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    Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy and originally worked as a banker. He was inspired to travel to Spain where he became interested in exploration. Vespucci took part in four voyages of exploration, traveling along the coasts of South America which led him to realize these lands were not Asia but a separate continent. His calculations and discoveries helped determine the true size of the Earth and length of the equator.

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    Amerigo Vespucci was born in Florence, Italy and originally worked as a banker. He was inspired to travel to Spain where he became interested in exploration. Vespucci took part in four voyages of exploration, traveling along the coasts of South America which led him to realize these lands were not Asia but a separate continent. His calculations and discoveries helped determine the true size of the Earth and length of the equator.

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    Life of Vespucci

    Elizabeth, Emma,
    Jake, & Devon

    Birth place

    Inspiration place
    &
    Later became a citizen

    Banker

    His career lead him to be inspired by


    being made to travel to Spain. While in
    Spain he was inspired by the craze of
    exploration.

    Voyage
    s

    Voyage #1
    Surface level research in
    South America. South
    America was still identified
    as Asia.

    Voyage #3
    Goal was to explore around
    Southern Africa. But,
    explored the mouth of the
    Amazon River.

    Voyage #3
    Biggest voyage.
    Traveled all the
    way down the
    coast of South
    America.
    Vespucci started
    to think they
    were not actually
    exploring Asia.

    Voyage #4
    On the eastern coast of
    Brazil.
    Not much happened and
    they didn't discover
    anything new.

    1.) Method for


    determining the length
    of the equator

    2.) helped determine the


    size of the earth

    Vespuccis Discoveries

    3.) He calculated the length


    of the equator within eighty
    kilometers of the true size

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