This Country of Ours. Ch 4: How America was Named

From Micah (year 2):
Before Columbus died, he wrote a letter to Portugal. The guy whose name was like America and Columbus were friends. Some people said that Amerigo traveled four or six times across from Spain to the Islands. He also rode a horse (Columbus). Amerigo found America.

Second listening (in chunks):
When Columbus came back, then he told everybody that he proved that the monsters weren't real. And all the scary and creep stories were false. Everybody wanted to go across the sea To see if they could reach India. But it wasn't really India.

Amerigo decided to have a sea life because he was tired of trading. He had been in Spain for four years all trading. He knew Columbus. It was very likely that he saw Columbus riding through the streets on his day of triumph.

Amerigo probably took about six voyages. The first were from Spain, then they were from Portugal, then in the end he went back to Spain. They weren't his voyages, they were led by other people. He was one of the sailors on them.

He wrote a book to an old school friend and it was so interesting that it was published and read by many people. His voyages were mostly to South America, and was convinced that South America was a continent.

A professor wrote a book about the three parts of the world: Asia, Africa and Europe, and a new part of the world, which he called America. At first the name "America" was only for the south part. Columbus was associated only with the North part.

Later a map maker named both continents "America". The people in Spain wanted the North part named after Columbus. Some people even wanted to name it after Isabella.

Amerigo didn't name America, the people did. He and Columbus were friends.

Columbus has his name on parts of many places on the continent.