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Who was the first to realize that the Americas were not Asia?

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Amerigo Vespucci
Amerigo Vespucci

Hernando Cortés
Hernando Cortés

Vasco Balboa
Vasco Balboa

Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
Amerigo Vespucci — he argued (and publicized in letters like "Mundus Novus") that the lands Columbus found were a "New World," not Asia.