Cahokia exceeded London’s population in the twelfth century

Evidence

Cahokia supported a population of tens of thousands, larger than that of London during the same period. Other architectural monuments were sculpted in the shape of gigantic birds, lizards, bears, alligators, and even a 1,330-foot-long serpent. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 60

Categorization

• XREF: A dramatic scale comparison for the reader’s mental map of U.S. history — an Indigenous city outshining a European capital.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 60