| A | B |
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| Rustichello | I wrote a travel-logof a famous explorer with whom I shared a prison cell |
| Ferdinand Magellan | I set sail from Spain with 300 men and 5 ships. Three years later, one of my ships arrived home with only 18 original crew members |
| Hernando Cortes | I disobeyed the governor of Cuba and conquered the richest Indian tribe in Mexico |
| Marco Polo | I told of my adventures in China and of a land called Cipangu, which was reportedly paved with gold |
| John Cabot | I, Giovanni, reached Newfoundland in search of China. To the English, I was known by a different name. |
| Christopher Columbus | My calculations were faulty, but I thought I could sail 3000 miles west to reach China |
| Martin Luther | Romans 1:17 ("The just shall live by faith") transformed my life and teachings |
| Sir Francis Drake | In my ship, The Golden Hind, I fought the Catholic threat on the high seas with my cousin Sir John Hawkins |
| Captain John Smith | 2 Thes. 3:10 ("If any would not work, neither shall he eat") was a verse I enforced to ensure Jamestown's survival |
| Ponce de Leon | In a Spanish attempt to settle the southeastern US, I was the first to explore the Florida peninsula in 1513 |
| Amerigo Vespucci | A German mapmaker named the New World after me instead of after Columbus |
| Francisco de Coronado | I searched for the Seven Cities of Cibola and found the Grand Canyon |
| Vasco da Gama | A cargo of spices worth sixty times the cost of my expedition was my reward for sailing to India |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | I financed two attempts to colonize the New World in an area that I called Virginia |
| Hernando de Soto | I landed at Tampa Bay, traveled to North Carolina, and eventually discovered the Mississippi River |
| John Rolfe | I helped bring peace to Jamestown by marrying an Indian chief's daughter |
| Governor John White | I went to England for supplies, and when I returned, I found the town of Raleigh empty |
| Bartolomeu Dias | I was the first to round the southern cape of Africa |
