Prehistoric Period
The practice of cultivating a garden
What is horticulture?
The 3 reasons Spain wanted to colonize the Americas.
What are the Gold, Glory and God (3Gs)?
Major Spanish explorere who explored parts of Florida and Georgia, killing many natives, and whose expidition ultimately failed.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
The peoples who once (and even still) called Georgia home including the Apalachicola, Cherokee, Muscogee, and Yamacraw
Who are the Native Americans?
A key reason France came to the Americas
What is the fur trade?
Name a type of disease that wiped out many Native Americans
- Smallpox
-Influenza (flu)
- Measles
The three sisters
What are corn(maize), beans and squash
Major economic policy of the English and key reason for colonizing
What is mercantilism?
Location of Spanish churches in Georgia
What is the Barrier islands (and the Okefenokee Swamp)
Walls built of woven sticks and overlaid with mud and clay
What is wattle and daub?
A policy of exporting more than importing
Which historic tribes did the Mississippians eventually reorganize into?
What are the Creek and Cherokee?
An early native culture, which settled the midwestern and southeastern parts of what is today the United States. They cultivated the land, gathered nuts and berries, and hunted. They existed as a group from about CE 800* to 1600 and then split into a number of Native American groups.
What is the Mississippian Culture?
What are missions?
Why were Mississippian towns often built near rivers?
For transportation, water, and fertile soil