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Document-Based Question: Chapter One In North America there are variations in Native Americans in culture due to distinct ancient artifacts found and other belongings to each tribe. Although not all, many tribes did acquire their own religious beliefs, social structure, and economic organization. Historians know this information with help from mapping out trade routes and things left behind, such as the artifacts. The Iroquois groups, consisting of five chiefdoms or nations, are another instant where they “separated” themselves from others. Another very important model that is proof is vast structures like The Great Serpent Mound that were built and left behind. There were massive trade route networks that connected Indian people of many different communities and regions. When historians were able to conclude the origin of certain artifacts found at ancient sites, they could make a map of the trade networks because they knew where the item or whatever it may have been came from and where it went. There were many different ties between trade and cultures; this helps prove the point of Native Americans of North America possessing a varied and diverse collection of cultures because having items or making them that other tribes do not contain, means they must have a different way of life and the necessary items for living are differ. The Iroquois group is a near perfect model of the diverse native tribes in North America and how they create their own structures of life. The five chiefdoms or nations that are a part of the group are the Mohawks, Oneidas, Onondagas, Cayugas, and Senecas. They were known as the Iroquois Five Nation Confederacy, and had joined together during the nineteenth century during a period of constant violence. They joined together because of this because they did not want to be a part of the violence, thus making it warfare outlawed amongst its’ members. They separated themselves into a confederacy or culture. Different cultures left