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and trade policies that confronted the world’s two most powerful countries throughout those years

and an editorial by Pollan Strober

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Amerigo Vespucci: Explorer of South America and the West Indies (Spotlight on Explorers and Colonization) Graham Hancock 1387189719Amerigo Vespucci, the presumed namesake of the continents of North America and South America, is a controversial figure in the history of European exploration. The number of voyages he took to the New World is in dispute, but among his accomplishments, he found a rough method of calculating longitude, made notes on the indigenous peoples he encountered, and published theories proving that Columbus had not landed in India. This volume separates the