| A | B |
|---|
| left a ship’s crew on island of Española to found first European colony (25 Dec) | Cristóbal Colón |
| established Santo Domingo y governed Española (Hispaniola) | Bartolomé Colón |
| gave his name to two continents | Amerigo Vespucci |
| explored la Florida & was governor of Puerto Rico | Juan Ponce de León |
| "discovered” the Pacific Ocean | Vasco Nuñez de Balboa |
| returned to Spain after circling the globe | Juan Elcano |
| destroyed his ships so his men would have to continue to the interior | Hernán Cortés |
| was translator and indigenous companion of Hernán Cortés | Malinche |
| conquered the quechuas (Incas) | Francisco Pizarro |
| explored the Amazonas all the way to its mouth in the Atlantic | Francisco de Orellana |
| after helping Pizarro he fought aruacanos, founded Santiago de Chile | Pedro de Valdivia |
| founded Buenos Aires, attacked by pampas | Pedro de Mendoza |
| explored the Southeast of the U.S. and the Mississippi, where he died | Hernando De Soto |
| explored the Southwest of the U.S.; searched for 7 Cities de Cíbola (of gold) | Francisco Vázquez de Coronado |
| from Florida was shipwrecked near Galveston, was captured by indígenas—escaped after 7 years. | J. N. Cabeza de Vaca |
| what he wrote became the foundation of the Black Legend “la Leyenda Negra” | Bartolomé de las Casas |
| conquered the Aztecas or Méxicas | Hernán Cortés |
| searched for the Fountain of Youth | Juan Ponce de León |
| was an Aztec emperor | Moctezuma |
| was an Inca (emperor of quechuas) | Atahualpa |
| sea captain--first saw Patagonians; a strait is named for him | Fernando de Magallanes |
| discovery of the Americas took place in the reign of | Fernando e Isabel |
| major conquests in the Americas helped form the Empire of | Carlos I |
| the capital city of the quechuas (Incas) | Cuzco |
| the capital city of the aztecas (méxicas) | Tenochtitlán |
| an important Mayan city-state | Chichén-Itza |
| an important center of the zapotecas, near Oaxaca | Monte Albán |
