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massachusett.json

1	{
2	"region": {
3	"name": "Massachusett homeland",
4	"geo": {
5	"type": "Polygon",
6	"coordinates": [
7	[
8	[
9	-71.4,
10	42.0
11	],
12	[
13	-71.4,
14	42.8
15	],
16	[
17	-70.82,
18	42.8
19	],
20	[
21	-70.83,
22	42.34
23	],
24	[
25	-70.62,
26	42.0
27	],
28	[
29	-71.4,
30	42.0
31	]
32	]
33	]
34	}
35	},
36	"eras": [
37	{
38	"name": "Massachusett reckoning",
39	"start": null,
40	"end": null,
41	"calendar": "Algonquian lunar calendar",
42	"usedBy": "the Massachusett people",
43	"description": "Lunar and seasonal reckoning of the Massachusett, the Algonquian people of the Massachusetts Bay area (the land the city of Boston was later built on). Their society was devastated by the 1616–1619 epidemic and colonization, but the Massachusett endure and their reckoning remains a valid way to answer the question. The polygon approximates their core territory around the bay; 'Algonquian' is a language family of many distinct nations, so this is the Massachusett specifically, not Algonquian peoples in general. The colonial Julian/Gregorian answers that also apply here are kept in the broader 'British North America' region, since that calendar history was empire-wide rather than specific to this place.",
44	"sources": [
45	"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusett",
46	"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algonquian_peoples",
47	"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Philip%27s_War"
48	],
49	"anchorEvents": [
50	{
51	"name": "the great dying (the 1616–1619 epidemic)",
52	"date": "1616-01-01",
53	"sources": [
54	"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1616_New_England_epidemic"
55	]
56	}
57	]
58	}
59	]
60	}