John Cabot and his crew knew they had not found the Northwest Passage. However, they did believe that they had found part of Asia.
Answeryes it is true that they thought that they discovered the northwest passage.... you didn't really answer my question because that wasn't the question i asked.
Because the early explorers needed it to find their way through the northwest passage it played an important role in there time, it also save time, money and supplies for the sailors.
At the time, many sailors and navigators believed that there was a water route called the Northwest Passage that ran from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean along the border of the modern U.S. and Canada. He took that route.
"With the sailors!" in English is Cum nautis! in Latin.
he was looking for a shorter route to Asia so people can get spices faster and most sailors at that time was looking for th Northwest Passage so he might've been looking for it on the sidenote
Until the North West passage was discovered, ships assumed the only way to travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean - was round the tip of Argentina. Discovering the North West passage drastically cut the voyage time for explorers.
sailors - slaves would take over ship and kill all sailors! slavers - dying
No. It was many years after Cartier landed on the shores of what is now Canada that the Northwest Passage was found. Many sailors attempted to find a passage through the arctic. Men like John Cabot, Francis Drake, James Cook, James Franklin and Martin Frobisher were among them and all failed until 1906 when Roland Amundsen spent three years successfully navigating the passage and later in 1944 it was done in one single seasons voyage by RCMP officer Henry Larsen.
he was looking for a shorter route to Asia so people can get spices faster and most sailors at that time was looking for th Northwest Passage so he might've been looking for it on the sidenote
Penguins were first discovered in the 15th century. They were discovered by sailors sailing into the southern waters near New Zealand.
India was discovered in 1857-1858. It was discovered when Indian told the Portuguese sailors welcome to India.
English and dutch sailors