Note: At various places in the rules, the term country is used generically to represent Great Power. OBJECT OF THE GAME As soon as one Great Power controls 18 supply centers, it is considered to have gained control of Europe. The player representing that Great Power is the winner.
Cahokia is a village in St. Clair County, Illinois, United States. It is part of Greater St. Louis, the metropolitan area around St. Louis. As of the 2010 census, the village had a population of 15,241, a decline from 16,391 in 2000. The name is a reference to one of the clans of the historic Illini confederacy, who were encountered by early French explorers to the region. Early European settlers also named Cahokia Mounds after the Illini.
For perhaps no more than 50 years, Cahokia had a population of about 10,000-15,000 people with established trade connections throughout North America. The latest scientific research indicates that Cahokia's rise and fall were engineered by immigrants who together refashioned the Native American communities for the greater Mississippian culture.