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What Italian navigator and explorer how was the first to describe the western hemisphere as a unknown continent rather than as a part of Asia the new world was named for him?
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Who was the the Italian explorer and navigator who was the first to describe the western hemisphere as an unknown continent rather than a part of Asia the new world was named for him?
Amerigo Vespucci
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The Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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Italian cartographer and explorer Amerigo Vespuci. He was the first to identify South America as a continent. Ask yourself, how would he be able to do that without having to sail all the way around it? He figured it out by discovering the mouth of the Amazon river. He estimated that a river of that size and volume had to be collecting rain from a watershed the size of Europe. Ergo, he was sailing off a continent, rather than just another large island.
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Who was the the Italian explorer and navigator who was the first to describe the western hemisphere as an unknown continent rather than a part of Asia the new world was named for him?
Amerigo Vespucci
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