Question

Choose the statements that CORRECTLY describe life for American Indians living in Georgia at the time of European contact.

Mississippian American Indians were living in Georgia when Europeans arrived.
Early Native American cultures were based largely on a form of democracy.
American Indians in Georgia were farmers.
Most American Indians in Georgia were living in teepees when Europeans arrived.
American Indians were introduced to tobacco when Europeans arrived.
American Indians had established trade networks between villages by the time Europeans arrived.

Answer 1

Mississippian American Indians were living in Georgia when Europeans arrived.

American Indians in Georgia were farmers.

American Indians had established trade networks between villages by the time Europeans arrived.

The Mississippian culture, and specifically the South Appalachian Mississippian, was the civilization found in modern-day Georgia before the arrival of the Europeans. This culture has large settlements where they practiced agriculture that was mainly based on maize. They also had extensive trade routes that reached west to the Rockies, south to the Gulf of Mexico, east to the Atlantic Ocean and north to the Great Lakes.