CLASSIC: How did North America's largest city disappear? The Mysterious Collapse of Cahokia

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🗓️ 9 August 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Four centuries before Columbus reached the western hemisphere, Cahokia was a prosperous pre-American city with a population similar to London’s. In fact, it was probably the largest North American city north of Mexico at that time. While Cahokia was a major population centre around AD1050, by 1350 it was largely abandoned by its people – and, even today, no one is sure why.

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0:00.0	So true story 400 years before Christobale Cologne reached what he thought was India.
0:07.8	You mean Christopher Columbus? Yeah old Christoball before he did reach this for centuries and centuries, there was a city with a population similar in size to London, right here in North America.
0:21.6	Say what?
0:23.0	That's right.
0:24.0	Kahokia, not to be confused with the cloika.
0:27.0	That's different.
0:28.0	Yes.
0:29.0	Very different, very different things.
0:31.0	And that's our classic episode for this evening folks.
0:35.0	Once upon a time, Kuekha was a enormously prosperous city,
0:40.6	the largest of its sort, north of Mexico on this continent and do you guys remember
0:46.8	this episode? Well I just remember that people seem to have abandoned it and we're not
0:51.6	really sure why it's very
0:53.4	very mysterious to me like the entire episode is one big mystery.
0:58.0	It's very cracketoa.
0:59.0	By 1350 CE, this metropolis was largely abandoned.
1:05.0	What happened?
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1:13.4	We cloned his voice using AI. In 2001, police say I killed my family and rigged my house
1:19.8	to explode before escaping into the wilderness.
1:22.1	Police believe he is alive and hiding somewhere.
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