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Who one of the following was not navigator?

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John Cabot
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John Kay
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Amerigo Vespucci
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Chistopher Columbus
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Solution

The correct option is C John Kay

  • Amerigo Vespucci was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts.
  • Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, a navigator who discovered America.
  • John Cabot was a Venetian navigator who discovered coast of North America.

Among the given options, John Kay was not a navigator. John Kay was the inventor of the flying shuttle, which was a key contribution to the Industrial Revolution.


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