| A | B |
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| Columbus | "discovered" the "New World" in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China |
| Magellan | named the Pacific ocean/ship completed the first circumnavigation of the globe. |
| Dias | reached the tip of africa, named the Cape of Good Hope |
| da Gamma | first European to reach India by ship |
| Balboa | First European to sight the Pacific Ocean |
| Cortez | defeated the Aztecs |
| Pizzaro | defeated the Incas |
| Champlain | French explorer in the Americas: founder of Quebec |
| Coronado | the first European to explore what is now Arizona and New Mexico |
| Ponce de Leon | discovered Florida while looking for the legendary Fountain of Youth |
| La Salle | French explorer, sailed down Mississippi and claimed Louisiana for France |
| John Cabot | discovered North American mainland, sailed for England |
| Sir Walter Raliegh | Founded Roanoke |
| de Soto | landed in FL, explored much of North America |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | started school for sailors, never explored himself |
| Leif Erikson | Norse explorer, and the first European known to have discovered North America |
| Vespucci | America gets its name from him (Amerigo is his first name) |
| Jaques Cartier | French explorer, explored the Saint Lawrence River |
| Pedro Alvares Cabral | Portuguese, discovered Brazil |
| Sir Francis Drake | the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe |
