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How Did Ferdinand Magellan Travel To The Great South American

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A Portuguese explorers, Ferdinand Magellan, found that earth is not flat! Magellan set out to find a western trade route in the Indies. Magellan wanted Spain to become as wealthy as Portugal. After a long expedition through a storm at a strait at the tip of South American. Two out of five ships have gone down, Magellan and the remaining ships continued onto the Great South Sea. He renamed it the Pacific Ocean from the Spanish word pasifico meaning peaceful. Conditions were terrible, the water was spoiled and the biscuits were infested with worms. The crew was forced to eat rats, sawdust fro ship boards and leather that was soaked in the sea and grilled on wood coals. Three months later the conditions were no better. It was

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