1. Vocabulary
Nomads-
Culture-
Artifact-
Prehistory-
Atlatl-
Horticulture-
Agriculture-
People who have no permanent home but wandered in search of food.
Customs, art, and social institutions of a group of people.
Items such as weapons, pottery, tools and jewelry made by man.
History that happened before written records.
Early device to throw a spear.
Garden cultivation
Large scale food production

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3. Nomadic people

6. Development over time

7. Development over time

8. Mississippian Indians- Advanced Agriculture

9. Mississippian Indians- Villages

10. Mississippian Indians
800 CE to 1600 CE (800 years)
Last prehistoric culture
Large scale farmers and mound builders
Traded extensively throughout North America-
Hightower Trail Middle School named for a Native American trail.

11. Mississippian Indians
Advanced weapons- tomahawk, bow and arrow.
Advanced farming- grew corn (maize), tomatoes, squash, peppers, potatoes.
Advanced tools (nets, baskets, pottery.)

12. Mississippian Indians
Chiefdom society- powerful chief
Hierarchical society with a small number of elites
Most people were commoners

13. Mississippian Indians
Mound towns – mounds are thought to have been for burials, celebrations, worship, and to show status (the higher in society, the higher the mound.
Evidence of belief in an afterlife- people were buried with their personal items and jewelry.

14. Mississippian Indians
Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville, Ga
Mound Sites in the Southeast

15. Mississippian Indians

16. Hernando DeSoto First European Explorer in Georgia was DeSoto
Explorers came for God, Gold, and Glory
Came from Spain
Starved thousands of Indians, killed and
enslaved many others

17. Hernando DeSoto Natives thought he was a god
He and his men wandered all over SE—given false info by Indians to protect their villages

18. Hernando DeSoto

19. Hernando DeSoto
He died and was “buried” in the Mississippi River so Natives would not realize he was a man

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Hernando DeSoto 2

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Hernando DeSoto

22. Spanish Missions
Church settlements created to convert Indians to Christianity (Catholicism)
Set up on barrier islands and Georgia interior.
Wanted to convert natives to Catholicism

23. Spanish Missions
Required unmarried males to work for them for several months a year
Caused Native American culture to decline (disease)
The Spanish moved farther south to what is now Florida.

24. Vocabulary
Mercantilism-
Policy to maximize wealth through finding cheap raw materials and creating goods to sell to other markets.

25. Vocabulary
Monarch-
A king or a queen

26. The French The Spanish The English (British)
Primary focus was on the fur trade. Mainly settled in the New Orleans area and Quebec area of Canada.
The Spanish
Wanted God, Gold, and Glory. Mainly settled in Mexico, Central and South America, and Florida.
The English
(British)
Wanted to pursue colonization to support mercantilism. Mainly settled in eastern Canada and eastern North America.

27. Jamestown First permanent colony created in the New World.
Initially unsuccessful, but then grew tobacco, rice and indigo to send back to England.
Led to more colonies being built to produce agricultural products.
Maryland (1632)
Carolina (1663- divided in 1712)
Georgia 1733