How America Got Its Name - Another insightful video clip from the Drive Thru History series and my buddies at http://www.ColdWaterMedia.com While great works of art and science were being produced in Florence, Italy, its most famous explorer and mapmaker, Amerigo Vespucci, was commissioned by the king and queen of Spain to further investigate the new lands discovered by Christopher Columbus. Between 1499 and 1502, Vespucci discovered the land mass we now call South America. He was convinc