It was given its name by "Americans" but by a German map maker who had read Vespucci's account of finding North America so he named it after him.
The most famous of the early mapmakers was a Greek geographer named "Ptolemy"A+
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Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer, has two continents named after him: North America and South America.
Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer, navigator, and mapmaker who explored part of the east coast of South America and wrote about his voyages. In 1507, Martin Waldseemüller produced a world map on which he named the new continent America after Vespucci's first name, Amerigo.
Amerigo Vespucci i think is how you spell it
Amerigo Vespucci, Italian map maker. He mapped it and had no idea what to call it, so he signed his name.
No. He didn't have a daughter and he only had 3 sons. The term "America" comes from a German map maker much later.
No, the term American comes from the word America. The "new world" was named America by an Italian map maker.
He lied about finding North America and other things in his book, but a German map maker believed him and named North America after him.
It wasn’t named America, but Plymouth. North America was named America because of a German map maker believed that Amerco Vespucci found the continent because of his claim in his book. Vespucci only reach South America and was never in North America.
A Spanish explorer didn't name America. It was a German map maker who had read Amerigo Vespucci's account of his exploring "America" and named it after him. There is no proof that he was actually came to North America.
A German mapmaker named Martin Waldseemüller named the continent of America after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who made several voyages to the New World. Waldseemüller's map, published in 1507, was one of the first to label the continents of the Western Hemisphere as "America."
A 'map maker' is correctly named as a 'Cartographer'.
America was named after an Italian explorer named Amerigo Vespucci who actually arrived in the continent before Columbus though there was no evidence of that voyage.Amerigo Vespucci.
It was given its name by "Americans" but by a German map maker who had read Vespucci's account of finding North America so he named it after him.
A German map maker named the continent after Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who made several voyages to the Americas.