Marked Onondaga

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Haudenosaunee Confederacy

Five nations, later six, of what is now New York State joined in a confederacy under a Great Law of Peace. When it was founded is debated, from the 1100s to the 1400s. It still exists.

Place
Onondaga · Ganondagan · Six Nations of the Grand RiverThe Americas
Laid out as
A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IThe Peacemaker and Hiawatha
  2. IIThe Great Law of Peace
  3. IIIClan mothers
  4. IVWampum belts
  5. VBetween empires
  6. VIThe Haudenosaunee today

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • The Peacemaker
  • Hiawatha
  • Jigonhsasee
  • Joseph Brant

Objects

  • The Hiawatha Belt
  • The Two Row Wampum

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1450 to now. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?