Cahokia (dec 9, 1100 – sep 22, 1350)

Description:

- Easter woodlands of North America
- Imported shells, copper, buffalo hide, obsidian
- Flat topped pyramids where civic leaders lived
- Ranked society w/ elite
- Gift giving w/ other societies to keep peace
- Mounds
- No money, economy by barter
- Center of trade network
- Burials of iportant people surrounded by human sacrifices of mostly women
- Missisippian
- Matrilineal

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