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_____________ ____________	He sailed in 1499 -- _______
was an _________ __________	years after Columbus first
who was born at __________,	landed in the West Indies.
March 9, _________ _______	*SEVEN
____ (date).	During his first voyage
*AMPERAGE VESPUCCI	he explored the northern
	coast of _______ ________
*ITALIAN NAVIGATOR	to well beyond the mouth
	of the Amazon. He gave
*FLORENCE	names like "Gulf of the
	_______," and other Asian
*FOURTEEN FIFTY ONE	place-names he knew
He was the third son of ____	about, to the things
_________ who was a _______	he saw.
of Florencei and his	*SOUTH AMERICA
mother's name was __________.
*SER NASTAGIO	*GANGES
	He also made significant
*NOTARY	improvements in __________
	techniques. During this
*LISABETTA	trip he predicted the earth's
Vespucci received some	_________________ to
of his first ___________	within 50 miles.
from his uncle Giorgio	*NAVIGATIONAL
Antonio, a ______________
who was a teacher of	*CIRCUMFERENCE
the greater part of the	On May 16, 1499, Vespucci
Florentine nobility.	sailed from ______ on
*EDUCATION	his second voyage.
	He directed his course to
*PHILOSOPHER	Cape Verde, crossed
Amerigo studied ____________,	the Equator, and saw
which included the ______	land, on the coast of
language. Evidence of this	_______.
is shown in a letter he	*CADIZ
wrote to his ________
in this language giving	*BRAZIL
an account of his studies.	He followed the coast of
*LITERATURE	South America down
	to within 400 miles of
*LATIN	Tierra del Fuego. He
	returned to Spain in
*FATHER	September, 1500. Amerigo
Amerigo also devoted	made three more voyages
himself to the study of	in 1501, 1503 and 1505.
________, __________,	An obscure _________
____________, and__________.	clergyman and amateur
*PHYSICS	geographer named ___________
	gave the name to the
*GEOMETRY	new found land. He was
	a member of a little __________
*ASTRONOMY	club that published an
	introduction to cosmology
*COSMOGRAPHY	in 1507.
After the death of his	*GERMAN
father, Amerigo was
employed by the _________,	*WALDSEEMULLER
a family under _______ ____
________, a wealthy _______	*LITERARY
who were given control	In it he wrote of the new
of certian parts of the	land mass that Vespucci
country.	had explored: "I see no
*MEDICIS	reason why anyone
	should justly object
*COSIMO DE MEDICI	to calling this part ...
	___________, after
*BANKER	Amerigo [Vespucci],
They sent him to look	its discoverer, a man
after their ____-__________	of great ability.
business, which operated	*AMERICA
out of Seville, about	Amerigo Vespucci married
the time Columbus made	_______ _________,
his first voyage.	who later died in 1524
*SHIP OUTFITTING	having no __________.
Vespucci finally prepared	Amerigo died at Seville,
his own ________ in quest	February 22, _________
of the passage to the ________	_________ (date).
subcontinent that had	*MARIA CEREZO
eluded Columbus.
*VOYAGE	*CHILDREN
*INDIAN	*FIFTEEN TWELVE

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