Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from 1519 to 1522. As a young man, he served in the Portuguese navy and participated in campaigns in East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In 1519, Magellan led an expedition for the Spanish crown that sailed westward across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America, and then northward across the Pacific Ocean. Although Magellan was killed in the Philippines, one of his ships eventually completed the first recorded circumnavigation of Earth, proving that it was possible to sail around the globe. Magellan's voyage expanded European knowledge of the globe and opened the way
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from 1519 to 1522. As a young man, he served in the Portuguese navy and participated in campaigns in East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In 1519, Magellan led an expedition for the Spanish crown that sailed westward across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America, and then northward across the Pacific Ocean. Although Magellan was killed in the Philippines, one of his ships eventually completed the first recorded circumnavigation of Earth, proving that it was possible to sail around the globe. Magellan's voyage expanded European knowledge of the globe and opened the way
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from 1519 to 1522. As a young man, he served in the Portuguese navy and participated in campaigns in East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In 1519, Magellan led an expedition for the Spanish crown that sailed westward across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America, and then northward across the Pacific Ocean. Although Magellan was killed in the Philippines, one of his ships eventually completed the first recorded circumnavigation of Earth, proving that it was possible to sail around the globe. Magellan's voyage expanded European knowledge of the globe and opened the way
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe from 1519 to 1522. As a young man, he served in the Portuguese navy and participated in campaigns in East Africa, India, and Southeast Asia. In 1519, Magellan led an expedition for the Spanish crown that sailed westward across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America, and then northward across the Pacific Ocean. Although Magellan was killed in the Philippines, one of his ships eventually completed the first recorded circumnavigation of Earth, proving that it was possible to sail around the globe. Magellan's voyage expanded European knowledge of the globe and opened the way
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Ferdinand Magellan English Homework -Research
life
Ferdinand Magellan was born in
Oporto, Portugal, in 1480. His parents were members of the Portuguese nobility, and the young Magellan found himself in the service of royalty at an early age. He was only twelve when he began serving the queen of Portugal as a page, a position of employment for youths in royal courts. As a young member of Queen Leonora's School of Pages in Lisbon (the Portuguese capital) Magellan was encouraged to learn subjects that would aid him greatly later, such as cartography (mapmaking), astronomy, and celestial navigation (learning how to steer a ship based on the positions of the stars). Magellan joined the Portuguese service to sail with the fleet in 1505. He went to East Africa and later was at the battle of Diu, in which the Portuguese destroyed the Egyptian fleet's dominance in the Arabian Sea. He went twice to Malacca, located in present-day Malaysia, and participated in that port's conquest (the act of conquering) by the Portuguese. It is possible that he also went on a mission to explore the Moluccas (islands in Indonesia, then called the Spice Islands). Trading in spices brought great wealth to European nations at this time, and there was much competition among them to claim territories that were rich in spices, especially in Southeast Asia, called the East Indies. The Moluccas were the original source of some of the world's most valuable spices at that time, including cloves and nutmeg.
-Exploration Magellan's expedition of 15191522 became the first expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean (then named "peaceful sea" by Magellan; the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan), and the first to cross the Pacific. His expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth. Magellan did not complete the entire voyage, as he was killed during the Battle of Mactan in the Philippines. (For background see Exploration of the Pacific.) -Routes
The route Magellan took was pretty straightforward. He went
along the coast of Europe down to around Africa then cut across the Atlantic. Next he went around the tip South America. When he reached the Pacific he named it Pacific which means peaceful. He went up and across until he reached the Spice Islands(he died), but his crew kept sailing on. They had two ships left and took one towards Africa and up around until they reached Spain. The other ship was going to try to get back by retracing the route they had done to get there, and if that didn't
work they would try to start a settlement by Panama. The crew
that went back to America had to turn around and go back to the Spice Islands when half of the crew died. Magellan and his crew went to many islands, and reloaded on one of them. The island they reloaded on was Ladrone Island. They reloaded there since Magellan had predicted the voyage to be much shorter, and they needed some more food before heading to the Phillipenes. Magellan's crew made a good choice to keep going because they made world history.
-Discovery Magellan made many little discoveries but also one big one; you can sail around the world. Magellan also discovered a
strait. The strait is now called the strait of Magellan. Magellan
didn't discover that you could sail around the world, but he had the idea, and his crew proved it. That also gave proof that the world is round. He didn't discover the Pacific Ocean, but he was the one who named it. He also discovered a western sea passage to the Moluccas(Spice rich islands). Magellan and his crew made discoveries that changed the world. -Contribution
to expansion of one explorer
Magellan's successful expedition during the Age of Discovery
opened up of the whole globe to European exploration and colonization. During the centuries that followed, European colonizers would remold the world, spreading Christianity while often abusing indigenous peoples and exploiting colonial populations. Yet Magellan's discovery helped establish the notion that all the peoples of the earth share one globe and a common humanity. Following Magellan's voyage later navigators would explore the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean, the Arctic and Antarctic regions, as well as search the Atlantic seaboard for the elusive Northwest Passage that would enable maritime trade to the Indies without the arduous detour through the Straits of Magellan. As a result of the Age of Discovery European maritime powers, notably Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, and the Netherlands would come to colonize newly discovered lands around the globe. Driven largely by the promise of wealth, colonial powers were often ruthless in relations with indigenous peoples, yet also spread Christianity, humanitarian values, and Western traditions of law and government throughout the world. Magellan's voyage inaugurated a new understanding of the world as the finite domicile of humanity and led to greater recognition of the world's peoples as a global human family.
