Why did the Continent discovered by Columbus receive two names at once New World and America?
| December 8, 2020 | education
The new continent was named the New World, because it was officially discovered for the first time, Europeans did not yet live on it and did not know about it. It was a completely new world with its own culture and nature. The second name is America, in honor of the discoverer Amerigo Vespucci.
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