The Beaver Wars – Rise of the Iroquois

Follow the Great Law of Peace to victory!

This game simulates the Iroquois Confederation’s conquest of the Great Lakes region of North America in the 17th Century.  The Iroquois were a warrior people with a highly democratic form of government, much like the Romans.  And like the Romans, the Iroquois launched a series of wars to control the trade of furs along the shores of a large body of water.  The Iroquois were so well organized that they almost succeeded in driving a European power, France, out of North America.  They did all of this in the face of devastating plagues.  There is a lot going on in this game.  To win, you must maintain support within the Great Council of the Iroquois Confederation, keep your English and Dutch allies on side, manage the gradual Christianization of your people, and wage a war against a major European power.  If you can pull this off, you and the Iroquois will succeed where Empires like the Inca and the Aztec failed: surviving contact with Europeans with significant amount of autonomy and political independence.