Which statement is true? (A) Amerigo Vespucci discovered America. (B) Amerigo Vespucci discovered and explored the new land. (C) Christopher Columbus discovered but did not explore the new land. (D) Christopher Columbus found America and settled in the New World.

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(C) Christopher Columbus discovered but did not explore the new land. 

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