No, it was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian serving the country of Portugal during the age of exploration. He sailed up and down the coast and claimed that it was not Asia as it had been thought, but rather a new world. A German cartographer later partially mapped and named the "new world" after Vespucci. Till this day, the area he explored is known as the Americas, and includes South, Central, and North America. Yes, it was named after Columbus was named...and it was named (as the first answer states) in honor of Mr. Vespucci. By the same token, I'll bet you were also named after Columbus.
So the question was when did the pilgrams land on this continent? And the answer is so they landed in 1620s.
they were called monquisitors.]
Spanish Explorers and Conquerors of the New World were called 'Conquistadors'.
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New York was part of what the Dutch called New Netherland, which also included New Jersey, Delaware, Connecticut and parts of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island.
They actullay called them new world
America was referred to as the "New World".
So the question was when did the pilgrams land on this continent? And the answer is so they landed in 1620s.
America was referred to as the "New World".
because people haven't found the land yet so when Christopher Columbus found it he named it the new world
because the Americas werent discovered until 1492, and no one in Eurasia and Africa knew of this new landmass, so they called it the new world.
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It is called "Outta This World"
Justin Bieber's new album will be called My World.
The era where many plants, animals, diseases, and people were exchanged between the Old World and New World was called the Columbian Exchange.