| A | B |
|---|
| This explorer was the first to reached India | Vasco da Gama |
| First explorer to sail west from Europe | Christopher Columbus |
| Area of North America which was claimed by Spanish explorers | New Mexico and Florida |
| This explorer was the first to reached the tip of Africa | Bartolomeu Dias |
| This explorer was the first to travel around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Shorcut from Europe to Asia through N. America that many explorers searched for but was never found | Northwest Passage |
| This explorer reached the coast of Newfoundland for Great Britain | John Cabot |
| Spanish soldier which led an expedition in search of the "fountain of youth" | Juan Ponce de Leon |
| This country claimed the most land in North America | Spain |
| This Spanish explorer led an expedition to the SW of the United States | Francisco Vasquez de Coronado |
| Due to this explorer, France was able to claimed for the first time land in North America | Jacques Cartier |
| French explorer which financed his own expedition traveling the Mississippi River | Robert de la Salle |
| This country did not sponsor any exploration throughout America | Italy |
| This area of N. America was claimed by French explorers | Louisiana and Quebec |
| They treated the Native Americans as business partners | French Explorers |
