History (timeline)
The Iroquois lived South of lake Ontario 10,000 years ago. Their longhouses dated back to 1100 but growing corn didn't start until the 1400's. They had five separate tribes, the Mohawk, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Oneidas that banded together in 1600's, and they made a treaty/confederacy. Later, in 1720, the Tuscarora tribe joined the nation this led to what is considered the world's first democracy. Warfare and conquest to expand their territory by 1680 to Kentucky and Mississippi river. These wars drove tribes from certain parts of land and forced them to move around more. 17 war captives were enslaved or adopted as Iroquois and called themselves Haudenosaunee and the French called themselves Iroquois. In 1600, there was less than 20,000 people for all tribes and then European epidemics in 1650 cut Iroquois population in half. However, Iroquois adopted and conquered enemies population, increased to 25,000 in the 1660's. The Iroquois and the Huron were two similar in their traditions, but did not get along well whatsoever. When Samuel Champlain, of France, visited the Huron, they were in the middle of a war with the Iroquois, in 1615. In 1648, the Iroquois went to Huronia armed with Dutch firearms, and destroyed the Huron's confederacy.