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Question
Write the information about the Geographical discovery and explorer.
Amerigo Vespucci
Short Note
Solution
- Amerigo Vespucci an Italian explorer is supposed to have gone on expedition on the orders of King of Spain in 1497.
- The land he found was named as ‘Venezuela’.
- In his third expedition by following the river course, he could discover the delta region of the ‘Amazon’.
- It is believed that America was named after Amerigo.
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