Amerigo Vespucci

Career Accomplishments

• He discovered Rio de Janeiro
• He discovered the Amazon river
• America was named after him
• Might have discovered Venezuala 

Time Line

• Born March 9, 1451
• First voyage was May 10, 1497
• May 14, 1501 he discovered Rio de Janeiro
• 1508 named Master Navigator of Spain
• February 22, 1512 died from malaria

Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... we may rightly call a New World... a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us."

Amerigo Vespucci

He used ships for explorations

A compass was important so he knew where to go

America was named after him

He was born is Florence, Italy.

Sources

• http://thinkexist.com/quotes/amerigo_vespucci/
• http://www.biography.com/people/amerigo-vespucci-9517978
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerigo_Vespucci