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Who Named the Americas?
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:07:43
Publish Date: 2025-12-04 23:21:09
Description:

In the early 1500s, a sailor by the name of Amerigo Vespucci published lurid pamphlets about his travels to a distant continent. Learn how a pair of mapmakers regretted naming that continent after him in this episode of BrainStuff, based on this article: https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/amerigo-vespucci.htm

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