Hernando de Soto's Expedition (1 magg 1539 anni – 1 magg 1539 anni)

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In the early 1540s, less than fifty years after the discovery of the New World, a Spanish expedition led by Hernando de Soto trekked across the land that would become the state of Mississippi. Th is expedition (a journey for a specific purpose, such as exploration) was the beginning of what historians call the European period, or colonial period, of American history. Th e great powers of Europe—Spain, France, and England—were locked in a two-hundred-year struggle to control the New World and its vast wealth. Hernando de Soto had served under Francisco Pizarro in Peru. He dreamed of leading his own expedition and finding even greater riches than those discovered among the Inca peoples of South America. In May 1539, de Soto landed at Tampa Bay, Florida, with a large expedition that included 620 men and women, 223 horses, a drove of swine, and a pack of dogs

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