[michigander]

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[BGHater]

Great post, thanks.

[fishtank]

BFLR: I’m waiting for some smart Freepers to add some insight here...

[wagglebee]

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[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Interesting.

[agere_contra]

Americi (or Amerigo) Vespucci, after whom America is named, is shown on the top right of the map.

[SunkenCiv]

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[maine-iac7]

"it was still erroneously believed that the lands discovered by Christopher Columbus, Vespucci, and others formed part of the Indies of Asia. "

NOT

Vespucci recognized what Columbus did not - that these lands were NOT the back end of the Indies, but an entirely new continent - and he explored all down the coast, interacting with many different groups of natives...just in his first voyage in 1497 - *He reported on this in great detail, not just the people, flora and fauna but the latitudes and longitudes, coast line, harbors and rivers - and excursions inland - made another voyage in 1502 and possibly another in 1503 - all BEFORE this map was made ---- duh

[maine-iac7]

and then of course there were other people - not explorers prima facie, but settlers - 500 years before Columbus and Vespucci = like Eric and son, Leif to Greenland - Leif explored all down the east coast of N. America - a thousand years ago - and Sir Henry I Sinclair, Earl of Orkney and several hundred who sailed to and settled in Nova Scotia in the late 1300's - and there are evidences of many more - Like St. Brendan's purported voyage in the 6th cent.

North America was well known to the sea going navigators well before Columbus = but we don't hear much about them because they weren't 'explorers' out to find riches not were they funded by the potentates.

They were people who merely wanted, quietly, to find safe harbor out from under the kings and/or the church, to live their lives to their own dictates.

[abner]

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