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18 Cards in this Set
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Culture |
beliefs, traditions, music, & art of a group of people who share common experiences |
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Artifacts |
pottery shards, weapons, tools, jewelry, & other items made by people |
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Archaeologist |
one who digs into the earth and finds artifacts that tell us something about early inhabitants |
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Paleo |
very old;long ago |
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Horticulture |
Science of cultivating plants and trees |
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Tribe |
group of people who share a common ancestry and way of living |
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Anthropologist |
one who uses artifacts, cave drawings and oral history to study a group of people |
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Archaic |
old |
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Mound |
artificial heaped pile of earth, gravel, and sand for protections or concealment |
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Archaic Indians |
2nd oldest Native American culture in GA; nomadic hunters who hunted smaller game; credited with developing grooved axes, fish hooks, & pottery |
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Atalatl |
a pear throwing device used perhaps as early as the Paleo Indian period |
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Hernando DeSoto |
Spanish Conquistador who lead an expedition through the SE U.S.; credited as being the 1st European in GA. |
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Indigo |
a plant used to produce a blue dye |
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Mercantilism |
the English economic policy focused on exporting more than importing |
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Missions |
churches set up by the Spanish in hopes of converting Native Americans to Christianity |
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Mississippian Indians |
the last major prehistoric Native American culture in GA; known for being large scale farmers & mound builders who traded throughout North America |
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Paleo Indians |
the 1st humans in GA; nomadic hunters who hunted large game such as woolly mammoth & giant bison |
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Woodland Indians |
3rd prehistoric Native American culture in GA; credited for the development of the bow and arrow, pottery for storage, & intensification of horticulture, as well as building small mounds |
