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What was Amerigo Vespucci the first to believe about the lands claimed for Spain by columbus

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that the lands were not a part of Asia, but rather continents that had been previously unknown to Europe

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Unlike other before him such as Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci discovered that the land mass that was found was not a part of Asia, but an entirely new continent separated from Asia.
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