John Cabot - Italian, sailed for the British. Found New-Found-Land and modern day Canada. I never made it back from my second voyage. , Amerigo Vesucci - I followed Columbus to the New World. A mapmaker named the New World after me. , Vasco Nunez de Balboa - I was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the New World. I claimed all the land the ocean touched for Spain. , Ferdinand Magellan - I started with 5 ships, and ended with one. I wasn't even on the one ship. I died during the voyage, but the rest continued and proved the world was round. , Hernando Cortez - The Aztecs thought I was a god, they gifted me with Gold and I took over their empire. , Jacques Cartier - French, claimed much of Canada for France. , Samuel de Champlain - French- Found Quebec, first explorer to realize the St. Lawrence was not the Northwest Passage, Henry Hudson - Hired by the Dutch to find a new route to Asia. My men mutinied and left me and my son behind in a row boat. I found the Hudson River.  ,

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