Answer:
1.Magellan - his crew was the first to sail around the world.
2.Cartier - first to explore St. Lawrence River
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3.Balboa - discovered the Pacific
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4.Cabot - discovered rich fishing grounds
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5.Champlain - began first permanent French settlement
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6.Drake - English sea dog who plundered the Spanish navy
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7.Marquette - New France priest.
Explanation:
1. Magellan was a Portuguese explorer, who along with his crew were the first to sail around the world, with his Spanish expedition to the East Indies between 1519- 1522.
2. Jacques Cartier was a French navigator. Under the commission of King Francis I of France, became the first European to describe and map the Gulf of St. Lawrence. St. Lawrence River in present day Quebec in Canada was first discovered by him.
3. Vasco Núñez de Balboa, a Spanish explorer, was the first to see and reach the Pacific.
4. John Cabot, an Italian navigator and explorer who discovered rich fishing grounds.
5. Champlain founded the first permanent settlement in present day Quebec City in 1608.
6. Sir Francis Drake is part of the Sea Dogs commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I of English. They are a group of sea raiders also trading in slavery. He plundered the Spanish navy.
7. Jacques Marquette was a French explorer who became a New France priest.
