A Brief History of Mormonism and Joseph Smith …show more content…
Lehi’s two descendants comprised the two tribes; the Nephites who were religious and prosperous and the Lamanites, whom mormons consider the Native Americans. These two tribe were in constant war with each other, until Christ came, died and rose again. This period inaugurated a peace between the two tribes for about 200 years. Next, on 385 A.D a Nephite prophet named Mormon began to write down the accounts of his people’s history on a set of gold tablets. During a battle with the Lamanmites, Mormon was fatally wounded and his son Moroni took the golden tablets and became the sole survivor of the Niphites. 36 years later, Moroni added a few things to the tablet and sealed it in 421. This is what became known as the Book of