32b - evaluate the impact of European contact on Native American cultures including Spanish missions along the barrier islands, and the exploration of Hernando De Soto.
european CONTACT ON NATIVE AMERICAN
The earliest Europeans in North America were the Spanish never made any permanent settlements in the region that became Georgia. Spanish expeditions went from regions from the mid-1500s through the 1660s. The most notable mission was led Hernando De Soto. His documentation of Indian mission chiefdoms gives great descriptions about native life. The Spanish have included Catholic missionaries, like the Santa Catalina de Guale along Georgia's coast. These missions had a major role with the Native Americans of the region learning the colonial system. In the mid-1600s English settlers from South Carolina moved across the Savannah River and into northeastern part of Georgia, engaging the first in the slave trade of Indians during the British colonization of Georgia.
SPANISH MISSIONS ALONG THE BARRIER ISLANDS
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Most of Georgia's earliest colonial history is the mission era that lasted from 1568 through 1684. Catholic missions were the main reason Georgia's indigenous Native American chiefdoms changed into the Spanish colonial system along with the northern frontier of Florida.
Hernando de soto
Hernando De Soto was
the first European to explore the interior of present
day Georgia. During the course of his expedition, he entered the Georgia on two
times.He played a key
role on the conquest of the Incas in Peru, because he became very wealthy. Not
with riches, but with a socially elevated to a marquis, like Francisco Pizarro,
a Spanish conquistador. In 1537, Charles V gave him the right to explore and
conquer Florida. De Soto's sighted the western coast of Florida near Tampa, and
went up north to present-day Tallahassee.