Hernando De Soto

Hernando De Soto was born in the provinces of Extremadura, Spain the exact year is unknown but it is suspected that he was born in the year 1500. At a very young age he began his career of explorer his first journey was to travel travel the Atlantic Ocean. Then, in 1530 his old friend Francisco Pizzaro asked him to visit him in Peru and proposed him to help Francisco conquer the Inca Empire. Once they arrived to Cusco the capitol of the Inca Empire with they lies and tricks the both of them deceived and captured the Inca's Chief. The Inca's paid them lots of treasure and gold to retrieve their Chief, Francisco and Hernando took the treasure and gold and still killed the Chief. Just like Columbus they took Some Indian's as slaves and cause many death with diseases that were brought by them and lots of deaths caused by war. Hernando De Soto after this voyage was very wealthy and was named governor of present day Cuba in 1537 thanks to his success of bringing more wealth to the Spaniards. Yet, he decided to continue exploring his next expedition was authorized by King Charles I to conquer the southeastern part of the United States. After this other success he returned to Spain and was asked to explore and conquer present day Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Alabama, and the Mississippi. This is when for the first time in Hernando's life encountered failure. While intending to conquer all this land the Indians were much stronger and corned him by the Mississippi River. One night while trying to escape the Indians killed him and some of his men if they would not have killed him he would have died of the fever that was slowly weakening him, he died in the banks of the Mississippi River in 1542.