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 Amerigo Vespucci  By Rose and Marissa

 Did you know how North America and South America got their names? Both of these huge continents were named after Amerigo Vespucci.

 Amerigo Vespucci was born in 1454, on March 9th. He was born in Florence, Italy. He died in 1512, on February 22, at Seville, Spain. He was 58 years old when he died. He died of malaria.

 When Vespucci was a boy, he was interested in studying astronomy. Vespucci came from a wealthy family of merchants. Vespucci received education from his uncle Giorgi Antonio Vespucci. He was the first white man to recognize that the New World of North America and South America was not Asia. He was convinced that there was a passage through the New World to Asia. He had four journeys with four different ships the San Antiago, Repertaga, Wegiz, Girmand, and one of his sister ships was called The Christopher Columbus. On his first voyage he traveled to the Golf of Paria with Columbus. He sailed during these years: 1499-1500, 1501-1502, 1503-1504,and 1497-1498. He wrote letters about his voyages. On Vespucci’s second voyage he went as far south as Argentina. Amerigo Vespucci also supplied Columbus with tools, ships, and food on his third and fourth voyage.

 Before Vespucci sailed he was a Florentine merchant. He convinced the mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller that he discovered the New World, not Columbus. Martin Waldseemuller suggested that North America and South America should be named after Vespucci. That is how America and South America got it’s name. Amerigo Vespucci was an amazing explorer of the 1400’s and 1500’s.

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