Was this native American land?
Yep!
Thats really cool. I didnt know they basically had cities. Also damn, thats pretty awful. Really makes you think what the colonizers did.
Interesting enough, these actually collapsed shortly before the colonizers came.
Ok, that is very interesting. Do we know why?
No, we do no at all. We don’t know it’s diseases (diseases wiping out 95% of the population of the Americas with only contact is not the way to think of it, most of the time disease death was in tandem with European slavery, loss of land and infrastructure that was directly caused by colonization.) We don’t know if it was flooding or drought, although we have seriously investigated both. We don’t know that it’s war, although they’re is evidence of conflict. We have absolutely no idea what happened in Cahokia, except that it collapsed more than 100 years before the Age of Discovery began.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
Surprisingly good resource. Recently studies were done looking at certain carbon levels in soil to see if there was evidence of crop failure, there isn’t. We just don’t know.
Thats fascinating, thank you!
You’re welcome, the Americas are a trove of archeological wonders on par with any of the world. We’re only just beginning to unlock the sheer scope of meszoanerican civilization lost in the rainforests.
Disease. Microbes spread faster than colonies.
Interesting, thank you
