* Vespucci switched from the service of Spain to that of Portugal because the area to which the voyage of 1500 - 1502 was going was of greater interest to Portugal. All of the Voyages that Columbus made to the New World were for Spain. However, he had lived in Portuguese lands from 1474 to 1485. While there he married a Portugese woman and sailed aboard Portuguese ships, though he did not command one.

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