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Aha-Moment: Why Is It Called America?
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Christopher Columbus discovered America – but why wasn't the continent named after him?We owe that to Martin Waldseemüller, who grew up in Freiburg. Because he drew together with a colleague in 1507 the first world map with the then new continent. The two chose the name "America", in honor of Amerigo Vespucci. Because he was the one who discovered America for the first time as his own continent, because Columbus thought all the time he was in a …
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