Vespucci

 **The Explorer...**      __**   Amerigo Vespucci   **__

** __ Introduction  __ ** Vespucci was born in 1454, in Florence, Italy and died in 1512, in Seville, Spain. As a young man he worked as a merchant and studied navigation. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian merchant, explorer, and cartographer. The claim that Amerigo Vespucci discovered the New World before Columbus has long been discredited. Even the traditional date of his birth, March 9th, belonged to someone else of the same name, born in a different year. Amerigo Vespucci started exploring in the year of 1499. ** __

Purpose __ ** Vespucci's purpose was to explore the Americas. He was one of the first Europeans to realize that the new lands weren't a part of Asia, but were actually what we now call the "New World". **__  Route of Journey   __** H e traveled to South America on a Spanish expedition in 1499 and on a Portuguese expedition in 1501. Vespucci perhaps did accompany a Spanish Expedition that of Alonzo de Ojeda-to South America in 1499. Vespucci went from Seville, Spain to South America since explorers from Italy would have had experience in the Mediterranean Sea. __**Hardships Faced**__ Vespucci got lost on his expedition to Asia and many people did not believe that he had discovered the Americas. On one of his expeditions, he was forced to turn back because of strong currents. When the letters he wrote got back to Europe, the writers thought his story was boring so they thought they would "spice it up" by writing some false facts. Some people thought that he was an in-and-out faker. A German cartologist named the new continent America, after Amerigo Vespucci, the first European to reach Bonaire Island or Buen Aire Island. Scholars today don't think he made a voyage in 1497. Vespucci raided in the Bahamas for slaves and returned to Spain in the 1500s. Two continents were name after him. Amerigo was sent by the Medici to operate their operations in Seville. Vespucci contributed to the discovery of the Americas and the Amazon River. ** __Bibliography__ ** __Websites__ [|www.elibrary.bigchalk.com] http://elibrary.bigchalk.com/curriculumca. http://library.thinkquest.org/J002678F/vespucci.htm [|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci] [|http://geography.about.com/cs/historicalgeog/a/amerigo.htm<span]
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__Books__ Burton, Rosemary, Richard Cavendish, and Bernard Stonehouse. __Journeys of the Great Explorers__.Hampshire: \AA Publishing, 1992. __Encyclopedias__ "Amerigo Vespucci." __World Book Encyclopedia__. 2000 ed. __Videos__  __Glossary__  Discredited- To cause disbelief in the accuracy or authority Cartographer: One who makes maps

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