Unit 2 - Stop Ya Lying

Choose the LIE concerning the Mississippian Era Natives?

• Built Mounds

• Food came from mostly hunting and fishing

• Organized into Chiefdom Societies.

Choose the LIE concerning the GA Natives ...

• Lived in large villages

• Lived in tiny nomadic villages.

• Lived in wattle and daub shelters.

Choose the Mississippian Era LIE...

• Settlements were seldom located near water.

• Settlements were often protected by palisades and moats.

• Diet was centered around Farming Food Crops.

Which one is a fat lie?

• The Cherokee lived in South GA and the Muscogee Creeks in North GA

• The Cherokee in North GA and the Muscogee Creeks in South GA

• Women are crazy and men are dumb.

Which one is the lie about DeSoto?

• Motivated by spreading the good new of Jesus Christ.

• Motivated by gaining great personal wealth.

• 1st European to enter Georgia.

Mercantilism -- Which one is a Lie?

• Colonies provide raw materials to the mother country which manufactures them for profit.

• Colonies manufacture raw materials and export them to the mother country.

• Mercantilism was a huge motivation for England's exploration efforts.

Choose the lie ...

• Spanish were mostly focused on mineral wealth (Gold, silver, copper etc.)

• Britain was mostly focused on establishing colonies for Mercantilism.

• Britain and Spain had the same approaches and philosophies to exploration and settlement.

Who is lying?

• England built missions to convert natives to Catholicism GA's Barrier Islands.

• Spain built the first city in present day USA.

• England did not care about the Native's Religion.

Pick the Falsehood

• Spain explored North America looking to establish a friendly fur trading relationship with the Natives.

• England establish colonies on the EAST Coast of America

• France explored and "claimed" the Mississippi Valley Region up into Canada.

Stop The LiE!!!

• European exploration caused dramatic and hurtful effects within the Native American cultures.

• European exploration and colonization was generally a good thing for the Native people.

• European exploration and colonization was the worst thing to ever happen to the Creek Indians. Some estimate 90% of the Natives died from European spread diseases.