Since it is not called Vespucci, that would be America.
Martin Waldseemuller printed the first map that used the name America and it was named after him in 1507
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.
vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci Yet he was Italian not German. ___ I think the mapmaker was German (Martin Waldseemuller), not the man he named the continent after. the first answer was correct. i know cuz im in fifth grade.
I wanna know this to •~• shoot
martin waldseemuller
christopher colum bus & king guy
a cartographer is a mapmaker
1507-900 = 607
1507 was in the 16th century.
Another term for mapmaker is "cartographer".