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Amerigo Vespucci
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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci
(; March 9, 1454February 22, 1512) 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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