Amerigo Vespucci

Through the descriptive letters from a Florentine merchant, Amerigo Vespucci, Ringmann and Waldseemüller were able to formulate a textbook titled, Introduction to Cosmography, as well as create a massive map, which revealed a missing piece of the known world. These works were largely known to be extinct, yet one was discovered in the later half of the 19th century. The most significant information revealed…

explore. Exploration and Navigation is still part of our lives today, though we are now exploring outer space. In the 15th and 16th Centuries, Europeans wanted to trade with those in the far east. In order to do this by land, the Europeans had to cross various countries’ land, including the Ottoman Empire, to get to the East. These navigators, were able to develop routes to the East by sea that became easier for European nations. Each navigator showed courage to discover paths and build off of…

Tangtawan Utidwanakul - Ing 5380264 World History A - Essay Assignment Letter of Amerigo Vespucci America, is considered to be the undiscovered place according to Europeans before 1500s. It was actually the land where European called ‘New World’- it was until letter of Amerigo Vespucci has been published in Florence during 1505-1506. Vespucci himself as an Italian explorer, born in the city of Florence and is known to have been through number of voyages. Vespucci letter, was written to Pier…

The discovery of the Americas and the reformation of Europe had major impacts on Western Civilization. Columbus set out to find the Americas in order to find riches. In North America, the French set out to find a new passage way to China. In 1492 Columbus first reached the Americas. Amerigo Vespucci, led the voyage across the Atlantic, which ultimately led to the naming of Americas after Amerigo. Fifteen years after Ferdinand and Isabella expelled all Jews from Spain and the last Muslims out of…

history. Amerigo Vespucci was a man of great confidence and had a certain desire for escapades. He went on many journeys across the world, discovering new lands while jotting down the things he dealt with…

their country. But, what of the people that were already settled in America where Columbus had been so quick to claim for Spain? These people were the real settlers of America, the Native Americans as they would be called later on in history.      For a long time in America’s history and even up until I was in Elementary School, it was being taught that Christopher Columbus was in fact the discoverer of America. The truth, as we all know is that he could not have…

This great country we live in called America was named after one of history’s important contributors. It was named after an Italian-born explorer and merchant named Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo was born in 1451 in Florence, Italy. He was born into a family of culture. His uncle, Giorgio Antonio Vespucci, a Dominican Friar was his educator instead of him attending to the University of Pisa as his older brothers did. His father was a notary in Florence and one of his other uncles was an…

found on who inspired him to begin exploring, Christopher Columbus. Amerigo Vespucci is the man that will be spoke of in this essay. Vespucci was an Italian explorer just like Christopher Columbus, but they sailed under different flags. Vespucci was a mapmaker and a merchant out of Florence. Vespucci was known as “a skilled navigator, and…

Amerigo Vespucci was an explorer who found the new world. He came from a very connected family. Amerigo was born in Italy and was best known for being the founder of the new world, or as called today the Americas. It was a big discovery when people figured out that Amerigo was actually the founder of our country. Amerigo’s childhood he had a lot of humanist education and he grew up in Italy with both parents. Amerigo was born on March 9th 1454. He was born and raised in Florence,…

Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1451 in Florence Italy. He was one of the sons of Sir Nastagio and Lisabetta Mini (Biography.com). Amerigo had three brothers and was a middle child(Learnodo). Amerigo Vespucci’s family was good friends with the Medici family. The Medicis were a rich family that ruled Italy from the 1400’s to 1737. Amerigo had many jobs working for the Medici’s later in his life (Biography.com). Amerigo had an uncle on his father’s side named Georgio Antonio Vespucci. His…