Geography
The continent where the Mississippians lived
What is North America?
The amount of gods the Mississippian people worshipped
What are many?
The main leader of a Mississippian chiefdom
Who is the priest-chief?
The materials the Mississippians used to build their homes
What are wattle and daub?
The man who led the Spanish army that defeated the Mississippians
Who is Hernando de Soto?
The river valley where the Mississippian civilization was located
What is the Mississippian River Valley?
What the Mississippians valued above all things
What is order?
The 2 main groups that made up the Mississippian social structure
Who are the elite and commoners?
The main advantage of Mississippian intercropping
What is the ability to produce more kinds of crops in a smaller space?
The reason why the Spanish invaded the Mississippians
What is gold?
The modern-day country where the Mississippians lived
What is the United States of America?
The 3 "worlds" the Mississippians believed in
What are Upper World, Under World, and This World?
The modern-day game that the Mississippian game of chungke resembles
What is bocce ball?
The 3 ways Mississippians got food besides farming
What are fishing sea animals, gathering nuts and fruits, and hunting small animals?
The weapon the Spanish used that ultimately defeated the Mississippians
What is disease?
The eventual population of some Mississippian communities
What are 40,000 people?
The environmental beings that Mississippians had names for and great knowledge of
What are plants and animals?
How an observer would be able to tell if a Mississippian village held a lot of power
What are the most mounds?
How living on bluffs helped keep the Mississippians safe from enemies
What is the bluffs' tall height made it difficult for enemies to reach?
The Mississippians' initial response to the Spanish army
What is they fought them off?
The 4 reasons why the Mississippians settled where they did
What are nutrient-rich soil, temperate climate, plentiful rainfall, and flat land?
2 religious beliefs the Maya and Mississippians shared
What are worship of many gods and belief in afterlife?
The number of people who made up the Mississippian elite group
What are 3: chief, head of military, religious leader/priest?
The 3 main technologies the Mississippians were responsible for
What are crafting tools, developing a trade network, and traveling by water?
The 3 most common diseases the Spanish brought to the Mississippians that killed them
What are measles, smallpox, and chicken pox?