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Venetian who explored Asia
Marco Polo
First to go around the Cape of Good Hope
Bartolomeu Dias
Aztec conqueror
Hernando Cortez
John Cabot's son who explored the Rio de la Plata
Sebastian Cabot
Frenchmen who explored the length of Mississippi River
Marquette & Joliet
Norse explorer who first reached Greenland
Eric the Red
Discoverer of the New World
Christopher Columbus
Incan Conqueror and explorer of Peru
Francisco Pizarro
Frenchman who founded Montreal and charted St. Lawrence River
Jacques Cartier
Giovanni da Verrazano
Norse explorer of northeast North America, Eric the Red's son
Leif Erikson
Italian map maker/explorer who coined the term "New World"
Amerigo Vespucci
Explorer of American southwest; searched for 7 cities of Cibola
Francisco de Coronado
Portuguese discoverer of Brazil
Pedro Cabral
Spaniard who discovered the Mississippi River
Hernando de Soto
Flemish cartographer
Mercator
Portuguese explorer and first to reach India
Vasco da Gama
First to set foot on U.S. mainland (Florida)
Ponce de Leon
Portuguese discoverer of California
Juan Cabrillo
The Father of New France, founded Quebec
Samuel de Champlain
Henry the Navigator
First to see the Pacific Ocean
Vasco Nunez de Balboa
John Cabot
Frenchman who explored the southern Mississippi River
Sieur de la Salle
German naturalist who explored the Orinoco
Friedrich Humboldt