Question: When Hernando de Soto marched through the area of Citico, what present day states did her march through?
Context: De Soto is a city in Jefferson County, Missouri, United States.  The population was 6,400 at the 2010 census and is part of the St. Louis metropolitan area.  The Van Metre family were first to settle in 1803.  The town was organized in 1857 and is named for the explorer Hernando De Soto, who claimed the Louisiana Territory for Spain.  De Soto was the city closest to the mean center of U.S. population in 1980.  The city celebrated its Bicentennial in 2003.  The city made national news on and after May 6, 2003, when straightline winds and a tornado struck. De Soto National Forest, named for 16th-century explorer Hernando de Soto, is 518587 acre of pine forests in southern Mississippi.  It is one of the most important protected areas for the biological diversity of the Gulf Coast ecoregion of North America.  It is a nationally important site for protection of longleaf pine savannas, pine flatwoods, and longleaf pine forests.  More than 90 percent of this ecosystem type has been lost in the United States.  The wet pine savannas support rare and endangered plant and animal species, such as the orchid Calopogon multiflorus, gopher frogs, and gopher tortoises.  These habitats also have large numbers of carnivorous plants, particularly pitcher plants; Buttercup Flats has an international reputation in this regard. The De Soto Heritage Festival (also previously known as the De Soto Celebration or De Soto Pageant) is an annual series of events that takes place in Bradenton, Florida, the location of Hernando de Soto's landing in Florida in May 1539. Jerez de los Caballeros is a town of south-western Spain, in the province of Badajoz.  It is situated on two heights overlooking the River Ardila, a tributary of the Guadiana, 12 miles east of the Portuguese frontier.  The old town is surrounded by a Moorish wall with six gates.  The newer portion is well and regularly built, and planted with numerous orange and other fruit trees. Its staple trade is in agricultural produce, especially in ham and bacon from herds of swine which are reared in the surrounding oak forests.  The town is said to have been founded by Alfonso IX of Leon in 1229; in 1232 it was extended by his son Ferdinand III the Saint, who gave it to the Knights Templar.  Hence the name Jerez de los Caballeros, Jerez of the Knights.  It was also the birthplace of the explorers Hernando de Soto and Vasco Núñez de Balboa.  On 10 May 1539, Hernando de Soto wrote in his will: "That a chapel be erected within the Church of San Miguel in Jerez de los Cabelleros, Spain, where De Soto grew up, at a cost of 2,000 ducats, with an altarpiece featuring the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of the Conception, that his tomb be covered in a fine black broadcloth topped by a red cross of the Order of the Knights of Santiago, and on special occasions a pall of black velvet with the De Soto coat of arms be placed on the altar; that a chaplain be hired at the salary of 12,000 maravedis to perform five masses every week for the souls of De Soto, his parents and wife; that thirty masses be said for him the day his body was interred, and twenty for our Lady of the Conception, ten for the Holy Ghost, sixty for souls in purgatory and masses for many others as well; that 150000 maravedis be given annually to his wife Isabel for her needs and an equal amount used yearly to marry off three orphan damsels...the poorest that can be found," who would then assist his wife and also serve to burnish the memory of De Soto as a man of charity and substance.  However, De Soto ended up dead in the house of an Indian chief at the headwaters of the Arkansas River near present-day McArthur, Arkansas, and died an impoverished defeated man, with "four Indian slaves, three horses and 700 hogs". Hernando de Soto Polar (or Hernando de Soto; born 1941) is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights.  He is the president of the Institute for Liberty and Democracy (ILD), located in Lima, Peru. Hernando de Soto (c. 1495 – May 21, 1542) was a Spanish explorer and "conquistador" who led the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States (Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and most likely Arkansas).  He is the first European documented as having crossed the Mississippi River. Citico Town and Mound, at the mouth of Citico Creek in current Chattanooga, Tennessee, was a major center of the Coosa confederacy, second in size to Etowah, at the time of Hernando de Soto's march through the area in 1540 ce.  In archaeological terms it is considered as part of the 'Dallas Phase' of Mississippian/Muscogee culture, c. 1300-1600 ce. The Walls Phase is an archaeological phase in southwestern Tennessee and northwestern Mississippi of the Late Mississippian culture.  Chucalissa is a Walls Phase mound and plaza complex located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River.  Other contemporaneous groups in the area include the Parkin Phase, Tipton Phase, Menard Phase, and the Nodena Phase.  The Walls Phase is the last prehistoric people to inhabit the Memphis area before the arrival of Europeans.  During the early 1540s the Hernando de Soto Expedition passed through the area, stopping at many villages along the way.  It is thought that the Walls Phase may be the Province of Quizquiz, a Tunican people encountered by de Soto on the banks of the Mississippi River. De Soto is an unincorporated community in Washington County, Nebraska, United States.  It was named in honor of the sixteenth-century Spanish explorer, Hernando De Soto.  De Soto was founded in 1855 and served as the county seat from 1858-1866.  During its heyday, the town hosted many flourishing new businesses: hotels, saloons, stores, newspapers and banks. De Soto National Memorial, in Manatee County 5 miles (8 km) west of Bradenton, Florida, commemorates the 1539 landing of Hernando de Soto and the first extensive organized exploration by Europeans of what is now the southern United States.
Answer: Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and most likely Arkansas