Part one of term paper
In 1497, an Italian sea captain, sailing under the English flag, reached the coast of North America. may have been the first European to set foot on this conttnent after the viking explorer, Leif Erickson, who had landed there 5 centuries before. Joh Cabot's became the basis for the English claim to America. John Cabot's Italian name ...

Part two of term paper
... buy spices and other goods from the east, was long and slow. Like Columbus, Cabot believed that the Earth was not flat, but a sphere, ans that Asia could be easily reached by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean. Cabot tried to get Spain and Portugal to back an ocean voyage to Cathay, China. But Spain had already sent Columbus, and Portugal had plans for a voyage to Asia around the southern tip of Africa. Joh Cabot then went to England where he recieved the financing from a group of merchan ...