1. Answer the following in your Discovery Questions Section: What do you think historiography is? Think about the words geography, oceanography, and cartography. Hint: We did some historiography yesterday!

2. 1.Columbus thought the earth was flat. 2.Columbus thought the earth was spherical, and he wanted to convince others of this theory. 3.Most people during Columbus’ time period thought the earth was a sphere. 4.Columbus sailed because he loved feeling the sea breeze through his lovely, luscious locks.

3. 1.Columbus thought the earth was flat. 2.Columbus thought the earth was spherical, and he wanted to convince others of this theory. 3.Most people during Columbus’ time period thought the earth was a sphere. 4.Columbus sailed because he loved feeling the sea breeze through his lovely, luscious locks.

4. Historian Jeffrey Russell claims "with extraordinary few exceptions no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat“

5. To discredit the Catholic Church, some Protestants claimed Catholics taught that the earth was flat. Washington Irving’s book, A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. – Not a scholarly book – highly romanticized and added fictional elements including the Spanish commission’s scriptural objections to the spherical earth idea. The shape of the earth was not in question, but the size of the earth was debated. Why would the size matter?

6. Remember me fondly. Why do we have pictures like this? Translate into 8 th grade language: "History is the polemics of the victors." - William F. Buckley, Jr. "Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields." - Friedrich Nietzsche "The history of a nation is, unfortunately, too easily written as the history of its dominant class." - Kwame Nkrumah

7. Who discovered the Mississippi River? If you don’t know, look it up on your devices. Well, that was easy. Why do we have to learn things if we have Google?

8. What’s the key word here? Part of the reason we study history is to understand and analyze the events of the past in order to learn from our successes and failures. Remember that history is an argument that is influenced by our frame of reference.

9. Evaluate the impact of European contact on Native American cultures; include Spanish missions along the barrier islands, and the exploration of Hernando de Soto. Explain reasons for European exploration and settlement of North America, with emphasis on the interests of the French, Spanish and British in the southeastern area.

11. I.Hernando de Soto (in NA 1539-1542) A.First European explorer in Georgia B.Quest for god, gold, and glory 1. Brought disease a.Influenza and smallpox b.Decimated native populations (may have ended Mississippian culture) 2. Introduced pigs to the southeast 3. Body buried in Mississippi River C.Results 1. Failure – no gold and he died 2. Journals of three soldiers - only written account of Mississippian culture

13. What are some of the differences between Protestants and Catholics? What is proselytizing? To what extent should religions proselytize?

14. II. Spanish Missions (1568-1684) A.Missions run by Franciscan friars in Guale 1. Barrier Islands – St. Catherines, Cumberland 2. Okefenokee Swamp

16. II. Spanish Missions (1568-1684) A.Missions run by Franciscan friars in Guale 1. Barrier Islands – St. Catherines, Cumberland 2. Okefenokee Swamp B. Reasons 1. Proselytize the indigenous people to Christianity (Catholic) 2. Bring the indigenous cultures into the Spanish political and economic system C.Results (started to end in the mid 1600s. Why?) 1. Diseases killed many natives – no one to convert 2. Indian raids of the missions often supported by the British. 3. Last mission destroyed by pirate attack in 1684