Hernando de Soto | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-02

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Hernando de Soto


00:01:03 1 Early life
00:02:09 2 In the New World
00:03:53 3 Conquest of Peru
00:06:38 4 Return to Spain
00:09:21 5 De Soto's exploration of North America
00:09:32 5.1 Historiography
00:15:05 5.2 1539: Florida
00:17:44 5.3 1540: The Southeast
00:20:55 5.4 1541: Westward
00:23:03 5.5 Death
00:24:14 5.6 Return of the expedition to Mexico City
00:27:01 6 Effects of expedition in North America
00:29:17 7 Namesakes
00:30:51 8 See also



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Hernando de Soto (Spanish: [eɾˈnãndo ðe ˈsoto]; c. 1500 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula, and played an important role in Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first Spanish and European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas). He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River.De Soto's North American expedition was a vast undertaking. It ranged throughout the southeastern United States, both searching for gold, which had been reported by various Indian tribes and earlier coastal explorers, and for a passage to China or the Pacific coast. De Soto died in 1542 on the banks of the Mississippi River; different sources disagree on the exact location, whether what is now Lake Village, Arkansas, or Ferriday, Louisiana.