High Middle Ages · North America · Culture
1060
Cahokia's Monks Mound rising
1060
On the Mississippi floodplain, thousands of labor-gangs were hauling baskets of earth to raise the great platform mound that would eventually stand a hundred feet tall with a base larger than the Great Pyramid. The leaders of Cahokia commanded labor on a scale unmatched anywhere north of Mesoamerica. Atop the mound stood the chief's wooden residence, overlooking a grand plaza where thousands gathered for ceremonies.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.