Cahokia Food
The Mounds of Cahokia
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100

Two possible reasons for their decline?

What is they are not one hundred percent sure but possibly lack of food (resources), climate change (floods and droughts) and people of the civilization fighting each other due to lack of resources?

100

The type of mound Mound 72 is 

Whats a Ridgetop mound?

100

Another name for lacrosse

What is stickball?

100

Used for a sort of calendar 

What is woodhenge?

100

Person who digs to find ancient artifacts (and spell it!)

What is an Archeologist? 

200

The 10 animals the people of Cahokia hunted (name three)

What  are beavers, turtles, deer, buffalo, fish, birds, racoons, quails, turkeys and/or squirrels  

200

The type of mound the people of Cahokia lived on

What is a platform mound?

200

Two purposes of the game Chunkey

What is training for battle and for FUN?

200

Stockade

What is a wooden wall built for protection?

200

To trade

What is barter?

300

Another name for corn

Maize

300

The largest mound in Cahokia

What is Monks Mound?

300

An inference that archeologists made about the people of Cahokia when they found lots of buried plates, cups and other serving items?

What is that they loved to have great feasts?

300

A civilization on the Mississippi River from 600-1400AD

What is Cahokia?

300

120

What is the number of mounds in Cahokia?

400

Goosefoot

What is a popular crop?
400

Mound 72 was made for...

What are burials?


400

Minimum number of people to play Chunkey?  Name them

What is three?  (stone roller, two spear throwers)

400

Made of clay, dirt and soil

What are mounds?

400

Collinsville, Illinois

Where is Cahokia located?


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