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Amerigo Vespucci
By Sharon Fabian |
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1 Students in Renaissance Europe learned about three continents. To the south of their own continent there was Africa, and to the east there was Asia. Europeans had made long and dangerous journeys to Asia for years. By the 1400s, mapmakers and geographers were starting to think that there might be a better way. Maybe it was possible to sail west across the ocean to Asia.