The History of Cahokia

The success and extent of Cahokia seems to have been based on the arrival of widespread cultivation of maize in the North of Americas. Mays along with squash and beans were now becoming the dominant crops and were massively successful. The Algonquian-speaking peoples occupied coastal regions from Newfoundland to Great Lakes but also around the Great Lakes. Muscogian people lived in Georgia and Florida, mainly inland from the St Lawrence Valley southwards towards Virginia and Carolinas. Suenet (pronounced "sneak") was a linguistically diverse set of nations and I think broadly four groups occupy this area. It is thought that by around 1300 to 1350 Cahokia was abandoned. At the