To contrast is
to tell how 2 things are different.
Read these two
articles on the Iroquois.
Then answer the questions, comparing and contrasting the information.
The Iroquois League was a union of Iroquoian-speaking North
American Indian peoples,
originally composed of the
Seneca,
Cayuga,
Onondaga,
Oneida, and
Mohawk Indians. The Tuscarora
became the sixth member of the league in the early 18th century. The
tribes
occupied a territory comprising what is now New York's Mohawk Valley and
Finger Lakes
region, bordered on the north by Lake Ontario and the Adirondacks and on
the south by the
Catskills and what today approximates the New York–Pennsylvania state
line. *
IroquoisIndians formed a federation of
tribes that once occupied most of what is now New
York state. From east to west, the tribes included the Mohawk, Oneida,
Onondaga, Cayuga,
and Seneca. The Iroquois called themselves the Haudenosaunee. This
name refers to their
dwellings and means we longhouse builders. The Iroquois became
famous as the Five
Nations, or Iroquois Longhouse. The federation was the most
efficient North American Indian
organization.
The federation was formed by
the early 1600's. About 1722, the Tuscarora Indians joined the
Iroquois League, which then became known as the Six Nations. The
confederation of states
that became the United States of America may have been patterned after the
league. **
1.
According to both articles, how many tribes belonged to the
federation in the 1600s?
2.
According to both articles, who joined the Iroquois in the
1700s?
3.
According to the first article, the Iroquois territory was
bordered by what to the North?
4.
According to the second article, after the Tuscarora joined,
how was the league known?
Remember:
To compare and contrast find what is alike and different.
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* Herrick, J. W. (2008). Iroquois League.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Retrieved March 31, 2008, from
Grolier Online http://gme.grolier.com/cgi-bin/article?assetid=0150190-0
** Powless, Robert E. "Iroquois Indians." World
Book Online Reference Center. 2008.
[Place of access.] 30 March
2008 <http://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Article?id=ar281880>.
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