| A | B |
|---|
| Portuguese explorer who the first to reach India by sailing around Africa | Vasco Da Gama |
| discovered a whole New World while trying to reach the East by sailing west from Spain | Christopher Columbus |
| Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Indians of Mexico | Hernando Cortez |
| was the first Englishman to sail around the world | Francis Drake |
| sponsored by Spain, his expedition was the 1st to sail around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
| French explorer discovered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the St. Lawrence River | Jacques Cartier |
| conquered the Inca of Peru | Francisco Pizarro |
| founded a school of navigation in Portugal and sponsored the 1st explorations along the coast of Africa | Henry the Navigator |
