1. Today I am learning about the ancients of Georgia because these people had a great influence on how we live today.
Warm Up – Which countries explored the current east coast of the United States? What problems may arise because of competing and overlapping claims?

2. Hernando de Soto and Spanish Missions
Explorers to the New World

3. Hernando DeSoto First to record expedition through Georgia in 1540
In search of Gold and silver
Explored much of the South Eastern US
Came up through Florida with more than 600 men

4. De Soto (Cont.) Explored Savannah and Ocmulgee River Never found gold
He encountered the Mississippian Natives

5. 90% of the Native population vanished
Natives had never seen:
Guns, steel swords, metal armor, or horses
Only weapons Natives had were made of wood and stone
Many were killed in battle or just plain murdered
Many were made slaves

6. Natives Vanished Continued
1 in 3 Natives died from
Measles, chicken pox, small pox
Because they had never been exposed to these diseases
With so few Natives left, the Spanish began to import black slaves from Africa to work in the fields and mines

7. Spanish Settlements

8. Pedro Menendez
Spain sent him because they were worried about French success
He built St. Augustine
First successful settlement in North America

9. St. Augustine Menendez helped build missions Church outpost
The Friars (Church Missionaries work with the natives teaching them:
Read and write
Modern agricultural techniques
They also traded with the natives

10. Missions St. Catherine’s Island
Spanish called Santa Catalina de Guale
Georgia’s coast was called Guala named after the natives there

11. Quick Write (Summarizer)
Which European country had the most negative impact on the natives in either North or South America? Why? Explain.