What development resulted in increased population and permanent settlements among Mississippian Indians?
horticulture, planting and harvesting crops
the invention of the tractor
the invention of the wheel
contact with European explorers
What term is associated with the governmental structure that consisted of chiefs and or elites within the Mississippian tribe that held the chief and elites?
Autocracy
Chiefdom
Democracy
The Native American group that European Explorers first came into contact with were the
Archaic
Woodland
Mississippian
The Mississippian were known for their specific style of building ____________ which were used for burial or religious purposes.
straw huts
long houses
mounds
In the mid 1600's, Spain established Spanish missions along the coast of Georgia. What was the main purpose of the Spanish missions?
to civilize Native Americans and convert them to Christianity
to store all the gold they found in Georgia
to enslave Native Americans so they would fight against the British and French invaders
The decline in Native American population during the 1600s is most likely connected to what events?
mad cow flu
contact with European explorers
severe drought that caused a lack of food
The first European explorer that is noted to arrive in Georgia was
James Oglethorpe
Sir Francis Drake
Hernando De Soto
Spains 3 main reasons for exploration of the "New World" or North America was
to seize gold, to claim land, to spread religion
to find a new source of food, to claim land, to enslave Natives to make them soliders
to locate a trade route to Asia, to set up training bases for soliders, to spread religion
Mercantilism is the practice of
importing more than you export
buying more than you sell
selling more than you buy
France explored the "New World" hoping to
set up missions, seize gold, claim land for France
seize resources, harvest silk, enslave Native Americans to work on farms
make money from furs, practice their own religion, set up a new colony
The country seeking to colonize the "New World", seize new resources for making goods in the mother country, and spread Christianity was
France
England or Great Britain
Spain
The Native American word for corn is
maize
azule
corn
Mississippians built their homes using this __________ and their knives from __________.
bricks, gold
straw, diamonds
wattle/daub, chert
Mississippians created large towns near this resource for both health, travel, and economic reasons.
forest
water way
beach
Spain set up missions in a specific physical feature of Georgia. Where were these missions located?
on the fall line between Piedmont and Coastal Plain
in the Okefenokee Swamp, Coastal Plain region
Along the Barrier Islands in the Coastal Plain region