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jan 1, 1501 - Amerigo Vespucci

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Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator, and cartographer from the Florence. Sailing for Portugal around 1501 -1502, Vespucci demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies were not Asia's eastern outskirts but a separate, unexplored land mass colloquially known as the New World. 1454 - 1512

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jan 1, 1501
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~ 525 years ago