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Hernando De Soto was attracted to the Mississippi river because he played an important role in Francisco Pizarro's conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru, but is best known for leading the first European expedition deep into the territory of the modern-day United States through Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and most likely Arkansas.
<em>Underdevelopment</em> causes <em>hunger, disease, poverty, resource scarcity,environmental degradation, exploitation,exclusion,health problems,lower GDP, no education and lower standard of living</em> to citizens of less developed countries.Around 3 billion people of this world are facing underdevelopment.
The nations with underdeveloped people/society supply <em>cheap labour,and consumer markets</em> for the wealthy nations ,without which,according to Dependency Theory, they could not have the higher standard of living they enjoy.eg big companies like Nike,Adidas,Coca Cola,Pepsi etc have their factories in poor countries to enjoy cheapest labour and many a times young children below 14 years,to work for them,so that they may enjoy higher profits.
I believe that it was with mud and timber