Why did Amerigo Vespucci become an explorer?

To get to the other side?

He was too proud to stop and ask for directions.

And he hated his first name.

Typical man. “Honey, just pull over here and ask..” “Hell no, are you saying I’m not man enough to figure shit out for myself?”

It’s not so much of a WHY question, but more of a HOW question . . .
have your tried googling your homework?

You see sweetie, we all took oaths signed in our own blood. Well, it was somebody’s blood, I think. Anyway, we don’t actually do homework questions. We can help, but research is strictly forbidden. The fact that we were out of our minds on psychedelic drugs when we agreed to it avails us nothing. Twist and turn though we may, every time one of us tries to help someone with homework by telling answers, that person evaporates in a puff of smoke. Sorry. I wonder if the information is located somewhere in your textbook….

Because it was still possible then.

Because he thought Columbus was wrong.

@Darwin, well technically, Columbus was lost, so….

@Trillian – Columbus thought he had made it all the way to Asia. Vespucci didn’t agree. He thought Columbus was wrong and set out to prove it. Any more details would be doing the OP’s homework.

Because he wanted a couple continents named for him one day. Because of him I can proudly call myself a North Vespuccian.

One of the financiers of the 1497 voyage by John Cabot to the New World was a Welshman named Richard Amerike. It is more likely that America is named for him. Columbus’ four voyages placed him in the Caribbean and Central America. He never landed in North America proper.

@Darwin I should have used the ~. My humor apparently doesn’t translate to print. Sorry.