{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Cahokia - Part 4: Prosperity and the edge of change","description":"Listen to the heartbeat of a city at its height: markets humming with exchange, fields golden with maize, and artisans shaping copper, shell, and clay into objects of beauty and power. This is Cahokia in its prime, where prosperity is everywhere, but so is the first tremor of uncertainty.\r\n\r\nThe city’s wealth rested on clever farming. Maize fields stretched out from every home, fed by the fertile floods of the Mississippi. People dug storage pits lined with woven mats and clay, keeping the harvest cool and safe. Raised beds and careful crop rotation kept the soil rich, even as more mouths arrived each season. All around, the rhythm of work was constant—digging, planting, harvesting, storing.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thecivilizationarchive.com/civilization/cahokia","author_name":"The Archive Network"}