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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer,financier,navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from Columbus ' voyages,but instead constituted an entirely separate landmass hitherto unknown to Afro-Eurasians.Colloquially referred to as the New World,this second super continent came to be termed " America ", deriving its name from Americus,the Latin version of Vespucci's first name.

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