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This conquistador was brutal. He explored much of the Gulf Coast region and every time he encountered Indians, he left them raped, tortured, and injected with deadly diseases. In the seventeenth century, Europeans came to settle where De Soto conquered, but not much remained of the societies he encountered.
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