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Explorers

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Venetian merchant who traveled to China, served Kublai Khan, and whose memoir Il Milione was dictated in prison to Rusticiano of Pisa Marco Polo
The name of Marco Polo's memoir, dictated to his cellmate Rusticiano of Pisa Il Milione
The explorer who sailed the Niña, Pinta, and Santa Maria to San Salvador and Hispaniola on his first voyage in 1492 Christopher Columbus
The settlement founded by Columbus on Hispaniola during his first voyage Navidad
The Genoese explorer who sailed for Henry VII of England and landed in eastern Canada (probably Newfoundland) aboard the Matthew in 1497 John Cabot
The French explorer who went on three expeditions up the St. Lawrence River and named the hill behind Hochelaga "Montréal" Jacques Cartier
The French explorer who founded Quebec City and was the first European to see Lake Huron Samuel de Champlain
The explorer whose expedition (1519) first circumnavigated the globe (though he died in the Philippines) Ferdinand Magellan
The only ship from Magellan's original expedition that returned to Spain, commanded by Juan Sebastián Elcano Victoria
The Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs after founding Veracruz and making alliances with the Tlaxcalans Hernan Cortés
The Aztec emperor welcomed by Cortés into Tenochtitlan who was later taken prisoner Montezuma II
The Nahua captive and Spanish castaway who served as translators for the Cortés expedition La Malinche (Doña Marina) and Gerónimo de Aguilar
The Spanish conquistador who seized the Incan emperor Atahualpa at Cajamarca and later founded Lima Francisco Pizarro
The Incan emperor seized and held for ransom by Pizarro, then later killed Atahualpa
The English explorer sent by Elizabeth I who circumnavigated the globe in the Golden Hind (renamed from Pelican) and fought the Spanish Armada Sir Francis Drake
The explorer who sailed up the New York river now named for him in 1609 for the Dutch, and was later mutinied against in the Canadian bay named for him Henry Hudson
The explorer who sailed aboard the Endeavour to observe the transit of Venus from Tahiti, then went to New Zealand and Australia's Botany Bay on his first voyage James Cook
The explorer who was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle on his second voyage and was killed by inhabitants of Hawaii on his third James Cook
The leaders of the Corps of Discovery expedition that departed from Camp Wood in 1804 and wintered at Fort Clatsop near the Pacific Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
The Shoshone woman who joined the Lewis and Clark expedition at Fort Mandan and served as a guide/translator Sacajawea
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