| A | B |
|---|
| Jacues Cartier | discovered the Saint Lawrence River |
| Samuel de Champlain | founded Quebec |
| Christopher Columbus | Discovered America |
| Hernado Cortés | conquered the Aztecs |
| Leif Ericson | viking who is said to have been the first to go to America |
| Vasco de Gama | Made a voyage around Africa to India |
| Ponce de León | discovered Florida and searched for the "Fountain of Youth" |
| Ferdinand Magellan | sailed around the world and proved the world was round |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Incas |
| Cavalier de la Salle | discovered the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes |
| Hernando de Soto | discovered the Mississippi River |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian who realized the Americas were new continents |
| Montezuma | leader of the Aztecs |
| Aztec | tribe found in Central America conquered by Hernando Cortés |
| Incan | tribe found in South America conquered by Francisco Pizarro |
| Mayan | tribe found in Mexico |
| Marquette & Joliet | explored the Mississippi River |
| Marco Polo | Italian explorer who traveled to China and served Kubla Kahn |
| Bartholomew Dias | first to reach the southern tip of Africa |
| Lapu-Lapu | Chieftan who killed Ferdinand Magellan |
| Francisco Coronado | Looked for the "Seven Cities of Cibola" discovered the Grand Canyon |
| Encomiendas | large estates granted to colonists by the King |
| Sir Francis Drake | Naval Commander and Pirateer of England |
| French Huguenots | desired to escape religious persecution and sailed to the New World to establish a French colony |
