Social Studies Choice Board: Crossword

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  1. 2. The hierarchical social organization used by the Mississippian Indians, where a priest-chief held supreme power.
  2. 3. Highly organized, permanent villages located near rivers, where communities practiced large-scale farming.
  3. 6. The economic policy driving European colonization. Its goal was for the mother country (like England or Spain) to build wealth by exporting more goods than it imported.
  4. 7. A European empire whose main goal was to convert Mississippian Indians to Catholicism.
  5. 9. A Spanish conquistador who led the first deep European expedition into Georgia in 1540, searching for gold.
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  1. 1. Prehistoric American Indian group in Georgia known for large-scale farming and building earthen mounds.
  2. 4. A European power that were the main rivals of the Spanish and sought raw materials and trade.
  3. 5. A religious outpost established by the Spanish with the goal of converting Mississippian Indians to Catholicism.
  4. 6. Massive, flat-topped dirt structures built by Mississippians for religious ceremonies, burials, and elite housing.
  5. 8. European explorers unintentionally brought pathogens (like smallpox and measles) to which Mississippian Indians had no immunity, wiping out massive percentages of the population.