Who Named America?

Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/YfZU30acnLs AMERICA! F**K YEAH! SOURCES & FURTHER READING About Abya Yala: http://abyayala.nativeweb.org/about.htmlamerigo ve Why The World Is On The Back Of A Turtle: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2800081?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents Amerigo Vespucci: http://www.biography.com/people/amerigo-vespucci-9517978 Top 5 Misconceptions About Columbus: http://www.livescience.com/16468-christopher-columbus-myths-flat-earth-discovered-americas.html Waldseemüller’s Fulll Map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Waldseemuller_map_2.jpg Where Does North America Begin?: https://tcmam.wordpress.com/2011/07/22/where-does-north-america-begin/ Virigna Gazette 04/06/1776: https://web.archive.org/web/20141219053616/http://research.history.org/DigitalLibrary/VirginiaGazette/VGIssueThumbs.cfm?IssueIDNo=76.DH.16 PHOTO SOURCES Statue of Liberty: Tysto Eagle: Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren Bruce Springsteen: Craig O’Neal Totem: Ken Walker Kuna People: Yves Picq Martin Waldseemüller: Gaston Save Waldseemüller Map: Martin Waldseemüller Newspapers: Brano Hudak John Dickenson: Charles Wilson Peale Thomas Jefferson: Rembrandt Peale "Birch Run", "Guts and Bourbon", "Suonatore di Liuto" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ The Great Courses Plus is currently available to watch through a web browser to almost anyone in the world and optimized for the US market. The Great Courses Plus is currently working to both optimize the product globally and accept credit card payments globally.