Question

The "New World" was named after which navigator?
A. Vasco da Gama
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Amerigo Vespucci
D. Prince Henry

Answer 1

C

Believing he had discovered a new continent, he called South America the New World. In
1507, America was named after him. He died of malaria in Seville, Spain, on February 22, 1512. Navigator and explorer Amerigo Vespucci, the third son in a cultured family, was born on March 9, 1451, in Florence, Italy.