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| Pedro Cabral | a Portugese explorer that discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal |
| Hernando Cortez | a Spanish explorer that discovered Mexico and conquered the Aztecs |
| Montezuma | the Aztec leader that met Coronado with gifts of gold because the Aztecs thought the Spaniards were gods |
| Alahualpa | the Incan leader that met Pizzaro with a friendly reeption but was then taken prisoner by Spaniards |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | a Spanish missionary who passed laws against the enslavement of Indians |
| Jacques Cartier | a French explorer who claimed the land along the St. Lawrence River in eastern Canada for France |
| Samuel de Champlain | a French explorer that established the first French colony in North America andexplored the Great Lakes |
| La Salle | a Frencch explorer that explored the Mississippi River area and named it Louisiana |
| John Cabot | an English explorer that claimed Newfoundland for Britain |
| Henry Hudson | a Dutch explorer that claimed the area around New York City for the Netherlands |
