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What was Vespucci looking for?

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Anonymous

7y ago
Updated: 9/7/2021

Amerigo Vespucci was looking for the land Columbus had sailed to (that everyone thought was China). When Amerigo got there he realized it didn't match the descriptions in Marco Polo's book. The land soon got named America after Amerigo.

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