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=__** ﻿ Amerigo Vespucci and His LIfe On the Seas **__=

By: Nick O'Donnell, Frank Bell, Samuel Nuttle, and Mason Randall

Amerigo was born on March 9, 1451 in the city of Florence, Italy. He died on February 22, 1512 in the city of Seville, Spain. A Florentine navigator and pilot major of Castile, Spain, Amerigo Vespucci, for whom America is named, played a major part in exploring the New World. This is plagiarism

Where did he go?
Amerigo was Lorenzo Medici's steward, but he went to Spain to learn about ships. Amerigo Vespucci went to America, and it was named for him. Amerigo was not always the leader. In fact, on his earliest journeys to South America, he was an observer, a scientist. Though Columbus found America, it wasn't named after him. Columbus didn't name America because he believed that he was in Asia. Though the natives were different and the plants weren't similar to the actual Asian plants, Columbus believed it was Asia because he had never been there. Amerigo found out that the land wasn't Asia, so it was named after him. Amerigo split ways with the ship's leaders on one of his South America trips, and was the first European to find Brazil. He also captured 200 native Americans and brought them back to Spain. In a way, Amerigo started early slavery. On his second journey, he found the Amazon river. After an unsuccessful trip to Brazil for the king, he returned home. After that, he was pronounced the Pilot Major of Castile, Spain. Ironically, he never sailed again. He died an honored man, but as the years went on, he was considered a liar who was stealing credit from Columbus.

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"Amerigo Vespucci Biography - Life, Family, Childhood, Name, Death, Young, Book, Old, Information, Born." //Encyclopedia of World Biography//. Web. 04 May 2011. <[]>. "According to a controversial letter, Vespucci embarked from Cadiz, Spain, in a Spanish fleet on May 10, 1497." "In 1503 Amerigo sailed in Portuguese service again to Brazil, but this expedition failed to make new discoveries. The fleet broke up, the Portuguese commander's ship disappeared, and Vespucci could proceed only a little past Bahia before returning to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1504. He never sailed again."

"Answers.com - What Is a Famous Quote by Amerigo Vespucci." // WikiAnswers - The Q&A Wiki //. Web. 09 May 2011. []. "Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... we may rightly call a New World... a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us." "Amerigo Vespucci Letter to Pier Soderini, Gonfalonier of the Republic of Florence 1497." Web. 9 May 2011. []. "and we thereon made sail for Spain with 222 captive slaves: and reached the port of Calis (//Cadiz //) on the 15th day of October, 1498, where we were well received and sold our slaves. Such is what befell me, most noteworthy, in this my first voyage."

**-Amerigo Vespucci**


= = =**About Him** =

Amerigo Vespucci was educated by his Uncle, and was a young business man involved in trading goods, which is how he became familiar with ships. He moved to Spain in 1491, to work in the trading business there. He helped Columbus with his 2nd and his 3rd voyage to the New World. Vespucci was a skilled navigator, and since he was interested in trading goods, he was always interested in finding an easy way to sail Asia. Amerigo Vespucci mapped and explored the east coast of South America. "Amerigo Vespucci sailed to Brazil first, on May, 10, 1497." Vespucci went to India and Brazil in the 1500. Amerigo Vespucci sailed in Portuguese service to Brazil, but the fleet broke up, and the ship disappeared. Amerigo then sailed from Lisbon to Cape Verde May 14, 1501. He then sailed until January 1st, where he arrived in a gulf near South America. Uzielli, Gustavo. "Amerigo Vespucci." __The Catholic Encyclopedia.__ Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 6 May 2011 []


 * Amerigo Vespucci went on four voyages in a span of 7 years. The most famous one was his second voyage, which left on May 16th, 1499. He set sail with Alonzo de Ojeda on route to Cape Verde. They crossed the Equator and explored the coast of Guiana and Brazil. They discovered Cape St. Augustine and the River Amazon. In September of 1500 he returned to Spain. When he returned, he went on another voyage to Cape Verde on May 14, 1501. **

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** The reason he wanted to sail was because Amerigo wanted to show everyone that where they were sailing to, "Asia", was not really Asia; But a new world. He was correct. Correct for spelling. **

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Answers.com - What Was the Name of Amerigo Vespucci's Ship." // WikiAnswers - The Q&A Wiki //. Web. 09 May 2011. [].
 * The name of Amerigo Vespucci's ships were San antiago, Repertaga, Wegiz, anf GIrmand. Really?? **

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