Early People of SC I
According to the theory of mercantilism, the principal purpose colonies was to provide the mother country with
What are Raw Materials?
This is typically considered the earliest date for people living in SC.
What is 13,000 BC or BCE?
What are two goals that led explorers from Spain, France, and England to travel west across the Atlantic?
What is wealth and a shorter route to Asia
This is a protective wall around a Native American village made from tall sharp sticks.
What is a palisade.
These three areas helped launch the age of exploration and colonization?
What is technology, trade, and politics?
Why did Native Americans have different styles and types of homes?
Homes were built using the resources they had nearby.
These were two motivating factors that lead to the exploration of South Carolina.
What are new lands (Glory) and wealth (Gold)
Early Colonial settlements shared a common trait in that they were all located where?
What is near the Atlantic coast
This Native American tribe in SC lived in the coastal zone and were good at fishings.
Who are the Yemassee?
This tribe of Indians were known by alternate (other) name "river people".
Who are the Catawba Indians?
True or False: Europeans and Native had differing views on the ownership and usage of land. What did each of them believe?
True
Natives believed that no one owned the land that resources should be used responsibly.
Europeans believed in ownership by those that claimed it and that resources were available to be used.
What European countryl first settled in the Carolina Region?
What is Spain?
Identify the Spanish settlement on the SC coast that initially failed but finally succeeded for 10 years before being abandoned.
What is Santa Elena?
Native populations were espcially susceptible to this sort of widespread devestation that caused many in there population to die.
What are European diseases?
What three crops were considered to be the three sisters?
What are corn, squash and pole beans?
Identify the locations where the three tribes of SC lived.
Cherokee- Blue Ridge/ Piedmont
Catawba- Piedmont/ Sandhills
Yemassee- Coastal Zone
What purposes did mounds serve for Native Americans ?
They were used for burials.
Jean Ribault established this French settlement on the coast of SC.
What is Charlesfort.
The Mississippians used wattle and daub for this purpose.
What is build houses using river cane branches?
Where did the Cherokee people mainly live in South Carolina. Name the Zone or Region.
What is the Blue Ridge?
True or False: Many of the early European settlements of SC are located on the coast.
What is True?
Settling new lands is difficult. What led the French to abandon the Charlesfort settlement?
Lack of food and the struggle to stay alive.
This was the first Spanish settlement in SC although it was not permanent.
What is San Miguel de Gualdape?
Each Cherokee tribe was led by.
What are two chiefs?
What religion did the Spanish bring over to the New World during the 1500s?
What is Catholicism?