Prehistory
Define Prehistory
A time before records
During the Mississippian Period, many Native American groups set up large fields where they primarily grew what?
Maze
What 3 countries were apart of the European Exploration?
France, Spain, England
Who was the 1st person to encounter the Mississippians?
Hernando DeSoto
What did DeSoto intorduce to the Native Americans that they never had seen before?
Pigs
Bones, teeth, and shells are examples of what?
Artifacts
What was the oldest prehistoric Native American civilization?
Paleo
How was the Spanish conquering the Native Americans?
By enslaving them
Why did kings of France, England, and Spain urge exploration and settlement of the New World?
They wanted their country to acquire more land
What religion did the Spanish wish to change American Indians to?
Catholic
What is any natural relic, such as a sharks tooth?
Ecofact
What Native American culture had Cheifdom?
Mississippians
What is the main reason for exploration?
To build a great empire
What was the PRIMARY goal of Hernando De Soto as he explored the American Southeast?
Gold
It brought illness and caused the decline of the Native American population
True or False
The Early Archaic People hunted, lived in small homes, and traded with each other.
True
Which two prehistoric groups lived in permanent villages and grew their own crops?
Woodland & Mississippians
What is mercantilism?
Economic policy in which a country exports more than it imports
List the main reasons for Spanish exploration of the "New World"?
God, Gold, Glory
Spanish friars MOST LIKELY traveled to Georgia and the barrier island because they wanted to do what?
Convert American Indians
Artifacts from several different regions of the United States have been discovered in villages of Mississippian natives in Georgia. What does this suggest about the Native Americans of the Mississippian Period?
The traded extensively
Of the prehistoric tribes, I am considered the most advanced. Historians also believe I was the tribe encountered by early European explorers. I refined the developments of tribes before me allowing me to farm and trade on larger scales. And though the tribe before me contains evidence of mound building, I am known as the “great mound builders.” Who am I?
Mississippians
True or False
The American Indians living in Georgia at the time of European contact were considered civilized farmers who used simple tools to develop gardens were they grew the "three sisters" corn, beans, and squash
True
What eventually happen to the Spanish missions and why?
They fell and were abandoned after a pirate raid
What was the ultimate outcome of European colonization on the American Indians?
Native Americans were kicked off their land and die from diseases brought by the Europeans