History of the United States I / Unit 2 USH1 0157 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Vespucci and the Naming
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The idea
Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian sailing for Portugal, explored the South American coast and realised, unlike Columbus, that these were lands unknown to Europeans.
In practice
Martin Waldseemüller attaching America to his fifteen oh seven map.
Where people slip
The name that stuck belongs to the man who understood what he was looking at.
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