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| 1603741862 | Ferdinand of Aragon | The King of Spain in the Late 15th century. | 0 | |
| 1603741863 | Isabella of Castile | The wife of Ferdinand of Aragon. | 1 | |
| 1603741864 | Christopher Columbus | An Italian seafarer who persuaded the Spanish monarch to provide him ships and crew to be used for exploring. He discovered America and thought it was the land of the Indies. | 2 | |
| 1603741865 | Francisco Coronado | In 1540 to 1542, in a quest of fabled golden cities that turned out to be adobe pueblos, wandered with a cavalcade through Arizona and New Mexico, penetrating as far east as Kansas. En route, his expedition discovered two awesome natural wonders: the Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, and enormous herds of buffalo. | 3 | |
| 1603741866 | Francisco Pizarro | The ironfisted conqueror who crushed the Incas of Peru in 1532 and added a high hoard of booty to Spanish coffers. | 4 | |
| 1603741867 | Bartolomé de Las Casas | A reform-minded Dominican friar who was appalled by the encomienda system in Hispaniola calling it a "moral pestilence invented by Satan." He wrote The Destruction of the Indies in 1542 to chronicle the awful fate of Naitive Americans and to protest Spanish Policies in the New World. | 5 | |
| 1603741868 | Hernán Cortés | Set sail from Cuba to Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztecs on August 13, 1521. | 6 | |
| 1603741869 | Malinche (Doña Marina) | A female Indian slave who knew both Mayan and Nahuatl (Aztez language) who was picked up by Cortés. She eventually learned Spanish, and was baptized with the Spanish name ... | 7 | |
| 1603741870 | Moctezuma | The Aztec chieftain who encountered Cortés and welcomed him with gifts. Eventually he realized the Spaniards greed for gold and attacked. | 8 | |
| 1603741871 | Giovanni Caboto (John Cabot) | Sent by the English to explore the Northeast coast of North America in 1497 and 1498. | 9 | |
| 1603741872 | Robert de La Salle | Sent by the French down the Mississippi river in the 1680s. | 10 | |
| 1603741873 | Father Junipero Serra | The leader of the Spanish missionaries who set up twenty-one missions starting with one in San Diego in 1769. | 11 |
