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914 words, approx. 3 pages Amerigo Vespucci Born March 18, 1454, Florence, Italy Died February 22, 1512, Seville, Spain Amerigo Vespucci was the first to determine that South America was a separate, previously unknown continent that was not a part of Asia. He also worked out a...
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609 words, approx. 2 pages 1454-1512 Italian Merchant and Geographer Amerigo Vespucci was one of the most important personalities of the European Age of Exploration. His vast knowledge of geography would set the stage for the European colonization of the Western...
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 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...




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Amerigo Vespucci, Corporate Strategy and Human Circuses
05/06/1993: 803 words, approx. 3 pages Logic? Rationality? Cause and effect? Can't live without 'em. And I suppose you'll also tell me the naming of America was a just reward for a bold explorer. Jack Hitt, writing in the March issue of The Washington Monthly ("Original Spin: How Lurid...
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The birth of Amerigo Vespucci: March 9th, 1454.(Months Past)
03/01/2004: 658 words, approx. 2 pages AMERICA was named by mistake. The claim that Amerigo Vespucci discovered the mainland of the New World before Columbus has long been discredited and even the traditional date of his birth, March 9th, was apparently that of someone else of the same name,...
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U.S. given German map that named America
4/30/2007: 388 words, approx. 1 pages German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday officially handed over to the United States the 500-year-old map that was the first to tell the world of a new land it called America.Library of Congress historians say the world map, completed by German-born cleric and cartographer Martin...
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Chart topper: 'America' turns 500
4/24/2007: 711 words, approx. 2 pages Centuries before it became a continent or country synonymous with wealth, power, freedom or democracy, "America" was coined by a Renaissance cartographer as the catchall designation for a world that Europeans had yet to name or explore.The name stuck despite its humble history and unsure...



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