America
America is named after Amerigo Vespucci. Amerigo was a ship navigator and first came to the new world in 1499. He felt that Columbus had discovered a new continent instead of a new route to Asia, and wrote of this in his letters. These letters made him a celebrity and in 1507 cartographer Martin Waldseemueller created a map showing the new world as "America".
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