A German mapmaker named Martin Waldseemüller named the continent of America after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who made several voyages to the New World. Waldseemüller's map, published in 1507, was one of the first to label the continents of the Western Hemisphere as "America."
A German map maker named the continent after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who made several voyages to the Americas.
The German mapmaker who named the continent after you was Martin Waldseemüller. In 1507, he created a map that named the newly discovered continent "America" after the explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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A German map maker named the continent after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who made several voyages to the Americas.
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.
A German map maker named it after Amerigo Vespucci.
When the mapmaker German printed the map was that Vespucci name became forever attached to the New World and that is were his trouble began.
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Martin Waldseemuller printed the first map that used the name America and it was named after him in 1507
It was given its name by "Americans" but by a German map maker who had read Vespucci's account of finding North America so he named it after him.
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He didn't . It was a German map maker who did. He believed Vespucci lie about finding North Amercia. Vespucci wrote this in a book, but it has been proven he lied.
It wasn’t named America, but Plymouth. North America was named America because of a German map maker believed that Amerco Vespucci found the continent because of his claim in his book. Vespucci only reach South America and was never in North America.
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