Reasons for European Exploration and Settlement
As a Catholic nation, one of Spain's priorities was to do this.......
What was to convert American Indian people to Catholicism?
Much of what we know about early American Indian people comes from finding and studying these things from their lives.
What are artifacts?
These people were the first to arrive in what is now Geogia.
Who were Spanish explorers and missionaries.
By 1663, England was ready to challenge this country's authority in the southeast.
What is Spain?
The Charter of 1732 gave trustees the right to govern the Georgia Colony for 21 years.
What is the Trustee Period?
Europeans believed a nation's greatness and glory was based upon this.
What is the strength and size of its empire?
People who are said to be the first to live in a particular region or environment.
What is indigenous?
This person led a Spanish expedition into Georgia in 1540.
Who is Hernando de Soto?
From the Carolina Colony, this person hoped to remove Spain from the Southeast entirely.
Who is King Charles II?
This person remained the colony's unofficial leader.
Who is Oglethorpe?
The stories of Italian explorer, Marco Polo, encouraged Spain to seek out great riches of these types in the New World.
What is gold and silver?
These are the traditions, skills, arts, beliefs, and other ways of life of a certain people at a certain time.
What is culture?
This was the first permanent Spanish settlement in North America.
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
Colonists in the Carolina Colony began producing _____, which quickly began producing a lot of wealth for England.
What are cash crops?
Adult male colonists were given 50 acres of land plus an additional 50 acres for every servant or family member. But none could own more than 500 acres.
What are limits on land?
England saw potential in the vast natural resources in the New World. Unlike Spain, England wanted to do this with those resources.
What is produce more goods it could sell for a profit?
The Mississippian civilization was organized into this type of society centered around chiefdoms.
What is a hierarchical society?
This was one of the most devastating diseases that spread through the American Indian villages that had contact with Spain's conquistadors.
What is smallpox?
English traders made allies of many of the American Indian tribes in the region by trading this with them and arming the American Indian people against the Spanish settlers.
What are firearms?
Land in the Georgia Colony could only be passed down to a son-not a daughter. If a man had no sons, the land could be given away.
What are inheritance laws?
As the population in Europe grew, hunger was common because of this.
What is the scarcity of land and food.
The two classes of Mississippian society were elites and commoners. The commoners grew the food, made crafts, and served as the warriors and laborers. These people formed the elite class that enjoyed power and a more comfortable lifestyle.
Who were the priest-chiefs and members of their families?
Spanish missionaries opened missions on several of these that are now part of Georgia, including St. Catherines, Cumberland, St. Simons, and Sapelo.
What are barrier islands?
In the 1680s, this contributed to the end of the mission system in Georgia.
What was English-supported American Indian attacks on Spanish missions?
The Charter of 1732 prohibited the practice of Catholicism. The trustees also established a rule to prevent Jewish settlement in Georgia.
What are Inheritance Laws?