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.
Since it is not called Vespucci, that would be America.
The German mapmaker who named the New World after Amerigo Vespucci is Martin Waldseemüller. He published a world map in 1507 that named the landmass "America" in honor of Vespucci's discoveries in the region.
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.
The German mapmaker named the continent after the Latin term "Africanus" which refers to its Barbary Coast in North Africa.
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."
Amerigo Vespucci is credited with naming the continent "America" after himself, based on his observations during his explorations of the New World in the late 15th century. Though he was not a mapmaker himself, cartographers began using the name in his honor to refer to the newly discovered landmass.
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.
America first appeared on a map in 1507 when the mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller named the land after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine explorer who had recognized that the newly discovered lands were not part of Asia but a separate continent.
christopher colum bus & king guy
a cartographer is a mapmaker
1507-900 = 607