Amerigo Vespucci:
a. named the New World after himself.
b. helped to correct Columbus's theory that he had found a route to Asia.
c. agreed with Columbus that Native Americans were East Indians.
d. was funded by the English.
e. actually named the continent Vespucci, but it was changed.
Ans: b. helped to correct Columbus's theory that he had found a route to Asia.
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