| A | B |
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| Morco Polo | an Italian merchant who supposedly traveled throughout Asia for 24 years |
| Prince Henry | established a school to prepare sailors |
| Bartholomew Dias | first European to sail to the southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | First European to follow an all water route to Asia |
| Christopher Columbus | European explorer who believed he had reached the East by sailing west |
| Amerigo Vespucci | First European to acknowledge a "new world" |
| Pedro Cabral | Made Portugal's only claim in the "new world" |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | First European to see the Pacific Ocean |
| Ferdinand Magellan | lead the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth |
| John Cabot | First European sailing for the English to reach the "new world" |
| Giovanni da Verrazano | One of the first explorers to search for a "Northwest Passage" |
| Jacques Cartier | discovered the St. Lawrence River |
| Samuel de Champlain | First European to explore the upper Great Lakes |
| Henry Hudson | His crew rebelled on his second trip to find the "Northwest Passage" |
| Hernando Cortes | Conquered the Aztecs |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquered the Incas |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | claimed Florida for Spain |
| Panfilo de Narvaez | His ships left him and 200 men stranded in Florida |
| Alvar Nunez Cabesa de Vaca | Spent eight years lost in the "new world" |
| Estevanico | a servant of African and Arab descent |
| Marcos de Niza | a priest who searched for "Cibola" |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | seached for "Cibola" & "Quivira" |
| Hernando de Soto | first European to cross the Mississippi River |
| Juan Rodriquez Cabrillo | Europeaon explorer who claimed California for Spain |
| Juan de Onate | established the towns of El Paso and Santa Fe |
| Johann Gutenberg | invented the printing press |
