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| 2. | Explorer who seized the Inca Empire for Spain |
| 4. | Explorer who claimed what is now Brazil for Portugal |
| 6. | Founder ofQuebec |
| 8. | Explorer who claimed the |
| 9. | Explorer who invaded Mexico and conquered the Aztec Empire |
| 10. | Italian explorer after whom America was named |
| 11. | First explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. |
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| 1. | Explorer who claimed the Philippine Islands for Spain. |
| 3. | Juan Ponce de ______, Spanish explorer who sailed northward from Puerto Rico in 1513 and explored Florida. |
| 4. | Explorer whose voyage up the St. Lawrence River gave France a claim to much of eastern Canada |
| 5. | Explorer who sailed down the Mississippi and claimed Louisiana for France |
| 6. | Explorer who discovered the islands later known as the West Indies |
| 7. | First explorer to sail around Africa and across the Indian Ocean to India |
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