Informative Essay On John Cabot

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BOOM!! That is going to be the sound of your brain when I tell you why all explorers traveled. Most past explorers traveled for money, knowledge, and land possession. Most modern explorers traveled to do what most people thought was impossible. They traveled for these reasons because, past explorers did not know much about the world or if there was anything else. Also since technology is so advanced, when modern explorers found or did something that wasn't done yet most people thought what they did was not even possible. John Cabot was know for finding current day Canada. If he would have never found Canada it would have been centuries before someone else did.

John Cabot was born in Giovanni Caboto, Italy around 1450. In 1495 he moved to Bristol England with his
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When he was a young man he was an aerial stuntman and learned to fly in Nebraska. In 1927 he became the first person to cross the Atlantic ocean solo. He flew from New York to Bourget Aerodrome Paris. He named his plane the spirit of ST. Louis. The flight took him 33 hours, 30 minutes and 29.8 seconds. When Charles Lindbergh left he said ”Life is like a landscape you live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance”. Although he died in August 1974 in Kipahulu, Hawaii at least he was able to describe the landscape.
My explorers are different and similar in many ways. The difference between the two is that John Cabot traveled for fame, money, and knowledge and Charles Lindbergh traveled to have that achievement of doing something that no one thought was possible. They’re also similar in many ways such as where they explored and both of the men sailed across the Atlantic. Another way they different is that John Cabot sailed across the Atlantic ocean with hundred of people and boats while as Charles Lindbergh flew on plane by himself. These are some differences and similarities between my two

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