Vespucci was the one person for whom
North and South America was named after. Vespucci had a
wonderful life and found many things on his voyages.
Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy in March of
1451, and grew up in a considerable mansion near the river.
As a young boy, Amerigo\'s happiest moments studying the
stars. He excelled in mathematics and his hobby was
copying maps. His dream as a young boy was to travel and
get a better picture about what the Earth looked like.
Amerigo spent half of his life as a business man hoping to
strike it rich so he could explore. Amerigo was the third son,
there were two older brothers, Antonio and Girolamo, the
youngest was Bernardo. The parents were Stagio and
Elisabetta Vespucci. Italy, at this time was not yet a civilized
country. Italy was a bunch of city- states each self governed
and looking for money for it\'s own purposes and not for the
benefit of the country. Florence, where Amerigo was born
and grew up, was in......
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