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