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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.
Hernando de Soto and his expedition entered the Coosa chiefdom in 1540. Chroniclers recorded that the chiefdom consisted of eight villages. Archaeologists have identified the remains of seven of these, including the capital. The population of the Coosa is thought to have been between about 2,500 to 4,650 people.
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.
Chiaha was at the northern extreme of the paramount Coosa chiefdom's sphere of influence in the 16th century when the Spanish expeditions of Hernando de Soto and Juan Pardo passed through the area. The Chiaha chiefdom included parts of modern Jefferson and Sevier counties, and may have extended westward into Knox , Blount and Monroe counties.
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]
The poem claims Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto brought his daughter Sara with him to Florida, but there’s no record of her ever existing. LaHurd points out, too, that if de Soto did have a ...
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.
A proposed route for the de Soto Expedition, based on Charles M. Hudson map of 1997. [1] This is a list of sites and peoples visited by the Hernando de Soto Expedition in the years 1539–1543. In May 1539, de Soto left Havana, Cuba, with nine ships, over 620 men and 220 surviving horses and landed at Charlotte Harbor, Florida. This began his ...