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Exploration Vocabulary and First Inhabitants
| Hernando De Soto | •A Spanish explorer who searched for gold in Georgia, and in the process his expedition lead to the deaths of many native Americans. |
| Spanish Missions | •The Spanish built missions to convert native Americans to Catholicism. |
| Palisades | •A strong wooden wall built for defense around a settlement |
| Artifacts | •An object from the past that contributes to our understanding of an earlier culture |
| Conquistador | •A Spanish Explorer and conqueror who sought to destroy and take over existing culture In the Americas in the 1500s |
| Horticulture | •The Science of cultivating plants and trees |
| Mercantilism | An economic theory in which government controls trade and attempts to transfer wealth from colonies to parent culture |
| Beringia | •An ancient land bridge that connected north America to Asia that People and animals used for migration |
| Wattle and Daub | walls built of a network of interwoven sticks and covered with mud or clay; used by early American Indian cultures and European settlers. |
| Mississippian Indians (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. |
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