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KSU GA History Exemption test Latest Update Graded A+ Georgia History: Overview ✔✔Georgia was the last of the thirteen colonies to be founded. Its formation came a half century after the twelfth British colony.Georgia was the only colony founded and ruled by a Board of Trustees, which was based in London. Mississippian Period: Overview ✔✔(A.D. 800 -1600), complex native cultures, organized as chiefdoms, emerged and developed lifeways in response to the particular features of their physical surroundings. Chiefdoms ✔✔a specific kind of human social organizati on with social ranking as a fundamental part of their structure. In ranked societies people belonged to one of two groupings, elites or commoners. Difference between elites and commoners in chiefdoms ✔✔rested more on ideological and religious beliefs than on such things as wealth or military power . Purpose of mounds in Mississippian culture ✔✔capitals of chiefdoms, platforms for buildings, as stages for religious and social activities, and as cemeteries. Hernando de Soto ✔✔The first European to explore t he interior of what is now the state of Georgia discovered the true way the Indians lived, but devastated their societies with the plague and small pox Spanish Missions ✔✔the primary means by which Georgia's chiefdoms were assimilated into the Spanish colonial system five friars were murdered in the Guale rebellion of 1597, northern missions were abandoned completely until 1604 . James Oglethorpe (1696 -1785) ✔✔Conceived of and implemented his plan to establish the colony of Georgia. Yamacraw Indians ✔✔a small band that existed from the late 1720s to the mid -1740s in the Savannah area. First led by Tomochichi and then by his nephew and heir Toonahowi, th ey consisted of about 200 people and contained a mix of Lower Creeks and Yamasees. Malcontents ✔✔Among those to voice displeasure with the policies of General James Oglethorpe and the Georgia Trustees during the early years of Georgia's settlement. Lead by: Patrick Tailfer Thomas Stephens. Tomochichi ✔✔chief of the Yamacraw Indians, principal mediator between the native population and the new English settlers during the first years of settlement Royal Georgia ✔✔The period between the termination of Tru stee governance of Georgia and the colony's declaration of independence at the beginning of the American Revolution Battle of Bloody Marsh ✔✔This event was the only Spanish attempt to invade Georgia during the War of Jenkins' Ear, and it resulted in a sig nificant ENGLISH VICTORY. English and Spanish forces skirmished on St. Simons Island