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GA's First People
Georgia's First People
Term | Definition |
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culture | refers to beliefs, traditions, and way of life of a group of people |
nomads | people that move around from place to place |
horticulture | planting & harvesting of food rather than gathering what grew wild |
palisades | sharpened poles or logs stuck into the ground standing up, making a wall |
chert | sedimentary rock used by the American Indians to make knives |
commoners | the work force in the Mississippian culture |
Elites | the power holders in the Mississippian culture |
wattle and daub | walls built of a network of interwoven sticks and covered with mud and clay |
maize | another term for corn |
effigy (mound) | a raised pile of earth used during early Native American cultures |
mission | churches set up by the Spanish in hopes of converting Native Americans to Christianity |
colony | a group of people in one place who are ruled by a country elsewhere |