How did the New World continents come to be known as the Americas?
1. The name was given by John Cabot due to his writings
2.The name was given to it by Christopher Columbus in his journals
3.The name was given to them by a map maker, 4.Waldseemueller, based on
Amerigo Vespucci's writings about it.
5.Cortez and Balboa named it after their conquests