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Hernando de Soto was born around the late 1490s or early 1500s in Extremadura, Spain, to parents who were both hidalgos, nobility of modest means.The region was poor and many people struggled to survive; young people looked for ways to seek their fortune elsewhere.
A map showing the Cofitachequi kingdom/paramountcy and its political structure in detail in the year 1538. Cofitachequi (pronounced Coffee—Ta—Check—We) [1] was a paramount chiefdom founded about AD 1300 and encountered by the Hernando de Soto expedition in South Carolina in April 1540.
The Spaniards were also provided with canoes and rafts so that they could transport themselves via water. As an act of peaceful relationships, the Lady gave De Soto her pearl necklace while he gave her a gold ring with a ruby stone. De Soto promised that the king of Spain would recognize the Lady's courteous treatment. [4]
Casqui was a Native American polity visited in 1541 by the Hernando de Soto expedition. This group inhabited fortified villages in eastern Arkansas . The tribe takes its name from the chieftain Casqui, who ruled the tribe from its primary village, thought to be located in present day Cross County, Arkansas near the town of Parkin .
Hernando de Soto Polar (commonly known Hernando de Soto / d ə ˈ s oʊ t oʊ /; born June 2, 1941) is a Peruvian economist known for his work on the informal economy and on the importance of business and property rights.
In 1528, Pánfilo de Narváez traveled through what was likely the Mobile Bay area, encountering Native Americans who fled and burned their towns at the approach of the expedition. This response was a prelude to the journeys of Hernando de Soto, more than eleven years later. [4]
The economist Hernando de Soto (Peru, 1941– ) is an advocate of transparency and private property rights, arguing that intransparent government leads to property not being given proper title, and therefore being "dead capital" which cannot be used as the basis of credit. Argues that laws which allocate property to those most able to use them ...
In 1539, Hernando de Soto led an army of more than 500 men through the western parts of Timucua territory, stopping in a series of villages of the Ocale, Potano, Northern Utina, and Yustaga branches of the Timucua on his way to the Apalachee domain (see list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition for other sites visited ...