John Cabot
John Cabot was an Italian explorer commissioned by England. He landed in North America in the late 1400s and claimed the land for England.
John Cabot, the Italian explorer, named the new land he found "Newfoundland."
12 October 1492 : Columbus reaches the New World After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia .......................... After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.
Though Columbus was probably not the first European explorer to reach the Americas, Never admitting that he had reached a continent previously unknown In either case, Columbus left Portugal for Castile in 1485.
John Cabot
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John Cabot was an Italian explorer commissioned by England. He landed in North America in the late 1400s and claimed the land for England.
John Cabot, the Italian explorer, named the new land he found "Newfoundland."
He was an explorer, who proved that the land Columbus had reached was a completely new continent not India. Because of this the new continent was named after him.
12 October 1492 : Columbus reaches the New World After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia .......................... After sailing across the Atlantic Ocean, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sights a Bahamian island, believing he has reached East Asia. His expedition went ashore the same day and claimed the land for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, who sponsored his attempt to find a western ocean route to China, India, and the fabled gold and spice islands of Asia.
America comes from the name Amerigo Vespucci, an Italian explorer who was one of the first the believe the Americas were not India, but a new land entirely.
John Cabot was an Italian explorer and navigator. He is credited with discovering parts of the North American continent.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) was an Italian explorer who, financed by the king and queen of Spain, set sail to find a new route to India. He left Europe early in September 1492 and when land was sighted one month later he believed he had found India and named the native people living there, Indians. Columbus had not reached India as he thought but had reached Central America. He claimed the land for Spain and from 1492 onwards Europeans began to settle in America. They called it the New World.
He didn't discover anything . He was a 17 year old with his father and uncle who were Venice merchants who wanted to set up trade with China. It took them 4 years to reach China.