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The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about a video on the Cahokia Mounds civilization. The questions cover topics such as what "Cahokia" means and what Native American group lived there; the total population of the city; what the mounds were used for and who lived on them; who lived on the tallest mound and their role in society; what crop was vital to the city's success; artifacts that suggest trading; what common people did and who profited from their labor; the purpose of structures like the American Wood Henge; burial practices; and theories for the civilization's decline.

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Questions on Cahokia Mounds

The document contains 15 multiple choice questions about a video on the Cahokia Mounds civilization. The questions cover topics such as what "Cahokia" means and what Native American group lived there; the total population of the city; what the mounds were used for and who lived on them; who lived on the tallest mound and their role in society; what crop was vital to the city's success; artifacts that suggest trading; what common people did and who profited from their labor; the purpose of structures like the American Wood Henge; burial practices; and theories for the civilization's decline.

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Date: _____________________ Name: _________________________

Video Worksheet on “Cahokia Mounds”

1.) What does “Cahokia” mean? What group of Native Americans lived there?

2.) What was the total population of the city?

3.) What were the mounds used for? Who lived on them?

4.) Who lived on the tallest mound? What was their role in the society?

5.) What did the Native population of Cahokia make the mounds?

6.) What building was on top of the tallest mound? What was its purpose?

7.) What crop was vital to the Cahokia city? What the result of its success to the Native

people that lived there?

8.) What artifacts were discovered that suggest the Cahokia traded with other Native

American groups?

9.) Who lived in the houses? What happened in the thatched huts? What did they coat the

wood that held their huts up?

10.) What did the common people of this society do? Who profited from their labor?

11.) What was the purpose of the “American Wood Henge?”


12.) How many circles made up the “American Wood Henge?”

13.) What was found in mound 72? What kind of people were buried in the mound?

Where were the common people buried?

14.) Why was the wall separating the city constructed?

15.) What theories are there presented in the video to why the Cahokia civilization ended?

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