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nuxvomica

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6. Fascinating

Reply to TeamProg (Original post)

Mon Oct 10, 2022, 12:29 PM

Oct 2022

And Native-American influence on modern life may be even deeper as French missionaries may have brought their ideas to Europe, inspiring the Enlightenment.

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The framers borrowed from the Iroquois Confederacy and the Great Law of Peace [View all] TeamProg Oct 2022 OP

Wonderful! Who knew? Mme. Defarge Oct 2022 #1

Wow! They don't teach this in hs history classes. triron Oct 2022 #2

Geez, you're right. We should all write letters.. Seriously. n/t TeamProg Oct 2022 #4

Thanks for this. I had heard of it quite a few years ago, but not in depth & need to follow up.... Hekate Oct 2022 #3

And King George's Royal Proclaimation of 1763 was the main impetus for the Revolution TheBlackAdder Oct 2022 #5

Wow, intersting! n/t TeamProg Oct 2022 #7

Yeah, apparently the poachers, rapists & squatters getting killed didn't go over too well. TheBlackAdder Oct 2022 #10

Except, of course, that the Proclamation was largely ignored in the colonies. n/t malthaussen Oct 2022 #9

Fascinating nuxvomica Oct 2022 #6

Or developed the ideas independently. malthaussen Oct 2022 #8

Come on, man.. All you had to do was open the PBS story and in the first paragraph.. TeamProg Oct 2022 #11

The answer is simple. H2O Man Oct 2022 #12

Ah, documentation. malthaussen Oct 2022 #13