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title: Monks Mound at Cahokia
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# Monks Mound at Cahokia

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[![Monks Mound at Cahokia](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/13898.jpeg)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/13898.jpeg)

## Image Caption

Monks Mound at [Cahokia](https://www.worldhistory.org/cahokia/). The present-day name comes from a group of Trappist Monks who lived nearby in the 18th and 19th centuries. No one knows what the mound's name was in antiquity when the [city](https://www.worldhistory.org/city/) of Cahokia flourished between c. 600-c. 1350 CE.

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