Lesson 5
Completion requirements
Decision-Making in the Confederacy
Target
The confederacy did not just run itself! It was structured as an alliance between nations to allow for communication and decision-making by all clans. It did not regulate the day to day lives of individual clans. It was not a direct democracy like the democracy of ancient Athens. It was a representative democracy. In this lesson, you will learn how the Confederacy operated.
Introduction
Have you ever heard of consensus decision-making?
Watch this YouTube video: Consensus Building to see an example of how you might use consensus to make a decision about what type of ice cream to order.
This lesson will show how the Confederacy used it.
