Extractions: This Site describes the 15 year Conquest of Native America. Hernando de Soto , Spain's foremost American explorer, spent years searching for a seaway to China in order to trade Spain's New World gold. He followed trails that we use as highways. His records describe villages along those trails at places that are cities again today. His effect on this continent would be enduring. Cabeza de Vaca 's eight years in North America, starting in 1528, set the stage for Hernando de Soto, and Coronado, to lead armies deep into America in 1540: Coronado from Mexico City, DeSoto from Cuba, Spain's New World "Ellis Island." Vaca was the first European to describe this continent, but only near its southern shoreline. DeSoto, at age 39, was rich from Incan gold and wanted to colonize North America. To do so, he planned to open a passage to trade Spain's New World fortunes with China, the finest market in the world. Intelligent Indians had told Vaca of a " Northern Sea " which DeSoto believed was the Pacific Ocean, the sea Balboa discovered beyond Panama, DeSoto's boyhood home.
Hernando De Soto, Spanish Conquest Of North America American exploration and Conquest by hernando de Soto, 16th century. To doso he planned to open a passage to trade Spain s new world fortunes with http://www.floridahistory.com/inset1.html
Extractions: ...led the first Europeans deep into America in 1540. At age 39, DeSoto was rich from Incan gold and wanted to colonize North America. To do so he planned to open a passage to trade Spain's New World fortunes with China, the finest market in the world. Cabeza de Vaca had reported a northern sea to DeSoto, who thought it was the Pacific Ocean. DeSoto's three year search for that sea, and enough gold to lure settlers to his planned American colony, was well recorded by his volunteers between Florida and Lake Michigan (the northern sea ), then on to Texas for escape to Mexico - Spain's nearest outpost on this continent.
Extractions: by Donald E. Sheppard An early draft of this article appeared in The Florida Anthropologist under different title. BEST FOR CONTACT NATIVE AMERICAN STUDY CLAYTON, LAWRENCE A. , VERNON JAMES KNIGHT, Jr., and EDWARD MOORE, PhD's, THE DE SOTO CHRONICLES , the Expedition of Hernando De Soto to North America in 1539-1543, in 2 Volumes, The University of Alabama Press, 1993. These books contain all known records of the expedition of Hernando DeSoto and his Army through North America. Extensive records were kept by three officers of that expedition; all are translated therein, along with all communications between DeSoto and the King of Spain. Other eyewitness accounts are also presented. BEST FOR PRE-CONTACT NATIVE AMERICAN STUDY DOCTOR LYNDA NORENE SHAFFER, PhD, Historian, Tufts University, Boston, 1992, NATIVE AMERICA BEFORE 1492 , the Moundbuilding Centers of the Eastern Woodlands, M.E. Sharp Press, Armonk, N.Y. Black , Glenn A. 1967 Angel Site , an Archaeological, Historical and Ethnological Study, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis.
Hernando De Soto Brief - Text Only hernando de Soto, Spain s foremost American explorer, To do so, he plannedto open a passage to trade Spain s new world fortunes with China, http://hernando-desoto.com/text-only.html
Extractions: FLA GA SC NC ... Escape This Site describes the 15 year Conquest of Native America . Hernando de Soto, Spain's foremost American explorer, spent years searching for a seaway to China in order to trade Spain's New World gold. He followed trails that we use as highways. His records describe villages along those trails at places that are cities again today. His effect on this continent would be enduring. Cabeza de Vaca's eight years in North America , starting in 1528, set the stage for Hernando de Soto, and Coronado, to lead armies deep into America: Coronado from Mexico City, DeSoto from Cuba, Spain's New World "Ellis Island." Vaca was the first European to describe this continent, but only near its southern shoreline. DeSoto, at age 39, was rich from Incan gold and wanted to colonize North America. To do so, he planned to open a passage to trade Spain's New World fortunes with China, the finest market in the world. Intelligent Indians had told Vaca of a northern sea which DeSoto believed was the Pacific Ocean, the sea Balboa discovered beyond Panama, DeSoto's boyhood home. Magellan had sailed that sea to the Orient when DeSoto was 21 years old, but lost his life on that long voyage. DeSoto wanted to build a port on that northern sea (at today's Chicago), then sail what he believed was a short distance across it to China. He planned to protect his "Northern Passage to China" from Mobile Bay, Alabama, which Vaca had visited and DeSoto planned to use as Spain's new commanding stronghold in America, home for his settlers and beacon for New World settlement.
Extractions: Spanish Conquistadors wrote the oldest histories we have of our continent, but told a different story than the one we learned in school. Advances in science have made it possible for us to track Conquistadors into native villages that are cities again today, along trails that are highways. Scant archaeological evidence once provided scholars grounds for "definitive" conquest route selection, but their evidence is very thin, and, if anything, their findings only add to the confusion surrounding Spanish Conquest (Brain 1985:xvi-xxiii; Bullen 1951, 1952 - See References for titles of authors' works appearing here). Scholars have, for centuries, misinterpreted 16th century terms and overlooked important tactics of ancient mariners and horsemen altogether. Moon phases and coasts were important during conquest. The King's agent with Hernando de Soto (and Cabeza de Vaca with Narvaez) described their trails through Florida in relation to the coast (Biedma in Clayton 1993:I:226, Vaca in his narration ). To the King of Spain and all professional seamen everywhere, the word "coast" meant navigable water nearest to land; a functional sea lane (the King in Clayton 1993:I:360). Scholars have used the shoreline of our shallow Gulf of Mexico for reference in placing Vaca and DeSoto's trails, but that shoreline lies at least fifteen miles inland of Florida's real "coast". "Definitive" Conquest trails have, therefore, been placed about that distance inland of their actual trail (both used many of the same trails through Florida).
Explorer Hernando De Soto David Park, Mungo - Speke, John Hanning. new world Explorers hernando desoto Arrives and Explores Florida_Learn about this ruthless explorer s http://www.archaeolink.com/explorer_hernando_de_soto.htm
Extractions: Explorer Hernando De Soto Home Arctic Explorers General Resources Antarctica Explorers General Resources Africa Explorers Behaim, Martin Cadamosto, Alvise da Dias, Bartolomeu Eannes, Gil ... Speke, John Hanning New World Explorers Albanel, Charles Balboa, Vasco Nunez de Brûlé, Étienne Cabot, John ... Vespucci, Amerigo World Explorers Cook, James Da Gama, Vasco Drake, Sir Francis General Resources ... Zheng He (Cheng Ho) Hernando de Soto _"...the reasons for and outcomes of..." de Soto's expedition. Hernando DeSoto's Trails Through North America _Learn how modern technology has been able to define the routes taken by de Soto and his army. There are many good images to accompany the informative text. Highlighted text will take you to further information. - Illustrated - From the Native American Conquest Corp. -
Kids And Teens Biography Explorers new world Explorers A fifth grade class relates the stories of the men who hernando de Soto, exploration Through Oklahoma - Describes de Soto s final http://www.ability.org.uk/kids_and_teens_biography_explore.htm
Extractions: Our Aims Services Stats ... Z Kids and Teens Biography Explorers Alonso de Ojeda, the Explorer - Excerpt from a 19th century history text tells the story of this Spanish explorer of North America. Australian Explorers - Provides detailed accounts of the men who explored and mapped the continent of Austrailia. Designed especially for elementary school students. Discoverers Web: Alphabetical List - Links to information on the lives of dozens of explorers. Discovery School's Exploration Station - Collection of articles based on World Book Encyclopedia, tell about the most famous Europeans who set sail for new lands during the 15th and 16th centuries. Early Explorers of California - Features short biographies of five of the first explorers of California. The Electronic Passport to David Livingstone - Short, illustrated biography created for middle school students. Explorer Poems - A fifth grade class shares the poems they wrote about the lives of famous explorers. Explorers - Fifth- and sixth-year students answer common questions about the lives of well-known explorers. Explorers: Can You Identify Them?
Hernando DeSoto hernando desoto was born around 1500 in Barcarrota, Spain. Explorers Book ofKnowledge Encyclopedia of world Biographies new Book of Knowledge http://www.asij.ac.jp/elementary/gr5web/c5r/explorer_reports/danielo.htm
Extractions: Hernando Desoto was born around 1500 in Barcarrota, Spain. On his second expedition in Peru, he found gold and was rich when he came back to Spain. In his life he met Pedro Arias, the governor of Panama. He also met his daughter and later on married her. He went on his last expedition in 1542. He died looking for gold on the Mississippi River. Major Achievements Hernando's first adventure took place when he was younger. He went on a treasure hunting expedition. Even though he didn't find gold or riches, the idea exited him. Later he joined Francisco Pizzaro on an expedition to conquer Peru. There he unexpectedly struck gold, became rich and went home to Spain. Years later he set off on his final journey to find more gold. He took many men and horses across the Atlantic Ocean and around the Gulf of Mexico. The party was the first European expedition to cross the Appalachian Mountains. They also discovered the Mississippi river. Country
Explorer Hernando De Soto 1. Where And About When Was De Soto Explorer hernando de Soto. 1. Where and about when was de Soto born? 2. What dowe know about his early life? 3. Where did de Soto live in the new world? http://www.lkwdpl.org/schools/emerson/desoto.htm
Extractions: 17. How was he buried? Why? WWW LINKS: Hernando de Soto's Conquest of America Encarta - the online version of the popular encyclopedia allows you to search their archives. Type your explorer's name in the "Find" line of their page. Biography biography An excellent source of detailed information about explorers, maps, the times they lived in and their technology can be found on the
ReferenceResources:FamousExplorers new world The hernando desoto Expedition hernando desoto, Spanish Explorer Cortes, a Spanish explorer, conquered the Aztecs in the new world? http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Explorers.html
Extractions: Explorer Sites A Treasure Trove of North American Exploration Accounts of European voyages and explorations to North America, from Columbus's Atlantic crossing in 1492 to the famous trip through the Northwest Passage by Roald Amundsen in 1905. Alphabetical Navigation permits browsing by explorers' names Discovery and Exploration Maps from the Library of Congress Documents the discovery and exploration of the Americas with both manuscripts and published maps. Many of these maps reflect the European Age of Discoveries, dating from the late 15th century to the 17th century when Europeans were concerned primarily with determining the outline of the continents as they explored and mapped the coastal areas and the major waterways. Also included are 18th and 19th century maps documenting the exploration and mapping of the interior parts of the continents, reflecting the work of Lewis and Clark and subsequent government explorers and surveyors. SEARCHABLE by Keyword or Creator Index
Classroom One of these children was hernando De Soto a man whose military career would ransom back in exchange for treaties and footholds in the new world. http://www.tennesseehistory.com/class/DeSoto.htm
Extractions: Charles I respected De Soto and his accomplishments in Central America and wanted to capitalize on Spanish footholds in Central and South America. He provisionally signed onto an agreement that made De Soto Governor of Cuba and also of the land known as Florida. The King gave him seven ships, but only four years to colonize the region. The King allowed him to select what people he wanted for the journey, but Charles I forbade lawyers from joining the venture as "they were known to cause trouble over land titles and the division of crown spoils."
Exploring Florida The Expedition Arrives Photograph Gallery A replica of the flag hernando desoto carried with him on the expedition. new world across the sea, Spanish explorers and restless conquistadores sailed http://fcit.usf.edu/florida/photos/historic/soto/soto1/soto1.htm
Extractions: Home Photos Historic Hernando DeSoto in America ... Site Map Gallery: The Expedition Arrives Click on a thumbnail photo to view the full picture. Actors portray Native Americans watching the arrival of Spanish conquistadores in Florida. Actor: "30th of May 1539. Today the week-long journey from our staging base in Cuba has ended alongside a large bay in La Florida. After years of planning our expedition has finally arrived." An actor rows a replica boat from the ship to the shore. An actor portraying Hernando DeSoto carries the Spanish flag to shore. A replica of the flag Hernando DeSoto carried with him on the expedition. Actors portraying Native Americans watch Spanish conquistadores land on their tribal land. Hernando DeSoto's first step onto Florida land. Hernando DeSoto alights onto a gulf beach. Carrying the flag of Spain, an actor portrays the landing of Hernando DeSoto in Florida. Narrator: "And so, from a natural harbor thought to be near Tampa Bay, began the first major European expedition of what is now the United States. Spain had first claimed the area only 47 years earlier when Christopher Columbus landed in the Caribbean." Actors portraying Spanish soldiers transfer supplies for the expedition from ships in the harbor.
Trailing DeSoto, Then And Now History books and classroom lessons tell of hernando De Soto s efforts to colonize passage through the new world to trade Spain s fortunes with China. http://www.gritsonline.org/desoto.htm
Extractions: Overview . This online thematic project provides classes an opportunity to conduct research in order to compare and contrast the world Hernando DeSoto saw in the 1500s to our world today. From the geographic data in DeSoto's journals and in Spanish writings of his time, researchers in 1996 were able to locate his trails as the harbors and mountains, rivers, and lakes "then" remain "now." Students in this project will use this information, located at http://www.floridahistory.com/ , as the main information source to develop their comparisons. However, students should also use other online as well as print sources for additional and comparative facts.
EXPLORER RESOURCES European Explorers in the new world . 3. Early Explorers hernando de SotoExpedition. 105. Spanish exploration and Conquest. 106. hernando de Soto http://www.pendergast.k12.az.us/schools/dmirage/Teacherpages/Moyle/explore.html
Extractions: RESEARCH ACTIVITY Many of the resources listed below are on individual explorers. I suggest that you check all sources not dedicated to one individual as well as checking out the sources dedicated solely to your explorer. Many of the sites on all explorers will give you a good view into your subject. Also, please do a search using one of the accepted search engines we have discussed. I would like for you to include the name and location of the search engine you used to find your own information on your explorer. Please forgive any duplication of sites which may occur in this list. Remember, you may only include pictures in your report if you check them through Mrs. M. first.
Hispanic Heritage Month WASHINGTON Sixteenth century Spanish explorer hernando de Soto De Sotofound no new world wealth and his fame has dimmed with the passage of time. http://www.defenselink.mil/specials/Hispanic2001/desoto.html
Extractions: Spanish explorers in Florida a decade before de Soto were told by the inhabitants that cities of immense wealth lay just beyond the horizon, probably in the hopes of ridding themselves of the strange interlopers. The natives de Soto met in his travels offered him fish, furs and freshwater pearls, but no silver, gold and jewels. But, they also told him of lands of wealth.
Oflikemind With about ten hardcore members they have been doing new world living historyfor the These include the Panfilo de Narváez, hernando desoto and Pedro http://mywebpages.comcast.net/calderon/oflikemind.html
Extractions: The Arizona Medieval Society "The AMS is equipped to make historical presentations covering the period 900AD to 1600AD (Europe) for schools, clubs, etc. throughout Arizona. We produce our own (functional) period clothing, armor and weapons, and some of our pieces are on interactive display at the Coronado National Memorial and the Cabrillo National Memorial. The AMS is a registered nonprofit organization that is entirely self-funded." Eric Thing
Explorers And Settlers The traditional supposed route of de Soto is in red, the new supposed route isin blue. General. European Explorers of the new world hernando desoto http://members.lycos.co.uk/brisray/th/thist3.htm
Extractions: HomePage Optical Illusions War Stories QBasic ... Indians Explorers (Page 1) (Page 2) (Page 3) (Page 4) ... Other Sites Terre Haute - A history and a guide This is my history and guide to my adopted home - Terre Haute, Indiana. Explorers and Settlers The earliest white explorers of Indiana were the expeditions led by the Spaniard, Hernando de Soto and later, the Frenchman, la Salle. It was generally supposed that de Soto only traveled as far north as northern Tennessee, but recent research by Donald E. Sheppard and others have thrown doubt on this. They believe that de Soto and his men got as far north as Lake Michigan. Assuming that this is the case, I've drawn heavily on the site to produce the material for this page. de Soto's routes The traditional supposed route of de Soto is in red, the new supposed route is in blue. For details of de Soto's journey through Indiana see Donald Sheppard's site. De Soto landed in Florida on 25th May 1539. After spending a couple of weeks setting up camp he and his approximately 500 men started their historic trek northwards. They reached and crossed the Ohio River into Indiana, near the point of the present day Evansville, on 8th June 1541. On 24th June they'd reached the site of present day Vincennes. On 29th June 1541 they reached the town of Pacaha, on the site of present day Terre Haute. Pacaha was also the name of the chief of the place. The following pasages are taken from Donald Sheppard's site :- Chief Casqui and his people had escorted de Soto from Vincennes to Terre Haute, improving the bridge at Busseron Creek along the way between cities on unfriendly terms. De Soto sent word to Pacaha that he was coming with Chief Casqui and expected Pacaha to be there when they arrived. Pacaha fled, instead, "with all his people out the other side of town. The governor immediately entered and together with the men of horse charged ahead where the Indians were fleeing; and at another town situated a quarter of a league (half a mile) from that place captured many Indians. And as the horsemen captured them they delivered them over to the Indians of Casqui, who, being their enemies, carefully and with great pleasure took them to the town where the Christians were; and the greatest sorrow they had was in not having permission to kill them."
Explorers Of The New World Explorers of the new world. Name hernando Cortez ;Francisco Coronado ; hernando desoto http://www.d261.k12.id.us/Technology/Goals 2000/WEB/EXPLORER/EXPLORWO.HTM
Opera Directory Da Gama, Vasco de Soto, hernando Drake, Francis Ericson, Leif Henry theNavigator Who Goes There European exploration of the new world http://portal.opera.com/directory/?cat=459630
