242 – The Dawn of The Dawn of Everything (w/ David Wengrow)
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The Origins of the United States
North america is a great example, you know, before the arrival of europeans, clearly that's not what had happened. In fact, there was something that vaguely resembles most people's understanding an ancient agrarian state around the eleventh to thirteenth centuries of our era. Its epi centre was at a place called cohokia and what's nowa east saint louis on that bend of the mississippi and in illinois. But by the time europeans show up a few hundred years later, indigenous populations had completely abandoned the site,. Everything had stood for the whole regional system that was built around it had been dismantled. And instead, with very few exceptions
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