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Hernando De Soto By Brian Burns

De Soto was born in 1497 and died in 1542 at age 45. He was the first explorer to discover the mississippi river. De Soto conquered lots of the southeast region of north america.
He was a conquistador (conquerer) and explorer. He was from spain and he traveled to north america. De Soto went through florida , De Soto explored lots of the southeast region searching for the seven cities of gold conquering the native american empire as he went. When they searching De Soto actually died of fever on May 21 1542. They buried him in the mississippi river to hide his death from the aztec.