Powell's De Soto And United States History In 1539, hernando De Soto had explored much of the land that was now the De Soto s generation was part of a European thrust into the new world that was http://xroads.virginia.edu/~CAP/DESOTO/congress.html
Extractions: First Extension: Eric J. Gislason In February 1836, the bloody battle of the Alamo sent strong signals that the United States had entered a period of increased westward expansion. Four months later, Congress ordered the second group of Rotunda murals. The amendment commissioning William Powell to paint Discovery of the Mississippi by Hernando De Soto, 1541 A. D. was tacked onto a congressional appropriations bill that reveals the political milieu in which Powell was considered. In debate on the bill, congress was primarily concerned with allocating $3 million to President James Polk so that he might conclude treaty negotiations with Mexico. Pennsylvania Representative David Wilmot attempted to add his famous proviso to the bill, which would have prevented the establishment of slavery in any lands acquired by the U.S. as a result of the war. Southern statesmen, many of whom had supported the war for the explicit purpose of extending slavery into the West, managed to eventually defeat the proviso in the Senate, although it did pass in the House. Serious contention between the North and South over the expansion of slavery was avoided when the Compromise of 1850 decided the status of lands seized by the United States during the Mexican War, allowing California to enter the union as a free state, ending the slave trade, but not slavery, in the District of Columbia, and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Law.
Hernando DeSoto's Trails Through North America They averaged 24 years of age; some had been in the new world before, some withdesoto. The next morning, desoto sailed back out the pass to explore the http://vaca.com/inset44.html
Extractions: Spanish Conquistadores wrote the oldest history we have of Native America, but told a different story than the one which students learn in school . Advances in technology have made it possible to track Hernando de Soto, Spain's crucial American Explorer, thru 14 States with native villages that are cities again today; along trails which we use as highways. Archeology was once thought to be the key to finding Conquest Trails (Brain 1985:xvi-xxiii in References , but that science has failed to do so in the sixty-odd years since ethnologists and historians surrendered that study to them. Little evidence of conquest has been found, mostly in Florida, all leading archeologists to very suspicious conclusions 1951, Ripley P. Bullen On the other hand, knowledge in other fields has flourished in the years since the DeSoto trail theory we learned was proposed in 1857 . We now realize that early trail seekers misunderstood Native migrations and Spanish portrayals of them, overlooked mariners tactics and failed to recognize "land paced" navigation and
European Exploration Of The Southeast And Caribbean. Spanish settlement in the new world was based on the removal of mineral wealth, 1998 hernando de Soto among the Apalachee The Archaeology of the First http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/outline/07-exploration/
European Explorers Searched for a west route to the Indies landed in a new world hernando desoto.Spain. 1539. Explored N.America s southeast and claimed it for Spain http://esd.iu5.org/LessonPlans/Explorers/europeanexplorerguide.htm
Extractions: European Explorers Teacher's Guide EXPLORER COUNTRY DATE VOYAGE OF EXPLORATION Vasco de Balboa Spain Reached the isthmus of Panama to see the Pacific Ocean Cabeza de Vaca Spain Explored N.America searching for the seven cities of gold John Cabot England Found the Grand Banks , a rich fishing area Pedro Cabral Portugal Reached Brazil claiming it for Portugal Samuel de Champlain France Explored New France and started the first settlement in 1608 Jacques Cartier France Reached the St. Lawrence River claimed land for France Christopher Columbus Spain Searched for a west route to the Indies landed in a new world Francisco Coronado Spain Explored N.America's southwest and claimed it for Spain Hernando Cortez Spain Conquered and destroyed the Aztec Empire claimed it for Spain Hernando Desoto Spain Explored N.America's southeast and claimed it for Spain Bartholomew Dias Portugal Sailed around the tip of Africa because of a storm Francis Drake England Attacked Spanish ships and sailed around the world Leif Ericson Norway Reached Newfoundland Vasco Da Gama Portugal Sailed around the tip of Africa and reached the Indies Henry Hudson Netherlands Claimed land around the Hudson river for the Dutch Louis Joliet France Teamed up with Jacques Marquetteand explored the Mississippi River Ponce de Leon Spain Explored Puerto Rico and claimed Florida for Spain Ferdinand Magellan Spain His crew sailed around the world proving it to be round Friar Marcos Spain Explored N.America
Tampa Attractions - DeSoto National Memorial of De Soto National Memorial is to commemorate Spanish explorer hernando de come to the new world with a license from the King of Spain to explore, http://www.tampaattractions.com/parks_desotomemorial.html
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Gigablast Search Results de Soto, hernando (2); Drake, Francis (6); Ericson, Leif (2); Henry the Navigator (6);Henson, Who Goes There European exploration of the new world http://dir.gigablast.com/Kids_and_Teens/People_and_Society/Biography/Explorers/
Free Essays - European History hernando desoto1541 explored the Mississippi river. Francisco Vasquiz Decornando-explored the grand canyon Spanish exports from the new world. http://www.freeessays.tv/c7158.htm
Extractions: EUROPEAN EXPLORATION 1400-1750 Renaissance technology allowed for overseas exploration. -astrolabe -sextant -new ships (caravel) -geometry for better map making Cartography- knowledge of how to make maps Cartographer-map maker Time Line 500 bc- southern Europe, North Africa, Mid East, Med. Sea. 1000 ad All of Europe, Scandinavia, India, South East Asia 1500 ad Iceland, Greenland, Coastal Regions of Africa, China 1600 ad Russia, South America, North America, Pacific Ocean 1700 ad Australia, Pacific islands, Asia, Arctic, Antarctic region Countries of Early Exploration Portugal 1420-1580, Portugal began exploring the east coast of Africa: Prince Henry of Portugal was very interested in ships and navigation. Henry had a naval Academy established in Sagres Portugal: Students of this school would go onto rediscover the Azure Island in 1432 Maderia and Cape Verde islands off the west coast of Africa. Christopher Columbus will be influenced greatly by these early explorations. 1488 ! Bartholomeu Diaz rounded the southern tip of Africa- "Cape of Good Hope" 1497 Vasco DaGamma explored the east coast of Africa He made contacts with Muslims traders of fine silk, porcelain and spices. *DaGamma also pioneered a water route to India. Spain 1480 Spain unites under the union of queen Isabella and King Ferdinand after defeating the last remaining Islamic strong holds in Spain. 1486 Christopher Columbus will approach Queen Isabella with his plan on reaching India by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Aug. 1492 Columbus sailed with three ships (Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria) he calculated the distance to India to be 700 leagues 2,200 naudical miles. *Columbus will land in the islands in the Caribbean and will claim them for Spain and name them Hispanida. Line of Demarcation (1493) competition between Portugal and Spain over territory in the new world brought the two nations to sign a Treaty of Toresillas to establish a line separating Portuguese and Spain territorie!
DeSoto State Park - The Welsh Caves explorer may have landed in Baldwin County, Al; long before hernando desoto . They maintain that he made three trips instead of one to the new world. http://www.desotostatepark.com/lol-welsh caves.htm
Extractions: The Welsh Caves There are five caves located side by side with three of them interlocking by openings connecting each chamber. They are protected by the cliff in which they are carved and by the only trail to them. The trail is 90 feet long and is so narrow that only one person can pass at a time. The trail averages in width two to five feet, and in some places is precarious and slippery. Historians say that Indians could not have built the caves due to the fact that none of the tribes of this area were familiar with the art of excavation. The legend and folklore of Prince Madoc (Mad dog) has it that the Welsh explorer may have landed in Baldwin County, Al; long before Hernando DeSoto. Is it possible that Alabama and Dekalb County were visited by explorers 300 years before Columbus discovered America? Many Historians believe so. One stated, "Madoc did indeed sail from Wales and did land on the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay. They maintain that he made three trips instead of one to the New World. None of the Indians who lived in the vicinity of these forts had ever worked in stone. Scientists who determine the approximate date of past events claim that timber found within the caves had been cut by axes centuries before the Spanish came to the New World. Historically, one author wrote that the caves were part of a dreadful war, and those who constructed them, to have acted defensively. The caves are situated so that, in ancient times, 20 men could have held off an army of thousands.
U.S. History - Pre-Colonial The web site focuses on hernando de Soto s exploration of America for a seaway to Interpreting Primary Sources European Discovery of the new world http://www.besthistorysites.net/USHistory_PreColonial.shtml
Extractions: Print this page Topic : Pre-Colonial Tip: Press ctrl and F (or apple and F on a Mac) to perform a keyword search of this page. To keyword search all Best of History Web Sites pages use the search engine located on the home page. This page was last updated July 19, 2005 The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame The Sport of Life and Death was voted Best Overall Site for 2002 by Museums and the Web and has won a slew of other web awards. The site is based on a traveling exhibition now showing at the Newark Museum in Newark, New Jersey and bills itself as "an online journey into the ancient spectacle of athletes and gods." The Sport of Life and Death features dazzling special effects courtesy of Macromedia Flash technology and its overall layout and organization are superb. Not just stylish, the site's content is excellent and engaging as well. For instance, there are helpful interactive maps, timelines, and samples of artwork in the Explore the Mesoamerican World section. The focus of the site, however, is the Mesoamerican ballgame, the oldest organized sport in history. The sport is explained through a beautiful and engaging combination of images, text, expert commentary, and video. Visitors can even compete in a contest! A must see for Middle School or 9th-grade World History teachers. Columbus and the Age of Discovery Created by Millersville University, this award-winning site is part of text retrieval system that contains over 1100 text articles from magazines, journals, newspapers, speeches, official calendars and other sources relating to various encounter themes. There is an index of articles and categories, links to Discovery Literature and related sites, and you can email the webmaster Dr. Tirado. A great site for research on Columbus and European contact with native americans.
Z + Partners - Weblog Peruvian economist hernando desoto, who leads the Institute for Liberty andDemocracy, If the new world is flat, how do we make a map of it? http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2005_05_18_zblogarchive.html
Extractions: This is an extraordinary look at the effect that the lightness of material has on construction, and how super-light materials can, will and must reinvent the way objects and structures are created. The natural world, and the ancient human world, are filled with elegant examples of engineering with lightweight materials - solutions that we are only now rediscovering. Written by Adriaan Beukkers of Delft Unveristy's Laboratory of Structures and Materials of the Faculty of Aerospace Technology, Lightness is full of terrific design inspirations, from Zen archers to Kazakh yurts.
Z + Partners - Weblog Peruvian economist hernando desoto, who leads the Institute for Liberty and for the coming world of ubiquitous computing. A new Deal for new York http://www.zpluspartners.com/zblog/archive/2004_03_10_zblogarchive.html
Extractions: This is an extraordinary look at the effect that the lightness of material has on construction, and how super-light materials can, will and must reinvent the way objects and structures are created. The natural world, and the ancient human world, are filled with elegant examples of engineering with lightweight materials - solutions that we are only now rediscovering. Written by Adriaan Beukkers of Delft Unveristy's Laboratory of Structures and Materials of the Faculty of Aerospace Technology, Lightness is full of terrific design inspirations, from Zen archers to Kazakh yurts.
MassLearns.com - Internet Resource Libraries European exploration and the new world Explorer Biographies. Giovanni daVerrazzano hernando de Soto Francisco Vásquez de Coronado Vasco Nuñez de http://www.masslearns.com/link_library.html?subject=NSS&sub_cat=42458&final=4245
European Explorers Page Explorers came to the new world in search of spices, gold, new land, and a new hernando desoto Franciso Pizarro Samuel Champlain Cabeza de Vacca http://www.nksd.net/schools/fces/oliver/explorers.html
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DeSoto Caverns But not until the arrival of hernando desoto and his Spanish expedition in 1540AD was the 2) to establish the first Spanish colony in the new world. http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/AL/al-3_h_riley5.html
Extractions: DeSoto Caverns DeSoto Caverns are nestled between the lakes and Appalachian foothills of north Central Alabama. These caverns hold one of the most concentrated accumulations of onyx-marble stalagmites and stalactities found in the United States. DeSoto Caverns have a long and interesting history. By the late 17th century, when the Europeans began to penetrate what is now the Southeast United States, the dominant Indian population was the Creek tribe, so named by the Europeans because they built their villages along the large number of waterways in the area. By tribal tradition, the Creeks place the birthplace of the Creek Indian Nation at the cave near the Coosa River now known as DeSoto Caverns. In December of 1796, Benjamin Hawkins, a United States Agent among the Creeks appointed by George Washington, told of the magnificent beauty of the DeSoto Caverns in his report to Washington, making it the first officially reported cave in the United States. During the era of Prohibition, DeSoto Caverns were pressed into service as one of the area's speakeasies, where moonshine and gambling were available to those not too fastidious about adherence to the law. Because of the shootings and fights that erupted on a continuing basis, the caverns became known in the 1920s as "The Bloody Bucket," and Federal agents closed them down. Even when Prohibition was repealed, "The Bloody Bucket" was not reopened.
Finance & Development, March 2001 - The Mystery Of Capital By hernando de Soto Why has the genesis of capital become such a mystery? Invisible Revolution in the Third world (new York Harper and Row, 1989). http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2001/03/desoto.htm
Extractions: Hernando de Soto Why has the genesis of capital become such a mystery? And why have the rich nations of the world not explained to other nations how indispensable a formal property system is to capital formation? Walk down most roads in the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, or Latin America, and you will see many things: houses used for shelter; parcels of land being tilled, sowed, and harvested; merchandise being bought and sold. Assets in developing and former communist countries primarily serve these immediate physical purposes. In the West, however, the same assets also lead a parallel life as capital outside the physical world. They can be used to put in motion more production by securing the interests of other parties as "collateral" for a mortgage, for example, or by assuring the supply of other forms of credit and public utilities. Clues from the past To unravel the mystery of capital, we have to go back to the seminal meaning of the word. In medieval Latin, "capital" appears to have denoted head of cattle or other livestock, which have always been important sources of wealth beyond the basic meat, milk, hides, wool, and fuel they provide. Livestock can also reproduce themselves. Thus, the term "capital" begins to do two jobs simultaneously, capturing the physical dimension of assets (livestock) as well as their potential to generate surplus value. From the barnyard, it was only a short step to the desks of the inventors of economics, who generally defined "capital" as that part of a country's assets that initiates surplus production and increases productivity.
CUSR1815 Matt Madeira The Columbian Exchange A Clash With Nature Pigs found more food available to them in the new world and increased The 13pigs that hernando desoto brought to Florida increased to 700 in 3 years. http://muweb.millersville.edu/~columbus/data/cwk/EXCHANGE.CWK
Extractions: CUSR1815 Matt Madeira The Columbian Exchange: A Clash With Nature It should no longer come as any great surprise that Columbus was not the first to discover the AmericasCarthaginians, Vikings, and even St. Brendan may have set foot on the Western Hemisphere long before Columbus crossed the Atlantic. But none of these incidental contacts made the impact that Columbus did. Columbus and company were bound to bring more than the benefits of Christianity and double entry bookkeeping to America. His voyages started the Columbian Exchange, a hemispherical swap of peoples, plants, animals and diseases that transformed not only the world he had discovered but also the one he had left. The Old and New Worlds had been separated for millions of years before this voyage (except for periodic reconnections in the far north during the Ice Ages). This period of separation resulted in great species divergence and evolvement. There were still many similar species, such as deer and elm, but Europe had nothing like hummingbirds, rattlesnakes, and hickory and pecan trees. The differences were even greater in the southern hemispheres; the biggest mammal in Africa was the elephant, and the biggest mammal in South America was the cow-sized tapir. Both of these environmental systems struggled for a delicate sense of balance and homeostasis but their collision in 1492 began a whole new time of competition and struggle for dominance. The environmental impact of such a collision is enormous and should be looked at as part of our understanding of the Age of Discovery. PLANTS Thomas Jefferson once said that, " The greatest service which can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture." By this standard, Columbus was the greatest benefactor of all time because by bringing the agriculture of the Old and New Worlds into contact, he added many useful plants to each. He enormously increased the number of kinds of foods and quantities of food by both plant and animal sources. New food crops have enabled people to live in places where they previously had only slim means of feeding themselves. Each new cargo brought new changes to the European diet, helping to improve eating and strengthening national identities with cultural foods. Some of the exotic new crops had humble beginnings; before the tomato made its way into European diets, it was a weed in the Aztec maize fields. The potatoes which hung on to Spanish ships wasn't welcomed at first either; Europeans found it unappetizing. But packing more calories per acre than any European grain, the potato eventually became the dominant food of northern Europe's working class. A few of the other plants that took root in the European palate was the cacao bean for chocolate, lima beans, corn, peanuts, pumpkins, squash, cashews, and pineapples. Sunflowers, petunias, marigolds and poinsettias also made their way to Europe. Several other plants of importance include quinine, tobacco, and sugar cane. Quinine is a malaria fighting plant found in the Peruvian Andes. Sugar cane is especially important because of its impact on slavery. While originally a European plant, it thrived in tropical American forests. Scholars estimate that each ton of sugar cost the life on one worker in the New World. As Indians perished, African slaves were ferried in. The slave-based plantation system that sugar started spread to Georgia and the Carolinas to raise rice, indigo, and cotton. While Europe was coming to learn to like the potato and tomato, the Americas were invaded by olives, coffee, vegetable seeds, wheat, lemons, oranges, lettuce and cabbage. These were great additions to the tortilla, bean, grub, insect eggs and pond scum that some Mexican dishes called for. Europeans also brought crab grass, dandelions, carnations, daffodils, and lilacs to the New World. Jacques Cartier, a shipmaster of Saint-Malo offered the Indians hardtack (a hard biscuit) and red wine when he first explored the St. Lawrence region in 1534 and 1535. As a result, the Indians thought the French ate wood and drank blood. ANIMALS For almost every purposemeat, milk, leather, fiber, power, speed, and even manurethe European domesticated animals were superior to those few species domesticated by Amerindians of either North or South America. Old World livestock, which had evolved in a somewhat rougher league than the New World's, often outfought, outran, or at least out-produced American predators. Free of the diseases and pests that had killed them at home, the European animals thrived and went wild. Their numbers grew to amazing proportions, providing mounts, meat, milk and leather more cheaply in the New World than the Old. Animals were so plentiful that by the 17th century, fences were not used for keeping livestock in, but for keeping livestock out. The islanders reasoned that only dogs walked on four legs and got along with people, but the two dozen mares and stallions Columbus unloaded quickly fit in to the New World's environment. Cortes's animals terrified the Aztecs, who thought each rider and his steed were one gigantic god. The "sky dogs" propagated quickly, and great herds ran wild from northern Mexico to the pampas of Argentina within a century. Before the Spaniards brought horses to America, buffalo were taken by stalking them on foot. They were then driven into traps or stampeded over cliffs. Tribes that existed for centuries on small game and nuts moved west to harvest buffalo, a task which the horse made easy. Pigs found more food available to them in the New World and increased their numbers dramatically. The 24 pigs that Diego Velazquoz de Cuellar brought to the islands jumped to 30,000 in only 16 years. The 13 pigs that Hernando DeSoto brought to Florida increased to 700 in 3 years. Descendants of DeSoto's swine are still devouring wild plants and animals. In the Arizona Ozarks they are called "razorbacks," and in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp they are called "piney woods rooters." These great amounts of swine guaranteed a steady supply of protein and fresh meat never before seen in the New World. Unfortunately, swine on the islands ate roots, snakes, grasses, lizards, fruit and baby birds and probably contributed to the extinction of hundreds of plants and animals never recorded. The only domesticated animals of the native people of North America were the dog and the turkey. South America domesticated guinea pigs, llamas, domesticated birds and dogs. Amerindians quickly adopted many of the new livestock and took advantage of the new animals. The horse populations were enormous in a rather short amount of time, but other animal populations grew quickly in the New World as well. DISEASE The decisive advantage of the human invaders of America was not their plants or animals, and certainly not their muskets and rifles, but their diseases. The aboriginal Americans had their own diseases, but the number of these was insignificant compared to the sum of those entering the New World. Early Americans already had tuberculosis, parasitism, and dysentery. The European invasion contributed whooping cough, smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, and diphtheria. Native communities lost between 50 and 90 percent of their people, most without ever seeing a white man. It is probable that a number of these diseases were exchanged from domesticated animals as well as human contact. Old World peoples had adjusted to these infections and were relatively immune to the diseases which wiped out native populations. The Valley of Mexico alone experienced 50 devastating epidemics between 1519 and 1810, including smallpox, typhus, measles, mumps, and pneumonia. The exchange of pathogens between the Old and New Worlds has been almost entirely one-way, as with the exchange of weeds and animals. Syphilis is sometimes called the "vengeance of the vanquished." It is one of the few diseases that Columbus's men took back to the Old World. A lethal epidemic swept Europe in five yearssome scholars believe a mild form of syphilis already existed in the Old World, but the American strain turned it into a virulent form. One of Columbus's largest impacts has been from a biological and disease-laden standpoint. Its victims have been manypassenger pigeons, Carolina parakeets, Wampanoags, Omahas, Modocs, Comanches, and so on. Among its most obvious beneficiaries are the humans who make up the great majority of the population of North America. PEOPLE The expanded supply of money paid for the European conquest of the Americas as well as the transportation and re-settlement of countless emigrants from the Old World to the New. Some were farmers, some were adventurers, but many of the people in the exchange were slaves. Columbus helped foster the human exchange when he took 500 native islanders to be sold as slaves in the Old World. He also demanded that everyone over age 14 be required to produce a hawk's bell filled with gold every three months. Those found without their quota were killed or brutally beaten, while those who fled were hunted down by dogs. In despair, hundreds turned to suicide. About one-third of Hispaniola's indigenous population of 300,000 were dead in the first two years, eventually leading to wipeout. This left the islands so depleted that black slaves were eventually shipped in from Africa by the million to toil on plantations. These American plantations were the reason for the Atlantic slave trade. Sugar cane's success brought some island populations to 20 African slaves for every one white person. The peopling of the New World by Europeans owes much of its success to the disease which wiped out native populations. Some scholars feel that the cheap milk, meat, and benefits of the new land would not have been sufficient in and of itself to have enabled them to accomplish a demographic and military takeover. Instead, the birth rate of the Amerindians plunge and the death rate soared. Every tribe shrank in numbers initially, and many of them died out completely. The human exchange is definitely a one-sided story. In summary, Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492 and opened a period of massive exchanges between the Old and New Worlds. The influence of his voyage on the history of commerce, religion, the nation-state, war, and literature has been immense. Columbus had not only discovered a new world, but his success had encouraged other discoverers and opened new windows to science and to all knowledge. The results of the Columbian Exchange come with mixed feelings, owing to the degree of death and slavery that such a clash of natures caused. But whatever the outcome of the two worlds "re-uniting," the Exchange was a major event in the process of discovery. Suggested Readings Crosby, Alfred W. The Columbus Voyages, the Columbian Exchange, and Their Historians: Essays on Global and Comparitive History. Washington, D.C.:American Historical Association, 1987. -. The Voyages of Columbus: A Turning Point in World History. Bloomington, IN: ERIC Clearinghouse for Social Studies/Social Science Education, 1989. Patrick, John J. "Columbus in the Curriculum: Ideas and Resources for Teachers of History in Elementary and Secondary Schools." International Journal of Social Education. 7.1
Wetumpka: Park History Competition among European nations in the new world for the most valuable AD 1540, Spanish explorer hernando desoto explored what is now Alabama. http://wetumpka.al.us/Default.asp?ID=147
EspanOle! Historia Y Herencia Juan Ponce de Leon, discoverer in 1513; hernando de Soto, 1539, National Park;The desoto Chronicles are an The Spanish Missions in the new world http://www.espanole.org/hist
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Hernando De Soto @ All About Explorers empire in the new world and for leading the first European expedition to reach De Soto is a member of the Explorer Hall of Fame, located in Genoa, http://www.allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/desoto.html
Extractions: Home Explorers A-Z Explorer WebQuest For Teachers ... About This Site (Click the map to enlarge) De Soto is chiefly famous for helping to defeat the Inca empire in the New World and for leading the first European expedition to reach the Mississippi River. Born in the province of Extremadura , Spain, as a boy De Soto dreamed of someday designing and manufacturing his own automobile. Even though he personally never lived to fulfill this dream, designs that he had drawn were found and later used as a model for the first De Soto automobile. Even though De Soto could have retired a wealthy man after collecting so much treasure during the Inca conquest, he decided to continue exploring. King Charles I of Spain authorized him to conquer and colonize the region that is now the southeastern United States. Off went Hernando on another road trip through what is now Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama, and Mississippi. He even crossed the Mississippi River but died from a fever by the banks of the Mississippi in 1542. De Soto is a member of the Explorer Hall of Fame, located in Genoa, Italy, but the vote to induct him was by no means unanimous, owing to the cruelty he often displayed to his enemies. One wonders if he would have been a nicer man if he had followed his dream to be a car maker instead of explorer.
