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I just got back from the Cahokia Mounds and the scale of that place is wild
Standing at the base of Monks Mound, you realize a whole city thrived there 1,000 years ago with zero modern tech. Has anyone else visited a site that completely shifted their view on pre-Columbian North America?
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linda_gonzalez1mo ago
My cousin dragged me to Poverty Point in Louisiana last year and I was not ready for it. The whole place is these massive earthworks shaped like giant bird wings, built by hand over 3,000 years ago. It made the history I learned in school feel totally wrong, like we skipped the most interesting parts. Just standing there you get this weird feeling of how much story is completely missing.
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calebb571mo ago
That "weird feeling" you get is so real. I took a history class that spent three weeks on corn laws but never mentioned places like that. Makes you wonder what else they left out because it didn't fit the easy story.
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