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| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire |
| Hernando de Soto | Spanish explorer who led an expedition into what is today the Southeastern United States |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian exporer who made several voyages from Europe to what many people thought was Asia. He determined that he had landed on another continent , which was later called America in his honor |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | English explorer who used his own money to to set up England's first colony in North America, on Roanoke Island near North Carolina |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who founded the first settlement at Quebec |
| Hernando Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Spanish explorer who landed on the North America mainland in 1513, in what is now Florida |
| Francisco Vasquez de Cornado | Spanish explorer who led an expedition from Mexico City into what is now the southwestern United States in search of the Seven Cities of Gold |
| Martin Behaim | European that invented the first globe |
| Marco Polo | Explorer from Venice who spent many years in Asia in the late 1200's. He wrote a book about his travels that gave Europeans informationabout Asia |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who in 1519 led a fleet of ships from Spain westward to Asia. He died on the voyage but one of the ships made it back to Spain, completing the first trip around the world |
| Hernando Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire |
| John Smith | English explorer who, as leader of the Jamestown settlement, saved its people from starvation |
