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During Vespucci's time, Christopher Columbus tried to find a new route from Europe to Asia. He sailed across the Atlantic and landed in what he thought was Asia. But in reality, he discovered a whole new land mass: the Americas. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who told the world that this land mass wasn't Asia, but was an unseen land mass. The continents were then named after him in his honor.

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