{"id":10751,"date":"2024-02-06T21:48:01","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/cahokia-ancient-americas-great-city-on-the-mississippi-by-timothy-r-pauketat\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T21:48:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T21:48:01","slug":"cahokia-ancient-americas-great-city-on-the-mississippi-by-timothy-r-pauketat","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/cahokia-ancient-americas-great-city-on-the-mississippi-by-timothy-r-pauketat\/","title":{"rendered":"Cahokia: Ancient America\u2019s Great City on the Mississippi by Timothy R. Pauketat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From page 3: Archeological findings about Cahokia \u201ccall into question some long held beliefs\u2014for instance, that ecologically sensitive, peaceful, mystical, and egalitarian peoples freely roamed the North American continent, never overpopulating or overexploiting their environments; or that these peoples were not subject to such\u2026human emotions as avarice, greed, and covetousness and thus could not have built cities or allowed power to be concentrated in the hands of elites.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Discuss how the archaeological findings about Cahokia address and \u201ccall into question\u201d the issues mentioned in Pauketat\u2019s quote above.  In your discussion, you must address\u2014at minimum\u2014the following four issues:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;\u201cEcological sensitivity\u201d<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Peace and warfare<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;The role and position of \u201celites\u201d in Cahokian (and by extension \u201cMississippian\u201d societies<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;influenced by Cahokia) society, how relatively \u201cegalitarian\u201d (or not!) these societies appear to<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp; &nbsp;have been.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Overpopulation and overexploitation of environment and resources.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Finally, in conclusion, you should answer the questions: What happened to Cahokia and to the Cahokians? Did the Cahokians \u201cpush the envelope\u201d too far, and why or why not?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From page 3: Archeological findings about Cahokia \u201ccall into question some long held beliefs\u2014for instance, that ecologically sensitive, peaceful, mystical, and egalitarian peoples freely roamed the North American continent, never overpopulating or overexploiting their environments; or that these peoples were not subject to such\u2026human emotions as avarice, greed, and covetousness and thus could not have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[28],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10751"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}