| A | B |
| Prince Henry | Portugal - brought people together to study navigation |
| Columbus | wanted to sail west around the world to get to Asia - landed in the Carribean - though he was in India |
| Magellan | his crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe |
| Drake | first Englishman to sail around the globe |
| Cortez | Spanish conquistador - conquered Aztecs |
| Pizarro | Spanish conquistador - conquered Incas |
| Cartier | French Explorer - claimed Canada for France |
| da Gama | Portuguese - first to find water route to Asia |