Essay About Ferdinand Magellan

Magellan was given credit for being the first to travelling around the world. He had begun his voyage on September 20th, 1519. Magellan was fascinated and determined by the idea of finding the Spice Island. Magellan had done many minor explorations before. The exploration of Columbus gave him the idea of a successful expedition to The Caribbean. Magellan had asked the Portuguese king to support his expedition but the king had denied his offer. So he went to Spanish Royalty to ask for help which was granted. The Spanish King agreed to give an armada of five ships. Magellan should have been defended because he is determined, he has good navigation skills and he was religious.

Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen-hundred-ninty-two. He came over from Spain in three ships, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria and discovered America, or at least that was what I was taught in elementary school. Since then there has been much controversy going on over the issue of weather or not Christopher Columbus really “discovered” America because when he landed in San Salvador he was not alone. Native Americans already inhabited the land and they had been there long before Columbus, but this doesn’t mean that he should be atacked stripped of his dignity.

1519: a Spanish armada of five ships set sail that would soon be the first to circumnavigate the globe. Their captain, a Portuguese noble, was an accomplished student of cartography and astronomy. Europe’s cravings for spices sent Columbus to Asia, and into the barrier that was the Americas. Magellan’s expedition sought to find a way through, on a mission to bring a new trade route and immense wealth to Spain. Through the crew’s starvation, two mutinies against him, and his harsh personality and lack of accomplishment, Magellan proved his life was not worth saving.

Lastly the third reason why Magellan led himself to his deathbed. Magellan’s navigational skills were poor. According to Over the Edge of the World, By Harper Collins “he regularly sent small scouting parties in the long boats”, “they would go and come back with news of the findings.. And the rest would follow” Gines de Mafra recalled. This evidence shows that Magellan had planned the way easily, but doing it was difficult. Magellan purely relied on his search parties to go throughout the way. You might argue that he still got through and reached the spice islands, but he reached there with just a handful of men in his Armada.

On Aug. 3, 1492, Columbus sailed from Palos, Spain, with three small ships, the Santa María, commanded by Columbus himself, the Pinta under Martín Pinzon, and the Nina under Vicente Yanez Pinzon. After stopping at the Canary Islands, he sailed due west from Sept. 6 until Oct. 7, when he changed his course to the southwest. On Oct. 10 a small rebellion was quelled, and on Oct. 12 he landed on a small island in the Bahamas. He took possessions for Spain and brought natives aboard, discovered other

A believed reason on why Queen Isabella and Ferdinand once and for all decided to fund Columbus’ voyage would be because the Spanish rulers wanted the virtue of fame and money. According to History.com,, “During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of several European nations sponsored expeditions abroad

Christopher Columbus was finally able to fulfill his dream of sailing when he received the opportunity to travel to India by the King and Queen of Spain. The Royal family wanted Columbus to better understand the society of the people in India to be able

Columbus made an especially daring trip when he set sail for the Indies. He knew he was headed for some rough water, bad weather, and maybe even an unwelcoming crowd of people.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus made one of the most well known voyages from Spain to the

-The early Spanish voyages were not meticulously planed out and organized asthe Portuguese were. The Spanish explorers got as far as they did mostly due toblind luck. During the 1400s, a man named Christopher Columbus gotauthorization from Spain to sail across the Atlantic to what was believed to be theIndian Ocean. Instead in 1492, he sailed to the American continent, discoveringthe New World for the first time. He however, believed that he had found Indiaand insisted on calling the local inhabitants Indians.

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in the year 1451. His parents were Domenico Colombo and Susanna Fontanarossa. His father was third generation weaver who educated Columbus on how to skillfully

Although little is known about Christopher Columbus historian have inferred and determined some evidence about his life. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy. He was born in 1451. Columbus grew up with 4 siblings and they were all older than him. His father was a wool weaver.

Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in fourteen fifty one. His father was a merchant that traded wine and other things, and there is where Christopher Columbus worked. They were considered to be the lower middle class back in this time. This town was almost surrounded entirely by sea, and there were a lot of sailors. Christopher Columbus grew tired of working on land and became fascinated by the ocean and sailing, so when he became a teenager he got a job working on a merchant ship. Were he stayed out at sea until fourteen seventy, when pirates attacked the ship he was working on. Christopher Columbus managed to escape on an ore, and floated for days until he reached the Portuguese coast. Portugal was the leader of ocean navigation during this time and this was a perfect place for Columbus. In this biography I plan on talking about how Christopher Columbus planned on seeking a royal sponsorship on his outrageous plan to discover a new route to China, but instead he stumbles upon a new world.

Ferdinand Magellan's journey began after his parents death when he was a little boy. After his parents death he became the queen's page. Magellan went to school where he learned about Christopher Columbus and his journeys to the Americas. Therefore after he finished school he was inspired by Columbus and he wanted to become an adventurer.

First, Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal on February 3, 1480. When he was 12, Magellan and his brother went to Lisbon. There they would serve as pages at Queen Leonora’s court. As a result, Magellan became more interested in exploration and maritime discovery because he was exposed to many stories about sea exploration. He also learned about the Spanish and Portuguese rivalry for dominance over the spice trade in the East Indies.