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13

De Soto versus the Mississippians

Lecture no. 13 from the course: Ancient Civilizations of North America

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Taught by Professor Edwin Barnhart | 32 min | Categories: History

In 1539, Hernando de Soto of Spain landed seven ships with 600 men and hundreds of animals in present-day Florida. Follow his fruitless search for another Inca or Aztec Empire, as he instead encounters hundreds of Mississippian cities through which he led a three-year reign of terror across the land—looting, raping, disfiguring, murdering, and enslaving native peoples by the thousands.