Allegedly making four transatlantic voyages between 1499 and 1502, the Italian cartographer, financier, explorer, and navigator Amerigo Vespucci participated as an observer at the invitation of king Manuel I of... Portugal.
South America, no one is really sure if he may have explored North America. For sure, it was South America.
He sailed once for Portugal and once for Spain.
Source: biography.com/people/amerigo-vespucci-9517978#!
He departed from Spain and later, Emanuel, Portugal.
King Manuel I of Portugal.
Spain
There were a few explorers who set their sights on South America that came from Portugal. These include Pedro Alvares Cabral, Bartolomeu Dias, and Amerigo Vespucci.
To discover new lands, find gold and riches.
What all explores in this time period were intersted in. Back then spices ( even silks) were a hot camodi. So were riches and anything exravigant,, that European's could no longer get a hold of from the East. So spices, silks, gold, jewelry, just about anything.
This is because Columbus thought he had found the East Indies (Asia). Amerigo, the man after whom America is named, discovered that this was not the Indies but a new world. Columbus died in 1506, still believing that he had found the route to the Asian continent.
Columbus set sail from Europe ... which is north of the equator ... and I'm pretty sure he never crossed it.
1497
Amerigo Vespucci published a map showing the Americas as a separate set of continents, not as part of Asia. America was named in his honor.
Spain and Portugal.
he proved Culumbus wrong and they just found a new continent
There really isnt a set date. Basicly he first sailed to America inbetween 1499-1500. Though somw websites say 1502. It really depends on where you look.
There were a few explorers who set their sights on South America that came from Portugal. These include Pedro Alvares Cabral, Bartolomeu Dias, and Amerigo Vespucci.
Southampton in England
Explorers have set sail for different countries all through history.
America was named after an Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci who actually arrived in the continent before Columbus though there was no evidence of that voyage.Amerigo Vespucci.
Christopher Columbus set sail probably at the age of 18.
To discover new lands, find gold and riches.
Fernando Magellan set sail from Portugal his home country when he went on his expeditionary voyages.