Regions in Georgia
The smallest region.
What is the Appalachian Plateau?
The weapon of choice of the Mississippian people.
What is the bow and arrow?
Three main European countries that explored North America--specifically the area of the United States.
What are England, France, and Spain?
First Spanish Explorer in Georgia.
Who is Hernando DeSoto?
Savannah and Brunswick
What are the two largest deep water ports in Georgia?
Region with highest population.
Explain horticulture.
What is the planning and organizing of a garden to get the maximum amount of food from it?
Main reasons for Spanish exploration.
What are God, gold and glory?
A church built to help convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
What is a mission?
Used extensively during the Civil War to move goods and people
What are the railroads?
Region that has fertile soil as its most important resource.
What is the Coastal Plain?
Explain how a waddle and daub home is built.
What is first you must create a crisscross pattern with sticks and then you cover the sticks with mud to make the walls of the house?
Main reason for English exploration.
What is to support the system of mercantilism in the British Empire?
The treatment of the Native Americans by DeSoto and his men.
What is they were mean and ruthless and killing many of them with their powerful weapons?
I-20, I-85, I-75, I-16, and I-95
Three regions that have the lowest temperature.
What are the Appalachian Plateau, Ridge and Valley and Blue Ridge Regions?
Name the 4 pre-historic Native American groups that lived in Georgia.
What are the Paleo, Archaic, Woodland, and Mississippian?
Main reason for French exploration.
Why did the Spanish missions fail?
They disrupted the way of life of the Native Americans and failed to convert them to Christianity.
Huge cargo complex and passenger terminals allow for extensive travel and trade.
What is the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport?
Why is the population of Georgia heavily concentrated in the Atlanta area (located in the Piedmont Region?) (A) Atlanta has a larger geographic area than the other cities. (B) The airport and highway systems make Atlanta a major transportation hub. (C) Agricultural areas are more productive than urban areas. (D) Other parts of the state have tried to maintain their historic populations.
(B) The airport and highway systems make Atlanta a major transportation hub.
Archaeologists think that prehistoric Indians believed in some sort of life after death because (A) tribal centers had churches and other symbols of worship. (B) pictographs and cave drawings depicted a spiritual afterlife. (C) legends of an after life were passed down from generation to generation. (D) burial mounds contained items such as tools, tobacco pipes, and weapons.
(D) burial mounds contained items such as tools, tobacco pipes, and weapons.
Spread of diseases, deaths of many Native Americans
Why was Hernando DeSoto's mission considered a failure? (A) DeSoto's men died of disease. (B) DeSoto did not find any gold or riches. (C) DeSoto traveled in the wrong direction. (D) DeSoto died before the expedition was finished.
(B) DeSoto did not find any gold or riches.
Signs of expanding national and international markets in Georgia do NOT include.. (A) building highways. (B) increasing foreign travel. (C) widening runways at airports. (D) adding container facilities at the Port of Savannah
(B) increasing foreign travel