Unfortunately, this ingrained legacy of supremacy still permeates western culture today. The intent is psychological oppression; to establish racial and cultural supremacy. The constant undermining attempts at discrediting of any non-Eurocentric achievements and characters is demoralizing and dehumanizing to those especially in need of positive role models where there aren't many. For humanity's sake, as the torch bearer of civilization, our society must acknowledge and overcome this malice that underpins all inequality.
White settlers drove the advanced Cahokia civilization from the major city they built for themselves and then made up a bunch of nonsense about other ancient people building the city to justify the ethnic cleansing! Truly awful. What year did this all go down, Wikipedia?
The population of Cahokia began to decline during the thirteenth century, and the site was eventually abandoned around 1300[18] The area around it was not reoccupied by indigenous tribes[19] to 1350.[20] Scholars have proposed environmental factors, such as over-hunting, deforestation, and flooding, as explanations for abandonment of the site.[18]
Another possible cause is invasion by outside peoples, though the only evidence of warfare found so far are the defensive wooden stockade and watchtowers that enclosed Cahokia's main ceremonial precinct. Due to the lack of other evidence for warfare, the palisade may have been more for ritual or formal separation than for military purposes. Diseases transmitted among the large, dense urban population are another possible cause of decline. Many theories since the late 20th century propose conquest-induced political collapse as the primary reason for Cahokia's abandonment.[21]
Ahh, it was those white settlers in the year 1300.
I don't get the sense that that's what the headline is alluding to. It refers to the bias in interpreting the archeological evidence at the time.
> "The splendor of the mounds was visible to the first white people who described them. But they thought that the American Indian known to early white settlers could not have built any of the great earthworks that dotted the midcontinent. So the question then became: Who built the mounds?"
The article itself confirms what you found in wikipedia in the first paragraph:
> "Around 1100 or 1200 A.D., the largest city north of Mexico was Cahokia, sitting in what is now southern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Built around 1050 A.D. and occupied through 1400 A.D., Cahokia had a peak population of between 25,000 and 50,000 people."
Yeah, the headline is more "exciting" than I would have written, but that seems to be the trend nowadays. My skin is slowly thickening to that.
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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 19.3 ms ] threadUnfortunately, this ingrained legacy of supremacy still permeates western culture today. The intent is psychological oppression; to establish racial and cultural supremacy. The constant undermining attempts at discrediting of any non-Eurocentric achievements and characters is demoralizing and dehumanizing to those especially in need of positive role models where there aren't many. For humanity's sake, as the torch bearer of civilization, our society must acknowledge and overcome this malice that underpins all inequality.
The population of Cahokia began to decline during the thirteenth century, and the site was eventually abandoned around 1300[18] The area around it was not reoccupied by indigenous tribes[19] to 1350.[20] Scholars have proposed environmental factors, such as over-hunting, deforestation, and flooding, as explanations for abandonment of the site.[18]
Another possible cause is invasion by outside peoples, though the only evidence of warfare found so far are the defensive wooden stockade and watchtowers that enclosed Cahokia's main ceremonial precinct. Due to the lack of other evidence for warfare, the palisade may have been more for ritual or formal separation than for military purposes. Diseases transmitted among the large, dense urban population are another possible cause of decline. Many theories since the late 20th century propose conquest-induced political collapse as the primary reason for Cahokia's abandonment.[21]
Ahh, it was those white settlers in the year 1300.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cahokia
> "The splendor of the mounds was visible to the first white people who described them. But they thought that the American Indian known to early white settlers could not have built any of the great earthworks that dotted the midcontinent. So the question then became: Who built the mounds?"
The article itself confirms what you found in wikipedia in the first paragraph:
> "Around 1100 or 1200 A.D., the largest city north of Mexico was Cahokia, sitting in what is now southern Illinois, across the Mississippi River from St. Louis. Built around 1050 A.D. and occupied through 1400 A.D., Cahokia had a peak population of between 25,000 and 50,000 people."
Yeah, the headline is more "exciting" than I would have written, but that seems to be the trend nowadays. My skin is slowly thickening to that.