Amerigo Vespucci: Facts, Biography & Naming of America

Friday, January 10, 2014 - 22:00 in Paleontology & Archaeology

America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, an explorer who first recognized that the lands in the New World were previously unknown continents.

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