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Amerigo Vespucci's findings were important because they challenged the prevailing belief that Christopher Columbus had reached Asia when he landed in the Americas. Vespucci's voyages helped popularize the idea that a new continent had been discovered, leading to the use of the term "America" in his honor. This contributed to the eventual recognition of the Americas as separate continents.
Amergo Vespucci didn’t have the map maker name North America after him, but after reading Vespucci’s book that he had discovered North America he named the continent after him. Actually Vespucci lied in his book and never reached North America.
Amerigo Vespucci did not go to China. He was an Italian explorer who traveled to the Americas. It was Christopher Columbus who was attempting to find a western route to China when he discovered the Americas instead.
Amerigo Vespucci did not necessarily "prove Columbus wrong." The discrepancy between Columbus' belief that he had reached Asia and Vespucci's realization that he had discovered a new continent led to the use of the name "America" in his honor. This occurred during the early 1500s.
John Cabot
the conclusion that Vespucci had formed about the lands that he, Columbus, and Cabato had reached is that the land he, Columbus, and cabato had reached was not Asia. The land that they had found had to be another Continent.....the "new world" that some Europeans thought might be there.
Marco Polo
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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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Martin Frobisher, an English explorer, believed he had reached China in 1576 but actually landed in what is now Canada. He encountered white bears and stags, mistaken for signs of civilization.
On christopher Columbus's 1st voyage he landed in the Americas which he thought was India
No explorer had that experience.