Built by Spanish to covert Indians to Christianity
Missions
What are the three main reasons for European exploration?
God, gold, glory
What was the last prehistoric Native American group in Georgia?
Mississippian
What was the dominant crop that early Mississippians would go?
Maize (corn)
Who was the first European explorer in Georgia?
Hernando DeSoto
What is the belief that a country should export more than it imports?
Mercantilism
What was a type of home built by American Indians using interwoven sticks and covered with mud or clay?
Wattle and Daub
True or False: The Mississippians planted fields of individual crops.
False
Who was the first Spanish explorer to explore the New World in 1492
Christopher Columbus
What is the country moving to the New World in search of religious freedom?
England
What is built by American Indians to hold religious and social activities and sometimes used as cemeteries?
Mounds
What is a specific religion Spanish wanted to convert Indians to?
Catholicism
What is the country that believed it was their will to convert American Indians to Christianity?
Spain
What is a sedimentary rock which indians used to carve knives?
Chert
What is the deadliest disease brought over by the Spanish?
Smallpox
True or false: Hernando DeSoto didn't gold on his exploration.
True
What were the Mississippian culture work force known as?
Commoners