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Giovanni Caboto ( c 1450 – c. 1498) 2. , known in English as John Cabot , was an Italian navigator and explorer commonly credited as the first European to discover North America, in 1497, notwithstanding Norseman Leif Ericson 's landing (c. 1003).The Canadian and United Kingdom government's official position is that he landed on the island of Newfoundland.
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He looks like 40 years old or more, he has a lots of bear . but I think he is hansome.
Cabot's birthplace is a matter of much controversy with Gaeta or Castiglione Chiavarese having been proposed as birthplaces[3][4]). He moved to Venice in 1461, at the age of eleven, and became a Venetian citizen in 1476.[5]
Like other Italian explorers, including Christopher Columbus, he was commissioned by another country. Once Henry the Navigator began searching for a route around Africa, Italy began losing its place at the center of the merchant seafaring world. The Iberian peninsula (Portugal and Spain) became the place for Italian navigational talent, especially after Columbus's audacious discovery of "the Indies" (as all Asia was called at the time) by sailing west. After that voyage, countless explorers headed in that direction; Cabot was among the more successful. He had a simple plan, to start from a northerly latitude where the longitudes are much closer together, and where, as a result, the voyage would be much shorter.
Like other Italian explorers, including Christopher Columbus, he was commissioned by another country. Once Henry the Navigator began searching for a route around Africa, Italy began losing its place at the center of the merchant seafaring world. The Iberian peninsula (Portugal and Spain) became the place for Italian navigational talent, especially after Columbus's audacious discovery of "the Indies" (as all Asia was called at the time) by sailing west. After that voyage, countless explorers headed in that direction; Cabot was among the more successful. He had a simple plan, to start from a northerly latitude where the longitudes are much closer together, and where, as a result, the voyage would be much shorter.
He sever for Engilsh king. Canada is a munber of the biritish commonwealth of nations.so ,he is important to Canada too.
Cabot sought funding from England and so his explorations were made under the English flag.
King Henry VII of England gave him a letters patent to go on
... full and free authoritie, leave, and Power, to sayle to all Partes, Countreys, and Seas, of the East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners and ensignes, with five shippes, ... and as many mariners or men as they will have with them in the saide shippes, upon their owne proper costes and charges, to seeke out, discover, and finde, whatsoever Iles, Countreyes, Regions, or Provinces, of the Heathennes and Infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of the worlde soever they bee, whiche before this time have been unknowen to all Christians..[7]
(Like his contemporary, King Francis I of France, who would send Giovanni da Verrazzano to reconnoiter even more of the Atlantic coastline, Henry VIII was in part motivated by the perceived insolence of the division of the world into two halves by Pope Alexander VI in the Bull Inter Caetera following the success of Columbus's first voyage. One half of the globe was for Portugal and the other half for Spain.)
King Henry VII of England gave him a letters patent to go on
... full and free authoritie, leave, and Power, to sayle to all Partes, Countreys, and Seas, of the East, of the West, and of the North, under our banners and ensignes, with five shippes, ... and as many mariners or men as they will have with them in the saide shippes, upon their owne proper costes and charges, to seeke out, discover, and finde, whatsoever Iles, Countreyes, Regions, or Provinces, of the Heathennes and Infidelles, whatsoever they bee, and in what part of the worlde soever they bee, whiche before this time have been unknowen to all Christians..[7]
(Like his contemporary, King Francis I of France, who would send Giovanni da Verrazzano to reconnoiter even more of the Atlantic coastline, Henry VIII was in part motivated by the perceived insolence of the division of the world into two halves by Pope Alexander VI in the Bull Inter Caetera following the success of Columbus's first voyage. One half of the globe was for Portugal and the other half for Spain.)
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回复删除2/7 I marked the ideas I could read.
You need to use your own words to answer the questions.