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When you hear the word "American," where do think a person described with this word is from? Of course, you will say from America. But what is America for you? Maybe the United States, and so an American is a citizen of this country. Have y ....

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... was known by the earliest explorers and historians as the Indies, the West Indies, or the New World. In 1499, Alonso de Ojeda and Juan de la Cosa visited South America, and with them went Amerigo Vespucci who wrote such popular accounts of his own deeds that the German geographer Martin Waldseemuller coined the word "America" in Cosmographiae Introductio, a small work designed to accompany and explain a wall map and globe executed by Waldseemuller. In this work two names were suggested for the "fourth part" of the world, one Amerige (pronounced A-mer-i-gay with the -ge from the Greek, meaning "earth"), and the other America (in the femini ...