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    Reading Amerigo Vespucci  had many obstacles and accomplishments. Do you know what those obstacles and accomplishments were? Do you know what motivated Vespucci? Did Amerigo Vespucci discover America? Maybe you'll be able to answer those questions if you keep reading....  





In 1503, on a journey, led by Amerigo Vespucci himself, Amerigo and his crew sailed in two ships ( 80 men on each) to the south eastern coast of South America. They went along the coast and visited places such as, Cape Soo Roque, Guanabara Bay, Rio de la Plata , Cape  Santo  Agostinho, San Julian, and spotted the Falkland Islands.They returned to Spain in 1504 and told their story to mapmakers to put on the maps. A German mapmaker named Martain Waldseemuller was one of the first to believe that Amerigo was the first European to find the "New World," and suggested they call this place America. Soon the name was used throughout Europe and eventually used officially in the naming of the continent.
                      IMPORTANT
Amerigo Vespucci did not  land on the " New World." Vespucci  explored the east coast of South America and saw  the " New World." When  Vespucci returned to Spain  he told map makers what they and Christopher Columbus thought was Asia was really new land. 

On this journey Amerigo and his crew had some obstacles such as poor maps and navigational tools and inadequate supplies. Most explorers had this problem as well. His motavations were finding the "New World" and getting this area now called America on the map. Vespucci was recognized as the one person whom North and South America was named after. ( That was a motivation.) Another motavation for Vespucci was that he realized  that the lands discovered by Columbus was not Asia but new land!

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