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Question

Has anyone ever heard of John cabot? No this is not the question! The question is if you ever have heard or John cabot what is he remembered for? I mean today in class we were reading a book about him and guess what it had all this information but not one thing he is remembered for! So please if you know the answer help me I need to know! Why is he important and why is he in history?

Again the question was what is John Cabot remembered for?

Answer 1

He is famous.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=john+cabot

Answer 2

John Cabot of Bristol, sailed to Canada...

There were about 20 people on board. Cabot, was in fact a Genoese barber (surgeon), a Burgundian, two Bristol merchants, and Bristol sailors. Whether any of Cabot's sons were members of the crew cannot be verified.

The Matthew left Bristol sometime in May, 1497. Some scholars think it was early in the month, others towards the end. It is generally agreed that he would have sailed down the Bristol Channel, across to Ireland, and then north along the west coast of Ireland before turning out to sea.

But how far north did he go? Again, it is impossible to be certain. All one can say is that Cabot's point of departure was somewhere between 51 and 54 degrees north latitude, with most modern scholars favouring a northerly location.

The next point of debate is how far Cabot might have drifted to the south during his crossing. Some scholars have argued that ocean currents and magnetic variations affecting his compass could have pulled Cabot far off course. Others think that Cabot could have held approximately to his latitude. In any event, some 35 days after leaving Bristol he sighted land, probably on 24 June, at Newfoundland.

Henry VII's northern Columbus returned to Bristol on 6 August 1497. Cabot and everyone else thought that a new, shorter route to Asia had been found. No silks and spices, but these could not be far away - and it was known that Columbus himself had not yet found anything of great commercial value. So Cabot became a hero: "... he is called the Great Admiral and vast honour is paid to him", wrote Lorenzo Pasqualigo, a Venetian living in London, "and he goes dressed in silk, and these English run after him like mad ...."

Henry VII granted £10 "to hym that founde the new isle", and later a pension of £20 a year. In February 1498, Henry granted Cabot his second letters patent. He was authorized to take six ships, and go to the "londe and iles of late founde by the seid John".

In May 1498 Cabot set sail with a fleet of five vessels - a significant advance over the previous year.

This voyage is one of history's puzzles. We know the fleet sailed, that one ship returned damaged after a storm, and that John Cabot disappears from the historical record. Everything else is speculation.

It seems likely that some of the vessels retraced the 1497 route, explored the area in more detail, and returned to England with more geographical knowledge.

Cabot himself died. One tradition asserts that he was shipwrecked not far from Grates Cove, where he got ashore together with his son Sancio and some of the crew. There they died, either by starvation or at the hands of Beothuk Indians.

This voyage demonstrated that Cabot had not found an easy and profitable route to Asia. He had found codfish and trees, but not the great cities which could provide wealth and power. What he and Columbus had found, it was becoming clear, was a new continent which stood between Europe and Asia. This was a considerable disappointment to those who had backed Cabot's voyages.

Answer 3

John Cabot or Giovianni Caboto was a British sailor and was accredited as one of the first to reach the american mainland.

Answer 4

He was an explorer. If Christoper Columbus was amajor leage player, Cabot was a AAA league guy.

Answer 5

was rumored to have made the voyage from europe to america almsot 100 years before columbus ( cant remmeber the timeline) but he sialed to teh orkneys, shetlands, iceland, greenland canada route

Answer 6

john cabot
he was in my government or economics books at school
he sounds familiar