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CLEP Western Civ I

Category - Early Modern Europe

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Amerigo Vespucci’s most notable achievement in exploration was:
  1. Being a writer who coined the term “New World”, though he never went there himself
  2. Being the first European explorer to reach an American continent
  3. Publishing two accounts about explorations to the Americas that demonstrated the land was a “New World,” not part of Asia
  4. Being the first European since the Vikings to reach North America
  5. Being the first European explorer to establish a permanent colony in the Americas
Explanation
Answer: C - Amerigo Vespucci’s two published accounts of voyages to the Americas established that the Europeans had reached “the New World” as he called it, not Asia, as they previously believed. He was an Italian banker for the Medicis who was asked to accompany Portuguese explorers on two voyages to South America as an observer. His two accounts were published between 1502 and 1504. In 1508, he was appointed the chief of navigation for Spain, responsible for charting routes to the West Indies. The continents of the New World were later named in his honor.
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