Hernando De Soto Research Paper

Juan Ponce de Leon was the first European known to have visited present-day United States in 1513. He also discovered Florida and the Bahama Channel, and colonized Puerto Rico according to the Mariners Museum website. In 1502, he left on a voyage with Frey Nicolás de Ovando and arrived at Santo Domingo. He lived there from 1502 to 1504 and was named the island’s captain by Ovando. De Leon then moved to Salvaleón and lived there from 1505 to 1508. In 1506, he made a request to travel to and conquer Borinquen. After receiving permission from Ovando, he started a settlement there and renamed it San Juan de Puerto Rico. On March 3rd 1513, he left Puerto Rico with 3 ships to explore north of Cuba. On March 27th 1513 he sighted mainland Florida.

Hernando de Soto was born circa 1496 in the Extremadura region of Spain, and was always ambitious at heart. History.com says “at a very young age he developed dreams of making his

In 1497, John Cabot sailed to the Florida peninsula. Sixteen years later, Juan Ponce de Leon of Spain traveled to North America and more specifically, Florida’s east coast. He claimed the land for Spain and named it “La Florida.” Panfilo de Narvaez and Hernando de Soto went on a mission to acquire riches such as silver and gold. They were told by an Indian tribe in the Tampa Bay, Florida area that they could find what they were looking for in Tallahassee. Hernando de Soto took his men to Tallahassee, Florida and did not

I’m starting my first journal entry I have not had time for it yet until Now, because we have been loading all the supplies onto the boat to sail to the new world. Our General Hernando de Soto is a great leader. He commands all 600 of us he was born in 1500 and died 1542.

Juan Perez is an explorer know for discovering and mapping the northwest coast. Juan Perez is a Spanish explorer who came from Spain. He went on two voyages, but we only know mostly about the first voyage Juan Peres was born on 1725 in Majorca, Spain and died on November 3, 1775. Perez’s first voyage was in 1774, and he arrived in Vancouver, Canada, in the same year. When he got to Canada he was greeted by natives, but he did not get off his ship or go ashore. The natives brought him gifts and they traded. Juan Perez belongs in the hall of fame because he helped discover and map 4 major places in the world that no one had discovered yet.

The Spanish monarchs of the 16th century wanted to expand to “the new world,” so they got rich nobles who were willing to explore uncharted territory. These people are now known as conquistadors. They were the lucky few that got a new life away from all the troubles of Europe. Most of them went to conquer the Caribbean islands, some went to Florida, and some went to Mexico. Panfilo de Narvaez, unlike most, went to all of those places. The only information about his early life is that he was born of noble family. He went to Cuba; there he helped Spain conquer the Island, by commanding a small group of Crossbowmen. After that, he went to Mexico, by order of Diego de Velasquez, to take control away from the treasonous Hernando Cortes. Valesquez had him do this because he stole Mexico, not only from Spain, but also Moctezuma (Schneider 8). There he lost an eye and got captured. After 1-5 years (no two authors agreed) he went back to Spain.

In fifteen thousand four he went to the new world to look for fortune. It took three months to get to Tenochtitlán which is the Aztec capital because of rough terrain. He conquered Montezuma and the Aztec empire. In fifteen eighteen he was put in command by Veláquez of an expedition to secure inside of Mexico. He ignored these orders. He stopped in Cuba to get more soldiers and more horses. He arrived in Mexico in February of fifteen nineteen. He tricked the Aztecs into giving him a lot of gold when he first arrived in Mexico. The Talascan Indians attacked him and his crew when he first arrived in Mexico. Two of his men died and eight hundred Indians died. He became allies with a lot of the natives, but with others he used deadly force. In March of fifteen nineteen he finally claimed land for the Spanish crown. He won a battle against the natives in Tabasco. He received twenty women and converted them all to Christianity. Cortés took Montezuma hostage and his soldiers looted the city. Cortés was defeated by the Aztecs but came back and defeated them in fifteen twenty one. After this he continued to fight for opportunities to gain land and wealth. He discovered the peninsula of California in fifteen thirty six. He was offered a drink called Xocolatl and he used these beans as money and for making a drink. He brought the drink back to Spain but it was not popular because it was strong and bitter. When sugar, cinnamon and other spices started getting added the drink became popular. Only the rich could afford it because the taxes on it were high. Cortés started plantations in Mexico, Haiti Trinidad, Java and other places in the Caribbean. The Spanish ruled the cocoa industry for many years. Since they gained so much money off of this drink, they kept details of how they made it secret. The work was done by monks and their secret was guarded until fifteen eighty when a chocolate production plant was made in

Hernando de Soto, Jean Pierre Purry, Dr. Henry Woodward all of these men were the first explorers in Georgia. Hernando de Soto was from Barcarrota, Spain, he came to Georgia in the pursuit of El Dorado "The City of Gold," but he never found it and died from a fever in Louisiana.

Hernan Cortez was born in the Kingdom of Castile, Spain, 1485; Cortez was Spanish nobility but he was a sickly child, he was also an only child to his mother (Catalina Pizarro Altamirano) and Farther (Martin Cortes de Monroy), He came from a fairly famous family and his father was a captain in the Spanish army. His parents wanted him to become a lawyer so they sent him to the University of Salamanca in west-central Spain (1499), where he studied law and Latin at the age of fourteen. After two years, Cortes wasn't interested in becoming a lawyer and returned home when he was sixteen. Cortez was fascinated with tales of Christopher Columbus’ New World explorations. Cortez was most known for the Spanish conquistador who defeated the vast Aztecs Empire in Central America (image of Hernan Cortez below).

Juan Ponce De Leon was a Spanish explorer. In addition to being an explorer, he was also a soldier, governor, and farmer. Ponce De Leon’s exact date of birth is not known. Many believe he was born around 1460 to 1474 in Santervas De Campos, Spain. He died in July, 1521, in Havana, Cuba. He died after he was shot by a poisoned arrow from the Indians who were trying to protect their land.

So after de Soto got through with the expedition to the West Indies, he went to another journey to Peru. Another explorer named Francisco Pizarro made Hernando co-leader of the

but he was not the first to discover Florida. Juan Ponce De Leon was a great explorer he was born around the 1460’s and came from a village called San Tervas de Campos (Lawson 1). At an early age he trained to become an aristocrat, he was a very intelligent explorer. Before Florida he was the governor of Puerto Rico until the title was prevented to be established by the Crown because of Ovando. A series of events that followed made him believe that there wasn’t anything for him there anymore.

      When Pizarro got back, he and his brothers discovered a group of people called the Incas. They saw that the Incas had a lot of gold and greed took them over. They tricked the Incan leader and captured him. The ransom to release the Incan emperor, Atahualpa, was to fill a room measuring 22 by 17 feet with gold. The Incas did fill the room but Pizarro killed the emperor anyway and conquered the Incas. When news of Pizarro’s conquest reached King Charles’ ears, he was overjoyed. He expanded the territory which Pizarro governed. A lot of South America was under Spanish rule. After all of the gold was divided between all of the leaders of the expedition and the king, each man got about $52,000 in Spanish pesos. That was a lot of money back then.

came back and helped kill over 10,000 Aztecs and in the act, thousands of Spaniards died. Suddenly, Cortes started

As a young man hernan cortes studied law, but decided to seek a fortune in the recently found New World that Christopher Columbus had recently stumbled upon. Cortes ended up first in the island of Santo Domingo the Dominican Republic in 1504 when Cortes was only 19 years of age. Hernan stayed for 11 years but then he took part in the conquest of Cuba, the year was 1511. Cortes was appointed mayor of Santiago de Cuba up until 1518. Hernan Cortes had a taste of power and enjoyed it greatly and because of this his appetite for more conquests was immense. Hernan Cortes was a hero for joining two worlds and conquering the most powerful civilization of America. Some people thought Cortes was a villain for making the Aztec Empire disappear. Hernan