🫢​ Columbus Didn't Discover America? The REAL Story!  Although the continent's discovery is regularly attributed to Columbus it should strike people who make this claim as strange that it's not known as Colombia but as America however he has been credited with the discovery of North America specifically the USA owing to the highly romanticized biography of Columbus by the American author Washington Irving Columbus never set foot on North America and never claimed to have The understanding that he did all comes from Irving and is a complete myth. The continent is named after Amerigo Vespucci who lived between 1454 and 1512 a Florentine explorer who had detailed 3 voyages between 1497 and 1504 to the New World On world maps beginning in 1506 he was credited with the discovery of the Americas and that's why the continents bear the feminine version of his name. #america #columbusday #history #worldhistory