In this episode, we explore from ancient mounds to imprisoned governors. If you go and stand on the grounds right across the Mississippi River from present -day St. Louis, and you just look out at the landscape, you won't actually see skyscrapers. You'll see a mound of dirt. Right, a massive mound of dirt. Exactly. And it's roughly the same height from its base as the Great Pyramid of Giza. which is just wild to think about. It really is. And realizing that this structure has just been sitting there for a thousand years, it completely shatters the timeline most of us have in our heads about how urbanization actually happened in North America. Yeah, we tend to default to a very neat... linear progression. We assume it started with just empty wilderness and then European pioneers arrived and, you know, finally they built the industrial cities. But tha ...