The following is a list of the estimated populations of Cahokia and some major European cities during the thirteenth century:

City Population Cahokia 30,000-40,000

Cologne 30,000

Florence 90,000

Ghent 40 ,000-50,000

London 40,000

Milan 100,000

Paris 100,000

Venice 100,000

Hopewell.

While the Adena peoples lived in a rather limited area, their culture influenced a region that extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and from the lower Missouri River to the Appalachian Mountains. In some areas the Adena culture continued to evolve toward greater social and political complication. Around the first century A.D., some of these Adena societies developed into what archaeologists refer to as the Hopewell culture. These scholars have identified Hopewell sites in the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys and along the Gulf Coast and in Florida. Hopewell societies carried larger populations than those of the Adena type and were spread over a larger geographical...