| Regional tensions between chiefs from each of the three traditional confederacies have played a part. |
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| The English and the nascent Indian confederacies realized that cooperation would best serve their respective interests. |
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| Confederation facilitated joint warfare against other nations and confederacies in the region. |
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| The wicked are being bound up in bundles, bound up in trusts, in unions, in confederacies. |
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| The region was dominated by confederacies of Mixtec and Zapotec royal families, who constantly expanded their control through marriage alliances. |
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| Moreover, warfare, which was apparently frequent, produced larger alliances and even confederacies. |
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| Sudden dissolution of steppe confederacies therefore became much less likely. |
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| Immigrants arrived in colonial America seeking freedom and found it in the confederacies of the Iroquois and other Native nations. |
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| Among the Indians of the Northeast, there were several nations who formed alliances, including the Iroquois, Delaware and Creek confederacies. |
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| Further on you can enter an alliance and fight against other confederacies. |
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| Some systems were matriarchal, while others were based on confederacies of several nations joining together for their mutual benefit. |
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| Adams's Defence was a critical survey of world governments that included a description of the Iroquois and other Native American governments and other historical examples of confederacies in Europe and Asia. |
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| The Iroquois, who developed one of the great confederacies of American Indians, had a strong religious and mythological background for their folklore. |
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| The strenuous conflicts and alternate victories of two rival confederacies of statesmen. |
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| There were also several confederacies of tribes, dating to prehistoric times, that shared summer villages and fishing and hunting grounds near the coast. |
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| The Franks and the Alemanni may have been confederacies of peoples who had lived in these respective areas in Tacitus' day, though perhaps with an admixture of immigrants from the east. |
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| The Umayyads sought out alliances with various Berber confederacies. |
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| By that time the army included large numbers of troops from the major Germanic confederacies along the Rhine, the Alamanni, the Saxons and the Franks. |
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| To counter the threat, the Umayyads crossed the straits to take over Ceuta in 931, and actively formed alliances with Berber confederacies such as the Zanata and the Awraba. |
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