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John Cabot was born around this time in
Castiglione Chiavarese, Republic of Genoa,ItalyIn 1471 Caboto was accepted into the religious
confraternity of St John the Evangelist.1476, Caboto would have been eligible to engage
in maritime trade, including the trade to the
eastern Mediterranean that was the source of
much of Venice's wealth. He presumably entered
this trade shortly thereafter.A 1483 document refers to his selling a slave in
Crete whom he had acquired while in the
territories of the Sultan of Egypt, which then
comprised most of what is now Israel, Syria and
Lebanon.by 1484 he was married to Mattea and already
had at least two sons.Cabot went to Bristol to arrange preparations for
his voyage. Bristol was the second-largest seaport
in England. From 1480 onward it had supplied
several expeditions to look for Hy-Brazil.
According to Celtic legend, this island lay
somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean.1497 discovery of the coast of North America
under the commission of Henry VII of England
was the first European exploration of the
mainland of North America since the Norse visits
to Vinland in the eleventh centurydisappeared May 1498Periods
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