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Hace 16 horas · A 1621 map of North America General map of North America in 1908 from The Harmsworth atlas and Gazetter. The Americas were named after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci by German cartographers Martin Waldseemüller and Matthias Ringmann. Vespucci explored South America between 1497 and 1502, and was the first European to suggest that the Americas represented a landmass not then known to ...
