"<span>I hereby renounce my parents, my brothers and relatives, my friends, my possessions . . . and the vain and empty glory and pleasure of this world. I also renounce my own will, for the will of God. I accept all the hardships of the monastic life, and take the vows of purity, chastity, and poverty, in the hope of heaven; and I promise to remain a monk in this monastery all the days of my life." Found this on the internet from .com so do not report me I gave credit.</span>
In 1492, Christopher Columbus, supported by the Spanish government, undertook a voyage to find a new route to Asia and inadvertently encountered “new” lands in the Americas full of long established communities and cultures. Other European countries quickly followed suit and began to explore and invade the New World.
Hernando de Soto<span> was born c. 1500 in Jerez </span>de<span> los Caballeros, Spain. In the early 1530s, while on Francisco Pizarro's </span>expedition<span>, </span>de Soto<span> helped conquer Peru. In 1539 he set out for North America, where he discovered the Mississippi River. </span>De Soto<span> died of fever on May 21, 1542, in Ferriday, Louisiana</span>