From the explorer Amerigo Vesspucci
EDIT: Actually I believe the answer given is incorrect. It's most likely Richard Ameryk. Reason;
Richard Ameryk. Probably meaning "son of Morris": ap Meurig. Not everyone believes this theory, but it is quite convincing. One of the reasons it's not convincing that it was Amerigo Vespucci is that countries were never named after somebody's Christian name, unless they were royal, like Prince Edward Island or Victoria or something. But otherwise, it's Cook Islands etc.
So it should be Vespuccia, if it were to be named after him. John Cabot, who was the first European to set foot on . . . on what we now consider mainland United States, was commissioned by this man Ameryk, who probably had his name on the map, and it would have been known as Ameryk's Land, and then America.
This is perhaps the most convincing theory and possibly the correct one also.
WRONG. The Ameryk theory has been totally discarded by recognized historians for years now. First of all, John Cabot's real name was Giovanni Caboto. Secondly, the assertion that exclusive or even majority funding came from Ameryk is also erroneous. (Note: See Wikipedia - "Dr Alwyn Ruddock claimed to have found evidence that Cabot actually went first to London and received backing from the Italian community there. In particular, she suggested he found a patron in the form of Fr. Giovanni Antonio de Carbonariis, an Augustinian friar who was also the deputy to the papal tax collector Adriano Castellesi."
It is most likely that Caboto/Cabot viewed or received maps from these same sources. Maps prepared by Vespuccia.
(NOTE SEE Wikipedia) "Ruddock suggested that it was Carbonariis, who certainly accompanied Cabot's 1498 expedition and who was on good terms with the King, who introduced the explorer to Henry VII. Beyond this, Ruddock claimed that Cabot received a loan from an Italian banking house in London 'to go and discover new lands'. Determining the basis of Ruddock's claims is difficult, since she ordered the destruction of all her research notes on her death in 2005.[20] However, since that time, researchers on what has now become The Cabot Project , have been engaged in a hunt to relocate her evidence. On the matter of Cabot's sponsorship, Dr Evan Jones (University of Bristol) reported to the Canadian press in October 2010 that Dr Francesco Guidi Bruscoli (University of Florence), had now found the ledger which contains the loan made to Cabot in 1496.[21] The sum involved was significant, albeit not enough to have completely financed even a single expedition.
On 5 March 1496 King Henry VII of England gave Cabot letters patent with the following charge:
...free authority, faculty and power to sail to all parts, regions and coasts of the eastern, western and northern sea, under our banners, flags and ensigns, with five ships or vessels of whatsoever burden and quality they may be, and with so many and with such mariners and men as they may wish to take with them in the said ships, at their own proper costs and charges, to find, discover and investigate whatsoever islands, countries, regions or provinces of heathens and infidels, in whatsoever part of the world placed, which before this time were unknown to all Christians."
SORRY, THE AMERYK THEORY JUST DOESN'T FLOAT.
South America and North America were named after Amerigo Vespucci in 1507. Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who was the first person to realize that the Americas were completely separate from Asia, when he mapped the eastern coast of South America in 1502.
it was named after the man who discovered that the land Christopher colombus found was not Asia but it was a new land. so it was named in honor of his name.
his name was Amerigo Vespucci
Sorry to say that I cannot put a comment about this subject in the right place. Apparently, everybody believes that what is stated, above, that the USA is named after Amerigo Vespucci. If people conducted proper research they would find it is named after Richard Ameryk, a wealthy Welshman. However, who am I with my many international publications and respected for going to primary sources for my research materials.
Because a German map maker named it after Amerigo Vespucci because he was the first person to prove that America was a "New World" so he called it Amerigo but accidentally miss spelled it so it America.
Named for Amergio Vespucci. He was an Italian cartographer (map maker) and explorer.
America was founded by Amerigo Vespucci and was named in honor of him. :D
Amerigo Vespucci.
America is derived from the name of Amerigo Vespucci.
North America and South America
give the name of some occult groups in u.s and north america
hotogs. dont try to give it a fancy name.
No, Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer who give a feminized version of his name, "America" to the continents of North and South America.
he was on his 4th voyage across central America
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The Declaration seems to be the first official use of "The United States of America".
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the name is america it never had a diffrent name
The United States of America is the full name.
No, America did not give financial support to Europe after the World War 1.