Before I go on about what this person did, I would like to tell you about some of his life. Hernando de soto was born around the 1500s (the date was not specified) in Extremadura, Spain. Most of his childhood was not explained in the website I used, but we know a lot about his life as a young man. He participated in the conquest of the conquest of Panama and Nicaragua. He became very wealthy when he contributed to the conquest of the Incas. De Soto, however, did not care about wealth. He mostly wanted be have the same social status of the conquistador, Francisco Pizzaro conqueror of the Incas. Now I can get to what he did to be famous. He returned to Spain, and when 1537 came King Charles V gave him permission to go explore and conquer La Florida. He departed and saw the western coast on May 25, 1539. He and his 600 men landed and stayed under the chiefdom of Apalachee during the winter of 1539-1540. They left on March 3, 1540 and reached the southern border of Georgia. By the time they reached the Flint River, they built a crude boat to go reach the western side of the river. After they crossed the river, they headed on to the Chickasawhatchee Swamp. There, they met the chief of Capachequiand rested there for 6 days. They repeated these certain events exploring La Florida. This meant that de Soto and his men would explore and then rest at a native camp for some days and then leave. Some of the native chiefdoms that he rested in were the Toa, the Ichisi, the Altama, the Ocute, the Patofa, and the Coosa. As Hernando went up north from Florida all the way up to Tennessee, he revisited Georgia on July 15, 1540. On the way to Alabama, about half of de Soto's men were killed by some unfriendly natives. De Soto was also killed in some of these attacks. One reason that may have caused these attacks is because of the destruction of the Mississippian tribe. Now de Soto leaves three marks of his exploration for our attracted tourism.