why did the iroquois clear land outside of the wall?

Answer 1

What wall?

Answer 2

Like when they build longhouses they build walls around their village to raise crops and to spot approching enemies.

Answer 3

It was easier to spot encroaching enemies without trees to hide them. Also -- didn't they plant crops outside the walls?

Answer 4

oh so that's the reason why they clear the land outside of the wall"

Answer 5

oh never mind i didn't see that on my hw now I found the answer
we r doing a DBQ on the native americans, we are done with unit so as a project/essay we have to do a DBQ for hw we just have to finish in documents, we have 6 documents my teacher made the document packet
it's like she give us the 3-4 qs in each document and that like it have little info and some pictures
did 2 documents on class so for hw we just hav 2 finish it