re about what the earth looked like. He spent half of his life as a businessman hoping to be rich.
             He was living in Italy. Italy was not yet a civilized country at that time Italy was a community of city-states, each self governed and looking for money for it's own purposes, not for the benefit of the country. Florence, where Amerigo was born and grew up was in the city-state governed by the powerful Medici family. Later, Vespucci's life, he ends up his working for this family helping governing the state.
             In 1492, Vespucci left Florence for Seville, Spain, because Italy was powerful and did
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