Matching Pairs Major Explorers MatchingOnline version Major Explorers Matching Review by Sharon Sweet 1 Prince Henry the Navigator 2 Ferdinand Magellan 3 Francisco Pizarro 4 Jacques Cartier 5 Vasco da Gama 6 Francis Drake 7 Christopher Columbus 8 Hernando Cortes English explorer, circumnavigated, defeated Spanish Armada, pirate French explorer who claimed parts of Canada for his country and mapped the St. Lawrence River Portuguese explorer who explored the western coastline of Africa and set up a navigation school Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire in Peru/Chile Spanish conquistador, conquered the Aztecs in Mexico made 4 voyages to the Americas while representing Spain Portuguese explorer who traveled around the Cape of Good Hope to arrive in India, the first European to find an all water route to the Indies first ever to circumnavigate, sailed for Spain