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JOHN CABOT Of all the new world explorers, John Cabot could be the most famous, and certainly the most influential. John Cabot was an Italian navigator exploring for England. He is known for his fantastic voyages to the eastern shores of North America. Cabot opened up the door for the “Northwest Passage,” a northern route to Asia. John Cabot was born in 1450 in Genoa, Spain. In 1473, he moved to Venice, Italy. While he was in Valencia in 1493, he decided to be a merchant. He believed that he could get to Asia by a Northern route. In 1495, he went to England to convince King Henry VII to allow him to explore for this “Northwest Passage.” On March 5