How was America named?

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Muskan Anand

2 years ago

America changed into named after the Italian tourist Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci had studied books and maps beneathneath Michelangelo. Vespucci became a banker. He went to Spain in 1492 in which he have become interested by sailing. His first excursion turned into in 1499 as a navigator. He and his team reached the mouth of the Amazon River and explored the coast of South America. He calculated how a ways west he had travelled. In 1501, he sailed round most of South America. He become the primary to realize that the ‘New World’ of North and South America changed into now no longer in Asia. He made 3 trips to the New World and made a number of of calculations earlier than he died of malaria.

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