Essay On Hernando De Balboa

Exploring, what does that mean to you? Well I’m Maddie Medieval and you should have an answer to that question at the end of the video. Welcome back to Medieval News and today we are going to talk about the age of exploration and we have some guests today. Have you heard of Vasco Nunez de Balboa or Hernando de Soto or Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo? Well we will be talking to all of these people about what they did to help to explore the New World. Lets go ahead and start talking to all of these men.
Okay so, Balboa was first to discover South America and part of Central America. He also was also the first person to see the Pacific Ocean. When he crossed Panama.

Isn’t that right Vasco?

I didn’t really care about viewing it I just wanted my gold. It just …show more content…
Yes I did, I went back to Mar del Sur and I wanted to conquer it and I used the ships that I built in my last expedition and that was long time to build.

He was executed near Acla near Darien, Panama for treason. There were a lot of good things that he did and that paved the road for the two other explorers. Between you and me Vasco was a person who only cared about money. Next I’m going to interview Hernando de Soto. Let’s get to know a little bit more about him so you have some background knowledge. Hernando de Soto also sailed for Spain and he was in search of riches also. He made a fortune off of slave trade. I will also mention Francisco Pizarro and he traveled to places that people had already been and wiped the people out. What Hernando mainly did was discovered Florida and the Mississippi River and claimed it for Spain.

So Hernando, when you were young you always knew that you wanted money?

Yes, I did I always wanted money and when I got a chance with Francisco Pizarro to go on the Peru expedition I knew that I wanted money and the more I traveled on the expeditions I knew I wanted the Spanish crown and money. Oh Yes I wanted that

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