Excerpt from Mounds of History
Elizabeth Kibler
The Mississippians living in and around Georgia first encountered European explorers in the 1500s.
Unfortunately, the Native Americans were not protected against the ailments brought by these
strangers. Illness put the already declining population on dangerous ground. In time, the populations
got much smaller. Later, some of the remaining members of the Mississippian culture formed the
Creek and Cherokee tribes.
A synonym for the word ailments in paragraph 8 is
ammunition.
armor.
diseases.
D)
languages.