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