Maritime Exploration Challenges Of Ferdinand Magellan And Sir Francis Drake

“Magellan’s extraordinary skill as a strategist proved to be the decisive factor in negotiating the entire length of the Dragon's Tail” (Doc C). He ordered lookouts to go to the highest perch on the ship, where they could see obstacles and waterways that were ahead. He sent small scouting parties in long boats who would come back with news of the findings, so that armada could go further ahead.This helped Magellan a lot and he could plan his next move. He often tasted the water to locate where he was. If the water was fresh he knew he was inland, if the water was salty he knew he was close to the

Christopher Columbus theorized that the Earth was round, so he had planned to travel to the Indies by going westward. In 1476, pirates attacked his ship causing it to sink; forced to swim to the Portuguese shore,

The 15th century was a prosperous time for trade and travel for the whole world round, even if some believed the world was flat. Columbus came from this time period in which he was born in Italy to a poor family. Despite living in such an impoverished lifestyle, the young Columbus was flourished in rich learnings of the times and languages. From these beginnings he grew to be a mariner in his twenties. Columbus was in his thirties when he first began his trials to find an Atlantic path to Asia. His only predicament was that he needed a way to finance such a journey to Asia via the Atlantic ocean. Any merchant would be in awe of the idea of an easier path to Asia, but the most notable problem was, was it possible to find such a path within a range that a ship

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.

Christopher Columbus set sail on a voyage out of the Spanish port of Palos on August 3, 1942. He led three ships; the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria. He had an objective to sail west until he reached Asia (the Indies). However, Columbus trip was taking longer than he expected. He kept two logs of his journey, the first was kept a secret. The second log he kept deceive his crew by under-reporting the true distance they had traveled from Spain. The crew caught on to Christopher Columbus deception on October 10th, and Columbus promised his crew if they had not found land in the next two days that they would return home. The next day land was discovered. The voyage almost never happened because Columbus needed his trip to financed, and everyone

The name Christopher Columbus is recognized by many as that of the discoverer of the New World. Variations of this famous name change according to nation, being referred to by the Spaniards as “Cristóbal Colón” and, by those of his own Italian heritage, as “Cristoforo Colombo”. Aside from these insignificant contrasts, his narrative remains unfaltering in its global recognition as a tale of hardships faced and victories won, all met with indubitable passion and determination embodied by Columbus himself to achieve his goals. In August of 1492, he, along with his 87 men, set off in search of a western route to Asia aboard three renowned ships: the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa María. This expedition and the four that would follow began with ambitious visions of monetary gain, religious propagation, and glory, the entirety of these with the overarching theme of competing in the imminent race for continental, and perhaps world, power between civilizations. Before executing this tremendous voyage, however, it was required of Columbus to embark on a search for a willing sponsor with access to resources he otherwise would not be able to obtain. The Genoese explorer at last persuaded rulers of Spain Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon to finance his trip due to a combination of characteristics taking place during his final request of them, specifically the unification of religion during this time, the economic advantages the quest would bring, and the impeccable timing of

-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.

She also decided to send him out on another expedition to explore the Northwestern coast of North America seeking to find a Northwest passage. Sir Francis Drake had 5 ships and among his crew he had John Winters (who was a commander of one of the vessels, and officer Thomas Doughty.) Sir Francis Drake led his ships into the Strait of Magellan to reach the Pacific Ocean. All of sudden they were caught up in a storm reversing the course of the ships returning to England. Sir Francis Drake and his crew then sailed to the coasts of Chile and Peru raiding a unprotected Spanish merchant ship full of treasure.

Christopher Columbus, born in 1451 in Genoa,Italy, believed that sailing to the west across the Atlantic Ocean was the shortest and fastest sea route to the continent of Asia. Columbus did not realize that the western hemisphere is between Europe and Asia. This led to Columbus making the assumption that the Earth was a third of its actual size. Like many others in this time period, Christopher Columbus was unbothered by the political allegiances. He was willing to sail for whatever country would sponsor his voyage. However, he could never find a patron due to his arrogance or ambition. On August 2,1492, Columbus sent 3 ships which were accompanied by crews of eighty-seven men. These men made landfall on October 12th,1492, on the island of San Salvador. He made another voyage and explored present day Puerto Rico and Jamaica. Columbus made two more voyages made between the years of 1498 and 1500 to the Caribbean and the northern coast of South America. Months after he explored present day Cuba and Hispaniola Christopher Columbus found significant amounts of gold. Many of Christopher Columbus’ successes created potential conflict between Spain and Portugal. There are many reasons why the Spanish Monarch hired Columbus to find another route to Asia, however the main reasons are to get the Queen and King more land, riches, and crops.

He was not accepted by King Phillip the second of Portuguese for a three ship voyage of discovery. Columbus took his project idea first to Genon than Venice but still was not accepted there at all too. He went to the Spain monarchy of Isabella and Ferdinand in 1486. The King and Queen said, "They can't help because they were in war now but after the war we will help you." Columbus continued to ask and ask until Spain said "yes". Finally after Spain was out of war, they gave us the support for the long exciting trip. We were off to the New World in the Santa Maria, with the Piñta and the Niña along with us. The Piñta captained by Martian Alonso Pinzon and the Niña by Vicente Xañez

Magellan voyage was perilous and led to his death having got caught up in a local dispute in the Philippines, his remaining crew decided against returning by the same route and opted for taking the better known but risky Portuguese guarded route around Africa. This gave Magellan his title as being the first man to circumnavigate the globe, and revolutionised cartography so that maps fell more in line with those of today

Supporters of the Explorers believe that without them we would not have the New World. Even if he wasn 't the first his goal was to find a route to China going West. In his text/lecture “Ferdinand Magellan (Portuguese Explorer) ”,Francisco Contente Domingues a argues that “On October 12, 1520, he rounded the Cape of the Virgins (Cabo Vírgenes, Argentina) and at approximately 52`50`S entered the passage that proved to be the strait of his seeking, later to bear his name” (Encyclopedia Britannica). Based upon research, it is clear that Ferdinand Magellan is important because he found a different way to go around the world and opened it up for more explorers to come and discover more of the land. He went towards the west because he needed to avoid the Portuguese and because the Pope told him to because of the Treaty of Tordesillas .This research supports the idea that without

In 1492, Ferdinand and Isabella saw the potential of the idea. They decided to fund Columbus with 3 ships. Santa Maria was the largest ship along with two ships, the Pinta and the Nina. Christopher Columbus began his journey on the 3rd day of August 1492 from Palos de la Frontera (Irving 72), a Spanish province of Huelva. On October, an island was spotted. The group of people that was living on that island were the Tainos. The two parties began trading with each other. However, Columbus is still gold-hungry, so he kept wandering around until the Santa Maria crashed at

He likewise was turned around Genoa and Venice, and he experienced difficulty pulling in mariners for his wander in light of the fact that most pilots accurately inferred that Columbus had horribly under-assessed the separation from the Canary Islands to the Orient, and no boats at the time had the limit with respect to the nourishment and water expected to make the excursion. At the point when Queen Isabella of Spain alluded the endeavor to a commission for regal thought, the board arrived at a similar