Where did John Cabot explore?
Little is known about Cabot’s early years. He was born around 1450, most likely in Genoa[2][1]. At the age of 11 he moved to Venice and became a Venetian citizen. He married one Mattea, who gave him three sons (who followed him in his enterprises.) Like other Genovese explorers of the era, such as Christopher Columbus (Cristoforo Colombo), Cabot made another country his base of operations. He moved first to Spain, where he collaborated to the works of the new port of Valencia. It was probably on hearing of Columbus’s discovery of ‘the Indies’ that he decided to find a route to the west for himself. He incorrectly thought spices were coming from northern Asia; and a degree of longitude is shorter the further one is from the equator, so the voyage from western Europe to eastern Asia would be shorter at higher latitudes. He proposed his plans first to Ferdinand II of Aragon, but when the Spanish court refused to support his voyage, Cabot moved to England. King Henry VII of England gave hi
