Georgia History

By mwestmoreland_carver
  • Sep 24, 1539

    Spain

    Spain
    -Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto
    - Soto had come to conquer and establish a colony in La Florida
    -Hernando de Soto's route through Florida.
    -Soto's expedition landed somewhere in Tampa Bay in May of 1539.
  • Sep 24, 1540

    Hernando De Soto

    Hernando De Soto
    -landed somewhere in Tampa Bay
    -After crossing the Aucilla River, Soto and his force pushed inland.
    -Soto and his men were likely too busy to participate in many holiday celebrations.
    -He died of a fever and his body was placed in the Mississippi river in 1542.
  • Sep 25, 1562

    France

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  • Sep 25, 1568

    Spanish Missions

    Spanish Missions
    -The Spanish missions in Georgia comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholics
    -The Spanish chapter of Georgia's earliest colonial history is dominated by the lengthy mission era
    -The Spanish missions in the Americas were Christian missions established by the Spanish Empire during the 15th to 19th centuries
    -Cheif doms

  • Mississippians Indians

    Mississippians Indians
    *Farming (cotton, corn, soybeans, rice), oil, textiles
    *A.D. 800 to 1600
    *Ate wild plants and animals, gathering nuts and fruits and hunting such game as deer,
    *Mississippian people also collected fish, shellfish, and turtles from rivers,
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