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Before contact with Europeans, the Haudenosaune, a group of nations in northeastern North America also known as the Iroquois, had been developing a form of communication, primarily for political purposes, that used wampum, a bead carved from seashell. ███

Intro topic · Wampum was a form of communication among Haudenosaune

Wampum = bead carved from seashell; Haudenosaune = group of Native American nations in North America also called Iroquois

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Traditional perspective · Wampum was primarily form of money

Author's perspective · Wampum eventually was used as money between Europeans and Native Americans, but it was more important for communication of sociopolitical messages

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Earlier forms of Wampum · Used for communication with deities or simple political messages

Two colors: white and deep purple. Two forms: loose beads or string of beads.

Haudenosaune Confederacy and influence on Wampum · Formation of confederacy led to deliberate use of Wampum for primarily political purposes

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Wampum belts · Combined string wampum to make icons that communicated messages

Example uses: encoded provisions of Haudenosaune Confederacy's constitution; recorded, stored, and made public record of government business.

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Wampum were not originally “strings of beads.” String wampum came later, after loose beads were used as wampum.

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This is the best answer. It captures the idea that wampum developed from objects with religious significance into a method for conveying sociopolitical messages. ((A) is very close, but definitively wrong because it mixes up string wampum with the earlier form of wampum.)

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The main point isn’t about wampum changing to become exclusively a medium of commercial exchange. It’s about the wampum’s development into a method of communicating sociopolitical messages. In addition, there’s no evidence that wampum ever became “exclusively” (only) a medium of commercial exchange.

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There’s no evidence that wampum’s use for communication originated in the events surrounding the Haudenosaune Confederacy. Wampum were used to express simple political messages even before the events surrounding the Confederacy.

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The main point isn’t focused on why historians have overlooked the communicative role played by wampum. The main point is about the wampum’s development into a method of communicating sociopolitical messages. (E) places too much emphasis on historians’ view and why historians had that view.

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