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Birth Certificate of America

Birth Certificate of America. What is wrong with this map?. Columbus thought this was a correct map of the world when he took his first voyage in 1492. Waldseemueller Map of 1507 How is this one different from Columbus’ map? . What’s still not right?. Waldseemueller map 1507.

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Birth Certificate of America

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  1. Birth Certificate of America

  2. What is wrong with this map?

  3. Columbus thought this was a correct map of the world when he took his first voyage in 1492

  4. Waldseemueller Map of 1507How is this one different from Columbus’ map?

  5. What’s still not right? Waldseemueller map 1507

  6. Do you see “America?” This map is called the Birth Certificate of America because it is the first map with the word “America” on it. (Waldseemueller 1507)

  7. Lief Ericson • Going west from Greenland to Vinland – (992)

  8. Christopher Columbus • Most European sailors thought that taking a westward voyage from Europe to Asia would be impossible as crews would die of starvation or thirst before reaching Asia. (1492)

  9. Amerigo Vespucci • “These lands should be called the New World, because none of those countries were known to our ancestors . . . I have found a continent in that southern part more populous and more full of animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa.” (1499)

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