Who Discovered America?

shadowing
Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:30:42 +0000

A lot of you people are mixing up the facts here.

America is indeed named after Amerigo Vespucci. A cartographer named Martin Waldseemüller labeled the ‘unknown continent’ on his map America after Amerigo Vespucci as Vespucci was the one known for ‘discovering’ it. Later, people would realize Columbus technically discovered the Americas first.

As to who really discovered America, I suggest you guys go read the book 1492.