the impact of john cabot?

Question

John Cabot discovered Greenland but what was the impact of his discovery???

Answer 1

He didn't discovered Greenland. He discovered the NorthAmerican mainland - basically what is now the eastern canadian shores - 1 year before Columbus explored the central american atlantic coastline.

The impact of this discovery was making sure that the new world was in fact a new continent of a considerable size.

Answer 2

Giovanni Caboto or John Cabot didn't discover Greenland, or else we probably wouldn't call it Greenland. That was the name Leif Ericson gave the place centuries before Cabot sailed. He was, however, probably the first European to set foot on the North American Mainland (Colombus didn't do it until his third voyage, and was still insisting that he was in the "Indes") in 1497, notwithstanding Leif Ericson's landing (circa 1000). Cabot's journeys of exploration helped England lay claim to vast swathes of North America, and whetted the appetite of other English explorers to keep looking for the fabled Northwest Passage to the Pacific.