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i reached Brazil under aid of the Portuguese government. ? first person to demonstrate that the New World discovered by Christopher Columbus in 1492 was not the eastern appendage of Asia, but rather a previouslyunknown fourth continent ? In 1507 Martin Waldseem252。ller, a German cartographer, produced a world map on which he named the new continent America after Vespucci39。s first name, Amerigo. Amerigo Vespucci and Martin Waldseem252。ller ? 1519 to 1522 the Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan sailed round the world for the first time. ? Ferdinand Magellan himself was killed by the aboriginals on April 27, 1521 during the voyage in Philippines. Ⅳ .Who first discovered “ New World” ? ? In 1000 the Icelandic Viking called Leif Ericson reached New Found Land. ? In the sixth century an Irish monastic saint called Saint Brendan sailed across the Atlantic sea, searching for the Garden of Eden, and landed the Isle of Blessed. Saint Brendan and the sea monster ? According to a Chinese book called “ Book of Liang” , as early as the 5th century a Chinese Buddhist monk called Hui Shen visited the California coast. ? It recorded that he started from the city of Jian Kang, went through Korea, Japan and Alaska, and finally reached Fusang. ? He stayed in Fusang for forty years and came back to Jian Kang with some Fusang stones. ? Guatemala in honor of Gautama Buddha. 《梁書(shū)》 “扶桑國(guó)者,齊永元元年(按:公元499年),其國(guó)有沙門(mén)慧深來(lái)至荊州,說(shuō)云:‘ 扶桑在大漢國(guó)東二萬(wàn)余里,地在中國(guó)之東。其土多扶桑木,故以為名。扶桑葉似桐,出生如筍,國(guó)人食之。實(shí)如梨而赤,績(jī)其皮為衣,亦以為錦。作板屋,無(wú)城郭。有文字,以扶桑皮為紙。無(wú)兵甲,不攻戰(zhàn)。’” ? “ Fusang is about twenty thousand Chinese miles … east of the Middle Kingdoms [China]. Many fusang trees grow there, whose leaves resemble the phoenix tree。 the sprouts, …, resemble those of the bamboo tree, and are eaten by the inhabitants of the land. The fruit is like a pear in form but is red. From the bark they prepare a sort of linen which they use for clothing... The houses are built of wooden beams。 fortified and walled places there unknown... They have written characters in this land and prepare paper from the bark of the Fusang.” 演講完畢,謝謝觀(guān)看!