Explorers and Conquerors

1. Francisco Pizarro

1.1. Spanish conquistador

1.2. conquered Inca Empire in 1532

2. Hernán Cortés

2.1. Spanish conquistador

2.2. conquered Aztec Empire 1519

3. Hernando de Soto

3.1. First European to cross Mississippi river

4. Juan Ponce de León

4.1. Spanish conquistador

4.2. became governor of Puerto Rico 1510

5. Juan Sebastián Elcano and Ferdinand Magellan

5.1. first circumnavigation of world in 1521

6. Columbus

6.1. "discovered" New World in 1492