Ancient Civilizations of North America Episode 13, De Soto versus the Mississippians Episode 13, De Soto versus the Mississippians.

Streaming video - 2018

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.