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Did a Mega-Flood Doom Ancient American City of Cahokia?
National Geographic ^ | October 31, 2013 | Glenn Hodges

Posted on 03/09/2014 4:33:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

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1 posted on 03/09/2014 4:33:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Renfield; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...

2 posted on 03/09/2014 4:34:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

New Madrid fault?


3 posted on 03/09/2014 4:36:47 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: Darren McCarty

Not Bush?


4 posted on 03/09/2014 4:39:25 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: Darren McCarty

Knocked MY teepee down.


5 posted on 03/09/2014 4:39:26 PM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (HELL, NO! BE UNGOVERNABLE! --- ISLAM DELENDA EST)
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To: SunkenCiv

At its heyday, Cahokia was much closer to the meandering river. A bad flood could have been a problem but I think it would be like today...... a known problem

The old river courses are well mapped and certainly not where the river is today. A study of the maps would indicate if the old river bed was within the city.


6 posted on 03/09/2014 4:40:10 PM PDT by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: SunkenCiv

A big flood would certainly cause the population to scatter. Plus there’s the possibility of causing famine due to the loss of crops and cropland.


7 posted on 03/09/2014 4:42:56 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Darren McCarty; ClearCase_guy; UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide; bert

The fact that there wasn’t any oral tradition about what happened there, despite it not being a terrifically long time before European settlement, mitigates in favor of the idea that humans make the same mistakes and fail to remember or learn from the mistakes of others. :’)


8 posted on 03/09/2014 4:43:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

It’s an interesting civilization — and seems somewhat similar to the Maya.

The big question isn’t so much why it collapsed (all civilization do eventually) — but why it wasn’t eventually replaced with something at least as advanced.


9 posted on 03/09/2014 4:49:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: SunkenCiv

We grow the bulk of our food in a desert today and the grains that we grow across the plains and midwest are most susceptible to destruction due to cold (Think little ice age).

We should be diversified in both region and the crops we grow.


10 posted on 03/09/2014 4:50:50 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Didn’t we see a post about there being a layer of ash at Cahokia


11 posted on 03/09/2014 4:54:46 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: SunkenCiv

The last post at freerepublic suggested that fire brought down Cahokia

Epic Fire Marked ‘Beginning of the End’ for Ancient Culture of Cahokia, New Digs Suggest

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3128274/posts


12 posted on 03/09/2014 4:57:03 PM PDT by ckilmer
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It burned down, fell over, and *then* sank into the swamp. Epic Fire Marked ‘Beginning of the End’ for Ancient Culture of Cahokia, New Digs Suggest
13 posted on 03/09/2014 4:58:01 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The result of the pre-cursor to the Chicago political machine that spawned bh0


14 posted on 03/09/2014 4:58:25 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: cripplecreek

The world is one big-assed garden now; the main impediment to agriculture overall is the price of petroleum fuels.


15 posted on 03/09/2014 4:59:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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The world is one big-assed garden now; the main impediment to agriculture overall is the price of petroleum fuels.
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the primary impediment to turning the deserts green is the price of electricity.

I think that collapsing both electricity and petroleum fuel costs is being targeted over the next 15 years.

In any case, that’s what has to happen in order for there to be a successful 21st century—something that everyone gets.

Bill Gates talked about the necessity of collapsing electricity costs to at least 1/4 current cheapest coal/gas electrical generation costs back at at Ted conference back in 2010—because the the consequence of not doing so would cause terrible problems. (He said it would be impossible to do long term thinking if energy costs were not reduced.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaF-fq2Zn7I


16 posted on 03/09/2014 5:09:13 PM PDT by ckilmer
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To: ckilmer

The primary impediment to turning the deserts green is political. Electricity has nothing to do with it. TEDS is just another leftist rant forum, so it figures that “Anopheles” Bill Gates would rant there.


17 posted on 03/09/2014 5:18:08 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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Still, it’s interesting to note that Gates’ goal is the exact opposite of obama’s with regards to electricity costs...


18 posted on 03/09/2014 5:37:53 PM PDT by null and void ( Obama is Law-Less because Republican "leaders" are BALL-LESS!!)
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To: SunkenCiv
the massive Native American city known today as Cahokia sprang suddenly into existence. Three hundred years later it was virtually deserted...

Detroit is about 300 years old and it's lost over 60% of its peak 1950s population as sane people continue to flee from it. Destroying a city doesn't always require a natural disaster. Humans can do a great job of it on their own.

19 posted on 03/09/2014 5:39:21 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: ckilmer

Well the flood would have been real useful..... : )


20 posted on 03/09/2014 7:43:49 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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