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Where did Amerigo Vespucci first explore?
china
What Amerigo Vespucci was looking for?
Amerigo Vespucci was looking for the land Columbus had sailed to (that everyone thought was China). When Amerigo got there he realized it didn't match the descriptions in Marco Polo's book. The land soon got named America after Amerigo.
Did Amerigo Vespucci make the first map of America?
No it was made by a German map maker who had read about Vespucci. Now, historians believe that Vespucci never reached North America and made it up for his book.
What did Amerigo Vespucci realize about America?
Amerigo Vespucci realized that America was a new continent, and not just an island off of the coast of China.
Who had a German mapmaker name a continent after him?
Amergo Vespucci didn’t have the map maker name North America after him, but after reading Vespucci’s book that he had discovered North America he named the continent after him. Actually Vespucci lied in his book and never reached North America.
What explorer when he reached what he thought was china his son would describe as a very sterile lonely land?
John Cabot
What conclusion did Vespucci form about the lands that he Columbus and caboto had reached?
the conclusion that Vespucci had formed about the lands that he, Columbus, and Cabato had reached is that the land he, Columbus, and cabato had reached was not Asia. The land that they had found had to be another Continent.....the "new world" that some Europeans thought might be there.
Which explorer thought he reached china?
Marco Polo
Who thought they reached China but instead saw white bears and stags?
Balboa
When you reached what you thought was china you saw what your son would one day?
cabot
What was Vespucci looking for?
Amerigo Vespucci was looking for the land Columbus had sailed to (that everyone thought was China). When Amerigo got there he realized it didn't match the descriptions in Marco Polo's book. The land soon got named America after Amerigo.
Where did Amerigo Vespucci first explore?
china
Whose son described what he thought was china as a very sterile land?
John Cabot's son, Sebastian Cabot said this.
Italian explorer who figured out that Columbus had not reached Asia?
Americo Vespucci.
What Amerigo Vespucci was looking for?
Amerigo Vespucci was looking for the land Columbus had sailed to (that everyone thought was China). When Amerigo got there he realized it didn't match the descriptions in Marco Polo's book. The land soon got named America after Amerigo.
When Columbus reached Cuba he thought he had reached?
the Indies
Who found out the world was larger than they thought?
Vespucci
