1. From Spain

2.  Conqueror of Mexico

3. Believed that the natives were "introduced into the holy Catholic faith.

4. Began the first of Spanish colonization of the Americas

5. Caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

1. took lead in European exploration

2. Began probing southward in 1420

3. Discovered gold there

4. West Africa know as Gold Coast

5. Then started trip to India

1. Lead Portuguese trip to India

2. Went around the Cape of Good Hope and cut across the Indian Ocean to India

3. Arrived in 1498 to port of Calicut

4. There he took a cargo of spices

5. Made a profit of several thousand percent off that cargo.