1) What was the Iroquois Confederacy? Who came up with the idea and why was it made?
The Iroquois Confederacy was formed in the 1570. The confederacy was a cultural and political union of five native American tribes or "The League of Five Nations" that resided along the Hudson River shores hunting and fishing for thousands of years. The Iroquois Confederacy was made up of the Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk peoples. Thus, the Hudson River was also their roots of transportations and connection to each other tribes; their hands made Elm bark canoes helped them to travelled and fished more effectively along the Hudson River. The most common aspect of the five tribes under the Iroquois Confederacy was that they lived in villages