1500's+Vespucci+(GC)

=AMERIGO VESPUCCI= =1454 - 1512=



__ FACTS __


 * 1) Vespucci was an Italian navigator and one of the first Explorers of the New World.
 * 2) He helped Christopher Columbus on some of his voyages.
 * 3) He went on two voayages for Spain. One voyage was in 1497 and one was in 1499.
 * 4) During his voyages in 1499 and 1501, Vespucci explored 10,000 km (6,000 miles).
 * 5) In 1501, he discovered that South America was a continent and not a series of small islands like they thought they were before.
 * 6) It was a German mapmaker that thought that South America should be named after Amerigo Vespucci.
 * 7) North America was also named after Amerigo Vespucci.
 * 8) Vespucci became the pilot major or chief navigator of Spain in 1508.




 * __References:__**

Facts found in __The New Book of Knowledge,__ Volume 19, by Scholastic Picture of Vespucci found at [] PIcture of ship found at Map found at []

By: Ben Harrison