32b - evaluate the impact of European contact on Native American cultures including Spanish missions along the barrier islands, and the exploration of Hernando DeSoto
Native american cultures have changed since the contact or Hernando de soto. For example hernando brought the Indians guns horses and diseases. The horses and the guns were efficient and helpful but the disease wiped out many people because of the lack of medicine. Horses made travel way easier on the Indians and they could go longer distances without getting tired. Lastly guns made hunting and fighting off other Indians easier. Next the barrier islands were a group of islands on the coast of Georgia. These islands serve as protectors form natural and human disasters. When the Spanish came they first settled on the barrier islands and were missionaries so they spread the word or god.