I think about the alternate universe where they went with the mapmaker's last name and not his first name and now we all live in the United States of Vespugia and people are "Proud to be a Vespugian" and so forthhttps://twitter.com/CelticAnarchy/status/1301448481903718400 …
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They said the credit for "discovering the New World" should go to the first explorer who actually understood he was in a different continent when he went there and didn't keep on insisting he'd just gone all the way around to Asia
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Hence giving the credit to Amerigo Vespucci, who is now mostly remembered just for this fact
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apparently he wasn't exactly very popular in his time because they knew he was shitty and incompetent. So it makes sense people went for a different name first.
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