Around 900 CE, a Mississippian culture took root in western and central Kentucky by contrast, a Fort Ancient culture appeared in eastern Kentucky. Around 1800 BCE, a gradual transition began from a hunter-gatherer economy to agriculturalism. Based on the evidence in other regions, humans were likely living in Kentucky prior to 10,000 BCE, but "archaeological evidence of their occupation has yet to be documented". It is not known exactly when the first humans arrived in what is now Kentucky. Main article: History of Kentucky Native American settlement Some also theorize that the name Kentucky may be a corruption of the word Catawba, in reference to the Catawba people who inhabited Kentucky. In any case, the word aki means "land" in most Algonquian languages.
The closest approximation in another Algonquian language, Ojibwe, translates as "Land of Our In-Laws", thus making a fairer English translation "The Land of Those Who Became Our Fathers". Folk etymology translates this as "Land of Our Fathers". Others have suggested the term Kenta Aki, which could have come from an Algonquian language and were possibly derived from Shawnee. Mohawk kenhtà:ke, Seneca gëdá'geh ( phonemic /kɛ̃taʔkɛh/), "at the field"). The precise etymology of the name is uncertain, but likely based on an Iroquoian name meaning "(on) the meadow" or "(on) the prairie" (cf. In 1776 the counties of Virginia beyond the Appalachian Mountains became known to European Americans as Kentucky County, named for the Kentucky River. 4.2 Consolidated city-county governments.3.4 Natural environment and conservation.
2.4 Relationship Between Native Americans and European Settlers.Kentucky is also known for its culture, which includes horse racing, bourbon, moonshine, coal, "My Old Kentucky Home" historic state park, automobile manufacturing, tobacco, bluegrass music, college basketball, Louisville Slugger baseball bats, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and the Kentucky colonel. The state is home to the world's longest cave system in Mammoth Cave National Park, as well as the greatest length of navigable waterways and streams in the contiguous United States, and the two largest man-made lakes east of the Mississippi River.
The state ranks 4th among US states in the number of automobiles and trucks assembled. Today, Kentucky's economy has expanded to importance in non-agricuIturaI sectors, including auto manufacturing, energy fuel production, and medical facilities. Kentucky has also been a long-standing major center of the tobacco industry. Kentucky ranks 5th nationally in goat farming, 8th in beef cattle production, and 14th in corn production. Historically, it was known for excellent farming conditions for this reason and the development of large tobacco plantations akin to those in Virginia and North Carolina in the central and western parts of the state with the use of enslaved labor during the Antebellum South and Civil War period. It is known as the "Bluegrass State", a nickname based on Kentucky bluegrass, a species of green grass found in many of its pastures, which has supported the thoroughbred horse industry in the center of the state. Kentucky was admitted into the Union as the 15th state on June 1, 1792, splitting from Virginia in the process. The state's population was approximately 4.5 million in 2020. Its capital is Frankfort, and its two largest cities are Louisville and Lexington. The Commonwealth's northern border is defined by the Ohio River. Kentucky borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north West Virginia and Virginia to the east Tennessee to the south and Missouri to the west. Kentucky ( US: / k ə n ˈ t ʌ k i/ ( listen) kən- TUK-ee, UK: / k ɛ n-/ ken-), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States and one of the states of the Upper South.
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