SS8H1 Unit 2 Vocabulary

Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition through the Southeastern United States; credited as being the first European in Georgia.

• Hernando de Soto

• Commoners

• Elites

English economic policy focused on exporting more than importing.

• Horticulture

• Mercantilism

• Chert

Churches set up by the Spanish in hopes of converting Native Americans to Christianity

• Chert

• Elites

• Wattle and Daub

• Missions

The sedimentary rock used by the American Indians to make knives.

• Maize

• Chert

• Horticulture

• Wattle and Daub

These are the workforce in the Mississippian culture.

• Elites

• Priests

• Commoners

These are  the power holders in the Mississippian culture.

• Elites

• Commoners

• Mississippian Society

The garden cultivation; important to Mississippian culture.

• Maize

• Horticulture

• Wattle and Daub

• Chert

This is another name for Corn.

• Chert

• Wattle and Daub

• Maize

• Horticulture

(800 C.E.-1600 C.E.) - the last major prehistoric Native American culture in

Georgia; known for being large scale farmers and mound builders who traded throughout North America.

• Navajos

• Mississippians

• Paleo

• Woodland

This is the largest swamp in North America; was the home to many Native Americans and

a location for Spanish missions.

• Barrier Islands

• Okefenokee Swamp

• Coastal Plains

• Piedmont