Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "Cahokia: Mississippian Metropolis" video.

  1. I really enjoy discovering Pre-Columbian Native North American cities and towns, whose history tends to be overshadowed by Meso-American civilizations, such as the Mayans and Aztecs. Also how these cities, like Cahokia, grow and prospered from trade and construction, then later collapsed from political mismanagement, and possibly local resources depletion (like food) and climate change. Evidently, from their height of power, the Cahokians had metallurgy (copper smelting), gardening agriculture (perhaps by human labour alone, not also by draught animal input), gaming with formal rules (Chunkey) and local craft-guild style of pottery and lastly, but not least, alignment of sacred and monumental sites by astronomical observation. Whereas, this happened elsewhere for example in Neolithic North-West Europe, it's fascinating to see it similarly constructed by a completely different culture. This was a civilization as advanced as Bronze Age settlements in Europe and the Middle East.
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