He finally reached the American mainland in 1498. In 1498–15–04, Columbus made two further voyages to America, which he still believed to be part of the East Indies.
However, the Italians, especially the Genoese merchants of Seville, dominated Spain's American trade during the 16th century, importing gold and tropical products into Europe and exporting manufactured goods as well as slaves under contracts, or Asientos, to America. The Fuggers leased mines in Hispaniola and Mexico, while the Welsers leased Venezuela for twenty years. The succession of the Hapsburgs to the Spanish throne in the early 16th century promptly occasioned investments by South German banking houses in Spanish mines and then in American mines. As a result, the mapmakers irrevocably attached Amerigo's name to the newly discovered continents. Vespucci wrote accounts of his voyages they were immediately printed and received wide circulation. In succeeding years, Vespucci sailed in Spanish expeditions, and then from 1501 on sailed in Portuguese voyages to explore Cabral's discovery, Brazil.
In 1495, on the death of Gianneto Berardi, who had contracted to fit out twelve ships, Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine who was manager of the Medici bank at Seville, assumed the contract.
0 kommentar(er)
