English settlement expanded.

French interests developed in other parts of the Southeast and Mississippi Valley.

Native nations adapted to new pressures.

Trade networks changed.

Diseases and warfare altered populations.

By the eighteenth century, the political geography was dramatically different from the one de Soto encountered.

Yet the foundations of that later history can be traced back to these early encounters.

Capachequi therefore belongs to the beginning of a process, not an isolated event.