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aprox 6 voyages starting in 1478 and ending 1505 befor he became Mayor of Spain dying 4 years later first= 1478 second= 1494 (or 1499 ?) third= 1501 fourth= 1503 5th and 6th= 1505 in 1507 German mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller printed the first map that used the name America for the new world because Vespucci sugested that Columbas never really did sail to the indies but discovered a whole new world. Martin the German Geographer suggested that since he was the first to realize it, America was to be named after Amerigo "America"

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