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| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer that sailed from Spain and reached islands near America. |
| Leif Ericson | The first European explorer to set foot on North America continent. |
| Marco Polo | The first explorer to travel across Asia through China. |
| John Cabot | Italian explorer who wanted to find an all-water route to Asia by traveling north and west. |
| Amerigo Vespucci | This explorer has America named after him. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | A Portuguese explorer who never reached the Indies because he died. |
| Hernando De Soto | This Spanish explorer was looking for the fabled sevn cities of Gold. |
| Henry Hudson | This explorer was in search of the Northwest passge. |
| Robert LaSalle | A french explorer who explored the Mississippi River to its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico. |
