why has America been named after the sailor, Amerigo Vespucci?

Question

since it was Columbus who reached America first.

Answer 1

Amerigo figured out that it wasn't India, and that there was a continent, not just some islands.

Answer 2

Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 -February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502. On the second of these voyages he discovered that South America extended much further south than previously known by Europeans. This convinced him that this land was part of a new continent, a bold contention at a time when other European explorers crossing the Atlantic Ocean thought they were reaching Asia.


Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe after two accounts attributed to him were published between 1502 and 1504.[1] In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the new continent "America" after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo.

Answer 3

No,
It is time to learn history properly!

Columbus did not discover America. In fact Columbus landed somewhere near the Caribbean only.

It was Amerigo Vespucci, the great sailor from Italy I believe who first landed on the present day America. I think the year was 1495 or something. I am not sure about the year.

Answer 4

It was all a Big MISTAKE!!! Amerigo didn't discover CRAP!!! Read.

Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe after two accounts attributed to him were published between 1502 and 1504. In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the new continent "America" after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo. In an accompanying book, Waldseemüller published one of the Vespucci accounts, which led to criticisms of Vespucci as trying to usurp Christopher Columbus's glory. However, the rediscovery in the 18th century of other letters by Vespucci has led to the view that the early published accounts were fabrications, not by Vespucci, but by others.

Amerigo never claimed to discover anything.. Waldseemuller put his name on the new land in 1507 and the name caught on. In fact it was taught until the 1700's that Amerigo Vespuchi discovered America, although these were based on false stories about Vespucci.

Answer 5

Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 -February 22, 1512) was an Italian merchant, explorer and cartographer. He played a senior role in two voyages which explored the east coast of South America between 1499 and 1502. On the second of these voyages he discovered that South America extended much further south than previously known by Europeans. This convinced him that this land was part of a new continent, a bold contention at a time when other European explorers crossing the Atlantic Ocean thought they were reaching Asia.

Statue at the Uffizi, Florence.Vespucci's voyages became widely known in Europe after two accounts attributed to him were published between 1502 and 1504. In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the new continent "America" after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo. In an accompanying book, Waldseemüller published one of the Vespucci accounts, which led to criticisms of Vespucci as trying to usurp Christopher Columbus's glory. However, the rediscovery in the 18th century of other letters by Vespucci has led to the view that the early published accounts were fabrications, not by Vespucci, but by others.

Vespucci was born in 1454 to a prominent family in Florence, Italy. As a young man he read widely and collected books and maps. He began working for local bankers and was sent to Spain in 1492 to look after his employer's business interests.

While in Spain, Amerigo Vespucci began working on ships and ultimately went on his first expedition as a navigator in 1499. This expedition reached the mouth of the Amazon River and explored the coast of South America. Vespucci was able to calculate how far west he had traveled by observing the conjunction of Mars and the Moon.

On his second voyage in 1501, Amerigo Vespucci sailed under the Portuguese flag. After leaving Lisbon, it took Vespucci 64 days to cross the Atlantic Ocean due to light winds. His ships followed the South American coast to within 400 miles of the southern tip, Tierra del Fuego.

While on this voyage, Vespucci wrote two letters to a friend in Europe. He described his travels and was the first to identify the New World of North and South America as separate from Asia. (Until he died, Columbus thought he had reached Asia.)

Amerigo Vespucci also described the culture of the indigenous people, and focused on their diet, religion, and what made these letters very popular - their sexual, marriage, and childbirth practices. The letters were published in many languages and were distributed across Europe (they were a much better seller than Columbus' own diaries).

Amerigo Vespucci was named Pilot Major of Spain in 1508. Vespucci was proud of this accomplishments, "I was more skillful than all the shipmates of the whole world." Vespucci's third voyage to the New World was his last for he contracted malaria and died in Spain in 1512 at the age of 58.

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Answer 6

because colombus took the route in 1501A.D and reached a place he thought that it was america then next an american sailor named amerigo vespucci took the same route as colombus and reached america therefore america was named after amerigo vespucci.

Answer 7

Amerigo wanted to find a sea way to India so he rode through a peace and clam ocean which was Atlantic ocean and he reached some islands near America which he thought that it is India.but before he did vascoda gamma said that what Vespucci discovered was not India.seeing his courage and adventures spirit Columbus had named it as America

Answer 8

The vikings found newfoundland centuries before Columbus. (It's in Canada.)

It is probable that the natives described by the Norsemen as skraelings were Beothuk inhabitants of Labrador and Newfoundland. The first conflicts between Europeans and native peoples may have occurred around 1006 at L'Anse aux Meadows when parties of Norsemen attempted to establish permanent settlements along the coast of Newfoundland. According to Norse sagas, the native skraelings responded so ferociously that the newcomers eventually withdrew and apparently gave up their original intentions to settle.

Answer 9

colombus never actually rached to coast of either north or south americas, only some islands in teh caribbean. Vespucci was teh first sailor to reach the mainland

Answer 10

columbus reached the islands of the carribean, vespucci claimed to be the first to reach the mainland of america

Answer 11

Columbus was not the first to reach America. He was truly a bad person and he should not get the false credit that so many people give him.