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Why Did the Wendat Confederacy Collapse in the 1600s? - The Wendat Confederacy and the Great Lakes Trading World | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the early 1600s, between Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe, the Wendat built permanent agricultural towns that were more densely populated than any other Indigenous settlements north of Mexico. Organized through matrilineal clans and confederacy councils, they anchored a vast trading network that moved corn, copper, and shell across the continent. Yet within a single generation, epidemic disease and warfare shattered their world. This episode explores how the Wendat built this remarkable…
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