Across
- 2. A Spanish conqueror of the Americas
- 3. site in Georgia where many Spanish Missions were built
- 5. exchanging tools, weapons, pottery and more with other tribes
- 13. Three Sisters, farming, hunting, fishing, gathering.
- 14. main job of the commoners
- 16. explored in 1540's from Florida west to the Mississippi with six hundred men in search of gold; discovered the Mississippi River.
- 19. Lived in Georgia from 800 C.E. to 1600 C.E. They were known to be mound-builders, created large cities, and were reorganized into the Creek and Cherokee after European contact
- 20. The biggest negative impact European exploration had on American Indians.
- 22. The art or practice of growing food small-scale farms and in gardens.
- 23. digging sticks, axes etc
- 25. fence made of posts, used to keep the enemy out
- 26. chief and priests; buried in mounds
- 27. Motivations for exploring the new world were finding gold, spreading religion, and earning fame and glory.
- 29. corn, squash, and beans
- 30. Reasons for European Exploration
- 34. religion of England
Down
- 1. Mississippians practice of large-scale farming that made them different from previous groups. It allowed them to settle down and create large communities.
- 4. farming technique used to create new fields every few years - requires burning large amounts of forest
- 6. A society that is led by a ruler of descent called a Chief. Very complex, elites a small number, commoners majority workforce
- 7. motivation was to establish permanent settlements, practicing mercantilism
- 8. These are churches/forts that were set up on the barrier islands and southern Coastal Plain by the Spanish. Their main goal was to convert the American Indians to Catholicism
- 9. religion of Spain
- 10. leader within Mississippian society
- 11. structures where religious ceremonies, burial grounds, chief lived in religious centers on top of them
- 12. disease that killed as much as 90% of Native American populations in the Americas
- 15. wandering from place to place
- 17. Scientist who studys past cultures by analizing artifacts
- 18. Dogs used by the Spanish to intimidate and kill Native Americans to enforce Spanish rule.
- 21. Bow and arrow, bone knives, clubs, sharks teeth, obsidian
- 24. Made of wattle and daub (mud or Clay) One bedroom, usually surrounding a mound and/or central plaza
- 28. An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
- 31. objects left behind that have given us clues about the Mississippians
- 32. commoners and slaves; buried in cemeteries
- 33. Towers, moats, and most importantly walls called Palisades.