JOHN CABOT

1.I find these pictures from http://people.bu.edu/wwildman/ben/mass/1498.htm and http://www.reformation.org/cabotia.html i searh the picture on google image.

2. 1.he was born in Genoa in 1450.

2.Cabot thought there was a better route to the riches of the Orient by heading west instead of east

3.John Cabot's son, Sebastian, was an accomplished mapmaker and navigator.

4.He moved to Venice in 1461.

5.On a second voyage Cabot again used only one ship with 18 crew.

5.Once Henry the Navigator began searching for a route around Africa, Italy began losing its place at the center of the merchant seafaring world.

6. the first time King Henry VII of England only gave him a small ship

7.Cabot went to Bristol to make the preparations for his voyage.

8.He landed on the coast of Newfoundland on June 24, 1497

9.On a second voyage Cabot again used only one ship with 18 crew.

10.Cabot was made an Admiral, rewarded with £10 and a patent was written for a new voyage

3.He is important to the canadian history because John Cabot explored North America for England in 1497 he sailed to what is now eastern Canada. There is some controversy as to where he landed. He disappeared at sea in 1498.

4 Because they (england ) would not finance his exploring voyages. So he went to the dutch and they did and hence New Amsterdam was originally Dutch.

5.what happened to him was he landed the iseland of Newfoundland.

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