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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Amerigo Vespucci, a map-maker, arrived seven years after Columbus, but he was a better promoter. He realised, as Columbus never did, that a 'new world' had been found; and his accounts of his voyages sizzled with descriptions of wild sex and cannibalism among the natives.
Vespucci's travel reports reached Alsace-Lorraine, where a new edition of Ptolemy's atlas of the world was being prepared in 1507. New illustrative plates were made, and when printed, the New World (Mundus Novus) mainland bore the name America.
It sold well and other map-makers picked up the name.
Columbus did one capital honour, though: the District of Columbia, as in Washington DC.
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