Amerigo Vespucci

“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

The 1st voyage

• conducted 1497-98
• founded Venezuela 
• 1 year before columbus
• may not have happend

The 2nd voyage

• Conducted 1499-1500
• Founded amazon river
• Founded Cape of st. Augustine

The 3rd voyage

• conducted 1501-02
• founded new world SA
• This is how america got its name

The 4th and final voyage

• Conducted 1503-05
• forced to end the voyage early
• made little or no new discoveries

Death of Vespucci

• died on february 22 1512
• died of malaria

Works cited

• http://thinkexist.com/quotes/amerigo_vespucci/
• http://www.biography.com/people/amerigo-vespucci-9517978