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I hear 🇮🇹 is renaming this place Vespucciland
4 upvotes, 2 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "I hear 🇮🇹 is renaming this place Vespucciland"
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Anonymous 10w

Because Amerigo Vespucci’s voyages were not very historically influential. His name is important mostly just from being put on a map.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 10w

I guess that’s an exaggeration because he was important as an early voyager and helped us realize this wasn’t Asia. But it was other voyages that actually found the Americas (Caribbean, Brazil, and Newfoundland) which was the really important thing.

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