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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 organization with social ranking as a fundamental part of their structure. In ranked societies people belonged to one of two groupings, elites or commoners. 2 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 the 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
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