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