Native American and Exploration Study Guide
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What are the 4 pre-historic Indians?
Which group was known for making pottery?
Which group began planting crops?
Why were the Native Americans able to develop larger groups and villages?
What was the reason for the Paleo Indians to move around so often?
What was the purpose of the mounds that the Mississippian people built?
What is the name of the mound in Georgia?
Who was known for raising livestock and farming with a plow and axe?
Where did the first Native Americans come from and how did they get to North
America?
What is bartering?
What were the 3 sisters?
How did making pottery affect the lifestyle of the Native Americans?
How did the change in diet of the Native Americans affect their life span? (beginning
from Paleo to Mississippian)
Who invented the grooved ax?
Why were the Native Americans able to start settling down in one area?
Who was the most advanced group of pre-historic Indians?
Why were Indian council houses built on rivers or streams?
Which countries colonized the New World between 1450-1600’s? (3)
What was the purpose of de Soto’s voyage?
What was the purpose of the Spanish Missions?
Where were the Spanish missions built?
What did de Soto bring to the New World that Indians have never seen?
What was a major factor in the decreased population of the Native Americans?
Where did the first European explorers settle in Georgia?
What type of homes did the Creek and Cherokee live in?
What was the purpose of the European exploration?
Who created mercantilism and what was the purpose?
Where did the Spanish first colonize in the New World?
What did the Europeans and the Native Americans fight over?
What was the “Invincible Armada”?
When the Spanish receded to Florida after trying to fight off the British, what was
Georgia used for?
Where did the French come in and begin to colonize?
Who was Christopher Columbus?
Who found the correct trade route to the Orient (India and China)?
Where was the first permanent settlement by the British?
What are indentured servants?
How were the Native Americans impacted by the European and Spanish exploration?