An Italian navigator named Amerigo Vespucci explored the coast of South America a few years after Columbus and wrote a colorful account of his voyages. In 1507 a group of French mapmakes decided to put the name "America" on the map they designed that showed for the first time that the New World is a landmass separate from Europe and Asia.
Columbus and the explorers who came after him found many things in Americas that were new to them. They had never tasted chocolate. They had never eaten pintables, potatos, tomatoes or corn. They had never seen people smoke tobacco. And they had never slept in hammocks.But they soon discovered that hammocks made great beds for sailors on ships.
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