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| the Vikings | explorers who sailed from Norway, Iceland, or Greenland to North America around the year 1000 |
| Balboa | European who first discovered the Pacific Ocean |
| Hernando Cortez | Spaniard who conquered the Aztecs |
| John Cabot | First European to reach North American mainland |
| Henry Hudson | explorer sponsored by Holland and later on England |
| Sir Francis Drake | first Englishman to sail around the world |
| Sieur de LaSalle | French explorer who claimed the Mississippi Valley for France |
| Louis Jolliet and Father Jacques Marquette | French explorers of the Mississippi River |
| Jacques Cartier | French explorer who discovered the Gulf of St Lawrence |
| John Cabot | first Englishman to explore North America |
| Hernando de Soto | Spanish explorer who discovered the Mississippi River |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spaniard who conquered the Incas of Peru |
| Hernando Cortez | led expedition from Cuba to Mexico in 1519 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who first sailed around the world |
| Amerigo Vespucci | drew maps of the New World and gave his name to the new lands |
| Vasco da Gama | explorer who made the first all-water voyage to India |
| Bartholomeu Dias | led expedition to the southern tip of Africa in 1486 |
| Prince Henry | Portuguese nobleman who encouraged exploration and navigation |
| Marco Polo | explorer who wrote a book about his travels to China |
| conquistador | a Spanish explorer or conqueror |
| Ponce de Leon | searched for the Fountain of Youth |
| Ponce de Leon | first Spaniard to reach land that is now part of the US |
| Montezuma | leader of the Aztecs |
| Francisco Coronado | Spanish explorer who first saw the Grand Canyon |
| Samuel de Champlain | laid out he first French settlement in the New World |
| Juan Cabrillo | Portuguese explorer who claimed the west coast of North America for Spain |
| Pedro Cabral | Portuguese explorer who discovered Brazil |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | sent by France to explore the east coast of North America |
