Mississippian Civilization

The main crops grown by the Mississippians were...

• Rice, wheat, corn

• Beans, wheat, fruit

• Maize, beans, squash

• Squash, maize, rice

How was Mississippian society organized?

• Chief was head of elites and commoners were lower working class

• Priests were at the top and everyone else was below them

• Warriors were in charge and everyone else was a commoner

• Everyone was equal

Which Indian group was the first to meet European explorers?

• Mississippians

• Paleo Indians

• Archaic Indians

• Woodland Indians

Spanish has three main interests in the New World

• opportunity, religious freedom, gold

• God, the queen, mercantilism

• God, glory, gold

• power and glory, opportunity, gold

Who arrived to the New World in the spring of 1540 with 600 soliders

• James Oglethorpe

• Hernando de Soto

• Hernan Cortez

• Native Americans

What was the main goal of Hernando de Soto"s exploration?

• Find gold

• Set up missions to train Indians to fight

• Begin his own colony with him as leader

• Look for natural resources to send back to England

What role did disease play in European exploration of the New World?

• Indians used poison darts to spread plague to the Spanish

• Europeans brought new medicines to improve Indian life

• Large number of Indians died due to no resistance to disease

• Indian doctors cured flu in Spanish soldiers

What impact did agriculture have on the Mississippian civilization?

• An increase in population

• Gave them more wealth and gold

• Attracted the Spaniards to their civilization

• Able to settle and establish a civilization

Mounds were used for ALL of the following EXCEPT

• religious ceremonies were held here

• to grow crops for their civilization

• the highest would be the home of the chief

• burial sites

Define prehistory.

• the journals of Hernando de Soto's men

• the time before history began

• the era of the Medieval period

• the time before written documentation