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Amerigo Vespucci was born on March 9, 1454, in Florence, Italy.
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Vespucci went to Spain to get his boats ready for his voyages.
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He set sail to South America. At the time, the sailors thought they were sailing to the West Indies off to Asia.
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Vespucci was off for his second voyage. He explored Brazil and Argentina.
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Amerigo Vespucci suggest that the world was much larger than we thought. He suspected that that the new land wasn't the West Indies like everyone thought it was.
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Vespucci told everyone when he returned back from his voyages that he found new land. They ended up naming the land after him.
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A forged letter almost got Vespucci into a lot of conflict. It was found out to not be true.
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Amerigo Vespucci ended up dying from malaria.