### q2 mound use near Cahokia reflected political power > Around 1000CE complex chiefdoms arose throughout the eastern portion of North America, with the seat of power organized around large mound complexes. Cahokia, one of the earliest, largest, and most well-known of these Mississippian chiefdoms, boasted over a hundred earthen mounds spread out over six square miles, and was estimated to be the home of more than twenty thousand people. Cahokia was part of the Early Mississippian period, and for the next seven centuries a cyclic pattern of consolidation, mound complex development, and then abandonment of the site characterized power ebbs and flows across the Southeast. I didn't realize that Cahokia was just one chiefdom of the period. Need to #articleseed more about this period, particularly because the whole "mound" idea works really well with Celtic fae ideas and scifi arcologies. #articleseed could write about the overlap between those three things. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01fgy1f2hbkd2g5nammprwjz9k) - [[Mississippian Culture#q2 mound use near Cahokia reflected political power|View in Vault]]