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Essay on Fdsag
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Giovanni da Verrazano was a Florentine explorer and navigator.
Although he was Italian, he was employed by the kind of France to find a
passage to the Pacific Ocean. The exact date of his birth and death are
not known, but historians believe that he was born in 1480, and he died in
1527. In 1524, he started on a voyage and discovered Cape Fear. He is
believed to have been the first European to sight the New York Bay, but it
was not explored until Henry Hudson's voyage in 1609. Verrazono also
explored the North Carolina coast and he visited the Chesapeake region and
then northward to Nova Scotia. In fact, he explored much of the American
coast line. When Giovanni was 39, he explored more of the coast, sailing
his 100-ton ship Dauphine for the French. While on this mission, he
discovered a "beautiful" harbor in April and gave the name Angouleme to
the island that will later be called Manhattan. But Giovanni wasn't
flawless. While he was still on this journey, he mistook the large body
of water to the west of the Outer Banks of North Carolina for the Pacific
Ocean. A map by Sebastian Munster shows the false "Sea of Verrazano."
His voyages affected all men because he discovered some important
lands that are vital to us today, such as Manhattan. If he had not
discovered these expanses, maybe someone else who had different intentions
would have found them, and then our whole American history would be
different. He could have burned the l
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