After c.e. 900, Mississippian centers formed extensive networks based on river-borne trade and shared religious beliefs, each dominated by a single metropolis. The largest, most powerful such system centered on Cahokia, located near modern St. Louis, Missouri, where about twenty thousand people inhabited a 125-square-mile metropolitan area.

Which of the following picture best describes the word “metropolis” ?

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