Amerigo Vespucci Interactive Biography
By Micah's Learning Resources
He explored the coast of a new continent and wrote the letters that gave America its name, but he was not the first to reach it, and some of what he claimed may be a story someone else told. This interactive biography gives students the full Amerigo Vespucci: a Florentine banker turned navigator who may have made two voyages and almost certainly wrote the widely published letters that convinced Europe the lands across the Atlantic were not the edge of Asia but an entirely new world. What's Included: - Five life eras with public domain paintings and engravings, from the Florentine banking world through the voyages along the coast of South America, the letters that made him famous, and the naming of the continent by a German mapmaker who believed his account - A dual-track timeline that sets Vespucci's own life against the world he moved through: the Medici bank, the Portuguese exploration of Brazil, the rivalry with Columbus, and the printing presses that spread his letters across Europe - Four journeys drawn on a real world map with direction arrows and place markers. The two documented voyages are shown as solid lines; the two claimed only in the disputed letters are shown as dashed lines, so students can see the source criticism built onto the map itself - A twenty-node connections web of the people, ships and events around him: Lorenzo de Medici, King Manuel I of Portugal, Martin Waldseemuller, Christopher Columbus, and the unknown writer who may have fabricated parts of t
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