FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH EXPLORERS
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Vasco de Balboa
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Christopher Columbus
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Detailed explanation-1: -Amerigo Vespucci was a navigator who made at least two voyages to the Americas, the first time in 1499. He was probably the first to realize that a new continent had been discobvered, not just the coast of Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -Amerigo Vespucci, (born 1454?, Florence, Italy-died 1512, Sevilla, Spain), merchant and explorer-navigator who took part in early voyages to the New World (1499–1500 and 1501–02) and occupied the influential post of piloto mayor (“master navigator”) in Sevilla (1508–12).
Detailed explanation-3: -A map created in 1507 by Martin Waldseemüller was the first to depict this new continent with the name “America, ” a Latinized version of “Amerigo."
Detailed explanation-4: -Amerigo Vespucci: Italian explorer who named America. Amerigo Vespucci was a 16th century navigator, after whom the American continents are named. Jump to: Early life.
Detailed explanation-5: -Vespucci made two voyages between 1499 and 1502 and possibly a third one in 1503. During his first voyage he explored the northern coast of South America to well beyond the mouth of the Amazon. He gave names like “Gulf of the Ganges, ” and other Asian place-names he knew about, to the things he saw.