Ferdinand Magellan led a fleet of five ships on an expedition to explore a western route to the Spice Islands in 1519. The expedition faced many hardships including mutiny, storms that destroyed one ship, lack of food, and disease that killed most of the crew. Only 18 crew members survived to return on the single remaining ship, though Magellan did not survive as he was killed in the Philippines in 1521. The expedition proved that the world was round and was the first to circumnavigate it, starting a debate on territorial claims in Southeast Asia.
This work shows the life of the most famous Portuguese navigator in the world: Ferdinand Magellan.
Also, It tells the First Circumnavigation of the Earth and his death at the hands of the Indians.
This work shows the life of the most famous Portuguese navigator in the world: Ferdinand Magellan.
Also, It tells the First Circumnavigation of the Earth and his death at the hands of the Indians.
The Philippines could not avoid being a colony because the European power were building their empire by grabbing colonies in other continent. we fell to the spaniards who brought christianity to us.
Know more about the expeditions in the Philippines. Find out this presentation. After their conquest of Mexico, they decided to continue their settlement of the Philippines through the expeditions of Garcia Jofre Loaisa (1525), Sebastian Cabot (1526), Alvaro de Saavedra (1527), Rudy Lopez de Villalobos (1542) and Miguel Lopez de Legazpi (1564).
The Explorers. Circumnavigating the World with Magellan, Elcano & Pigafetta. ...Fergus Ducharme
This is the very intriguing and interesting story of Magellan's "Circumnavigation" of the World in 1520, 1521 and 1522 with his two followers, Elcano and Pigafetta. It's a story of discovery, mutiny, privation, war and more.
A presentation by the Centrist Democracy Political Institute on the current state of Philippine politics particularly on the political party system, party-list system, and on the negative effects of the proliferating political dynasties.
The Philippines could not avoid being a colony because the European power were building their empire by grabbing colonies in other continent. we fell to the spaniards who brought christianity to us.
Know more about the expeditions in the Philippines. Find out this presentation. After their conquest of Mexico, they decided to continue their settlement of the Philippines through the expeditions of Garcia Jofre Loaisa (1525), Sebastian Cabot (1526), Alvaro de Saavedra (1527), Rudy Lopez de Villalobos (1542) and Miguel Lopez de Legazpi (1564).
The Explorers. Circumnavigating the World with Magellan, Elcano & Pigafetta. ...Fergus Ducharme
This is the very intriguing and interesting story of Magellan's "Circumnavigation" of the World in 1520, 1521 and 1522 with his two followers, Elcano and Pigafetta. It's a story of discovery, mutiny, privation, war and more.
A presentation by the Centrist Democracy Political Institute on the current state of Philippine politics particularly on the political party system, party-list system, and on the negative effects of the proliferating political dynasties.
Slide deck with thoughts on Corruption in the Philippines. Slides are from an undergraduate course on Philippine Politics and Governance I taught between 2003-2005.
This presentation aims to keep the student abreast with the current issues on Ethical Behavior concerning public servants, as a result, they will appreciate laws and implemented techniques by the government in reducing and or eliminating corrupt practices.
By providing students with relevant topics on issues on Ethical behavior particularly graft & corruption practices in government, I am expecting that they will be more willing to enjoin government in providing quality services to the people whom they served.
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Five hundred years ago, Ferdinand Magellan began a historic journey to circumnavigate the globe. Simple, right? Not really— the explorer and his voyage are a study in contradiction. Magellan was Portuguese, but sailed on behalf of Spain. He was a formidable captain, but his crew hated him. His expedition was the first to sail around the world, but he didn’t end up circling the globe himself. His name wasn’t even Magellan.
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Like Columbus before him, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan proposed reaching Asia and the Moluccas, or Spice Islands, by sailing west from Europe.
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Nonetheless, it’s clear that Ferdinand Magellan’s 1519 expedition changed the world forever. His journey was “the greatest sea voyage ever undertaken, and the most significant,” says historian Laurence Bergreen, author of Over the Edge of the World: Magellan’s Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe. “That’s not hyperbole.”
Brutal, bellicose, and brave, Magellan turned a commercial voyage into a hair-raising showdown with a wide world few Europeans could imagine. At the beginning of his journey, his contemporaries suspected it was impossible to sail around the entire globe—and feared that everything from sea monsters to killer fogs awaited anyone foolhardy enough to try. “It sounded suicidal to do this,” says Bergreen.
The Portuguese nobleman was born Fernão de Magalhães around 1480. As a page to queen consort Eleanor and Manuel I, he experienced court life in Lisbon. But the young man had a sense of adventure, and took part in a string of Portuguese voyages designed to discover and seize lucrative spice routes in Africa and India.
At the time, Portugal and Spain were involved in an intense rivalry to see who could find and claim new territory where they could source the spices coveted by European aristocrats. In 1505, Magellan joined the fight, traveling to India, Malaysia, and Indonesia. But his days in service to Portugal were numbered: He was accused of illegal trading and fell out with Manuel I, who turned down his proposal to locate a new spice route. Magellan was convinced that by sailing west instead of east and going through a rumored strait through South America, he could map a new route to Indonesia and India. So he abandoned his Portuguese loyalty and headed to Spain, where he gained both citizenship and Charles V’s blessing for a five-ship journey westward.
The captain stood to gain great wealth and status from the trip: Charles gave him a decade-long monopoly on any route he might discover, a cut of the profits, and a noble title to boot. But he was in an awkward position when it came to his majority-Spanish crew and his royal mission. “The Castilians resented sailing under a Portuguese commander and the Portuguese considered him a traitor,” writes historian Lincoln Paine.
On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from Patagonia to Indonesia, from the Philippines to the Cape of Good Hope, Pigafetta's The First Voyage around the World is a classic of discovery and exploration literature.
This volume is based on the critical edition by Antonio Canova. It includes an extensive introduction to the work and generous annotations by Theodore J. Cachey Jr who discusses the marvelous elements of the story through allusions to Magellan's travels made by writers as diverse as Shakespeare and Gabriel García Márquez. However, Cachey is careful to point out that Pigafetta's book is far from just a marvel-filled travel narrative. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and handsomely illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure to enlighten new readers and invigorate the imagination as the story has done since it first appeared.
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