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United States of America!! A cartographer named the "New World" after Amerigo Vespucci.

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What country did Amerigo Vespucci sail form?

He is born at Florence,Italy


What or where is the origin of the word America?

Early maps of the New World rather prominently displayed the maker, Amerigo Vespucci. The continents of the Americas were named after him.


How do you write an acrostic poem on the name Amerigo Vespucci?

To write an acrostic poem on the name Amerigo Vespucci, start by writing the name vertically down the page. Then, for each letter in the name, come up with a word or phrase that describes or is related to Amerigo Vespucci. Finally, use these words or phrases to form a poem that pays tribute or captures the essence of Amerigo Vespucci.


What country does the word america come from?

Italy, America comes from the Latin feminine form of the Amerigo. This is after Amerigo Vespucci, an explorer who sailed for Spain, and recognized the New World as something different, not as India, which was originally thought by Christopher Columbus. You can find much more on this topic by goggling his name. I hope this helps you.


Where did name America come from?

America got its name by the first explorer of America Amerigo Vespucci.he realized that the land he saw was on the voyage was not Asia. so an German map maker was impressed by Vespucci's account of the land so he named the continent America after him.


What is the last name of the Spanish explorer for whom America is named?

America is named after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci. He is also sometimes referred to by the Latin form of his name, Americus Vespucius.


American was named after this astronomer?

America got is name from Amerigo Vespucci, who was a financier, navigator, explorer, and cartographer (but NOT an astronomer). Martin Waldseemüller, a German cosmologist and cartographer used a form of the Latin version of Vespucci's name to label the newly discovered lands of the Western Hemisphere.


What was Amerigo Vespucci's sail route when he sailed with Columbus?

Vespucci did NOT sail with Columbus. The only reason that America is named after him is that a German map maker read Vespucci's account that he landed on North America. Columbus never did.


Who or what did Amerigo found?

If by Amerigo you mean Amerigo Vespucci? Well, he founded nothing. He affirmed that America was not part of Asia, contrary to the common belief back then. He was an Italian charlatan/cartographer/merchant who managed to convince Europe that he was great and charted the newly-discovered lands to the West. He never actually stole credit form anyone, it was a combined effort with Christopher Columbus, due to proven letters sent and received from both Columbus and Vespucci. So then you really think that both men should receive equal credit.


Where did America get its name from?

The name derived from map annotations credited to Italian explorer and cartographer Amerigo Vespucci of Florence (1454-1512) who was among the first to postulate that the New World was a separate landmass from Asia. The Latin form of his first name is Americus.Many map makers in Europe had considered that the Atlantic Ocean west of Europe might be the same vast body of water as the Pacific Ocean east of China and Japan. Only the Vikings had made poorly-documented journeys to North America south of Greenland. Columbus and others had greatly underestimated the westward distance from Europe to Asia, which took Ferdinand Magellan's expedition 18 months to travel (1519-1521).


What language does the name America come from?

The term America, for the lands of the western hemisphere, is believed to have been coined in 1507 after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer and cartographer. The earliest known use of the name America for this particular landmass dates from April 25, 1507. It appears first on a small globe map with twelve time zones, and then a large wall map created by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in France. The name was derived from the Latinized version of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, Americus Vespucius, in its feminine form, America, as the other continents all have Latin feminine names.


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