SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
RISE OF THE SLAVE TRADE BLACK HISTORY IN COLONIAL AMERICA
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Christopher Columbus named them America in honor of his good friend.
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It means land between 2 oceans, a Spanish cartographer added it to a map and it stuck.
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It was the name that Native Americans used and the European cartographers recorded it.
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A German cartographer named it after Amerigo Vespucci after reading about his visit to (now) South America.
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Detailed explanation-1: -America is NOT named after Amerigo Vespucci simply because countries were named after SURNAMES and not FIRST names. If he had discovered the land, it would be known as Vespucciland. The country was named after Richard Ameryk, a Bristol merchant who paid for the voyage of discovery, several years before Vespucci.
Detailed explanation-2: -Thomas Jefferson is credited as being the first person to come up with the name, which he used while drafting the Declaration of Independence.
Detailed explanation-3: -He sailed in 1499–seven years after Columbus first landed in the West Indies. 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.