What Impact Did the Hernando De Soto Expedition Have on the Mound

question 14

Multiple Choice

What impact did the Hernando de Soto expedition have on the mound builders?

• A) the Spanish, with their superior weaponry, defeated the mound builders in a protracted, four-year war
• B) these Spaniards may have inadvertently introduced smallpox and other infectious diseases against which Native Americans possessed no immunity, resulting in epidemics and a dramatic reduction in native population
• C) it was de Soto and his men who introduced the idea of constructing mounds in the first place
• D) none; mound-builder culture had already collapsed before the arrival of the de Soto expedition

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