Complex sentence: Historians believe they did not understand how large the village was, the closest estimate we have is in thousands of lodges, containing approximately 7,000 warriors and 10,000 women, children, and others too old to fight.
Split into simpler sentences: Historians believe they did not understand how large the village was. The closest estimate we have is thousands of lodges, containing approximately 7,000 warriors and 10,000 women, children, and others too old to fight.