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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 08:46:13 LCL
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- From: maurice <MJFORRES@SUVM.BITNET>
- Subject: Re: Oldest City in North America?
- In-Reply-To: Message of Wed,
- 9 Sep 1992 10:50:05 BST from <c.currie@CLUS1.ULCC.AC.UK>
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- On Wed, 9 Sep 1992 10:50:05 BST Christopher Currie said:
- >>
- >> Somebody else said:
- >> As a side note, Cahokia
- >> (Illinois), had - in the 13th century - a population greater than
- >> Paris.
- >>
- >I find this hard to believe. Estimates of the pop. of Paris in 1300 range
- >up to 250,000. How large an area did Cahokia cover and how is the population
- >estimated?
-
- The estimates I've seen place Cahokia's population at about 50,000 and
- its area at more than 5 square miles. (I think I remember that from
- one of Brian Fagan's books.)
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- maurice
-
- Maurice Forrester
- mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
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