The correct answer is: D) Amerigo Vespucci
Explanation:
<em>Amerigo Vespucci </em>was born in<em> 1454 in Florence, Italy</em>. He belonged to a prominent family and they were friends with the <em>Medicis</em> (the ones who ruled Italy for over 300 years), Vespucci went to work for them and then moved to <em>Spain</em>.
He took part in the <em>early voyages to the New World. </em>Amerigo Vespucci made his first expedition <u><em>serving Spain</em></u> around 1499-1500, when he returned to Spain he wanted to make another expedition and when the Spanish government didn't agreed he went to the<em> </em><u><em>service of Portuga</em></u><em>l</em>, and then made his second expedition.
Even though Christopher Columbus had already discovered the New World, he thought it was part of Asia's continent, <u><em>Amerigo Vespucci</em></u><u> was the first man to realize t</u><u><em>he New World was another continent. </em></u>
<em>In 1507 </em>Martin Waldseemüler (a German cartographer) named the New World America, the feminine version of the name Amerigo.