Circumnavigation

Magellan was a strong leader who showed no weakness towards anyone or anything and always got his jobs done. He stuck to his thoughts and feelings and didn’t let them go. On the other hand, Magellan was a cruel and unfriendly man. He was not worth defending because he showed no respect towards others, was very selfish, and made life threatening decisions that would affect everyone, but himself. Primarily, Magellan showed no respect towards others, especially his crew. When his crew was exhausted after a long night's sleep he wouldn’t let them have the chance to rest, instead they had to look out at night while he went to sleep; to his crew sleep was a luxury. While he was eating all the food that he wanted his crew had to ration their share. By showing that he was strict made his crew hate him and not want to have him as a captain. Many people had to change what they wanted to fit his needs. In the background essay it states, “Many of his own men could have come to the rescue. Most did not.” This quote elaborates on the idea that his crew hated him so much that they just watched him suffer and let him die. He mistreated them and now when he needed them the most they weren’t there to pick him back up. He didn’t treat his crew the way that he wanted to be treated and it came back to haunt him because his crew treated him the same as he treated them. This is one reason why Magellan wasn’t worth saving. Another reason why Magellan wasn't worth saving was because he was selfish.…

that the earth was flat. It almost seems understandable that before the first voyages around the world that the belief of the earth being flat was plausible because if you do not know the solid facts then what information or theories that are provided are the only form of knowledge on that subject and those are the choices to choose from. It maybe an educated guess but it is just that, a guess. Circumnavigation was a huge accomplishment for it's time since boats were not powered by anything but…

western sections of Australia were connected, and his work gave the map of Australia its present shape. Matthew Flinders, an officer of the Royal Navy, first explored parts of the NSW coast south of Sydney with his friend George Bass. The first two trips took place in small open boats (both called Tom Thumb. After a surveying trip south in the Francis, Flinders carried out important work in the Norfolk, including the circumnavigation of Tasmania, also with George Bass. On return to…

Magellan’s Voyage BOOK REPORT Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer and famous for his circumnavigation the world. He was a soldier for eight years serve the Portuguese fleet in Indian Ocean. The entire voyage created a couple of life changing reasons. It created trade troops and revealed the true scale of the earth. It took Ferdinand Magellan five years of planning whether to make his dream into reality. On September 21, 1519, the circumnavigation began from Spain to unknown place. The…

was a new discovery for him and facilitated a room for more sailors to try the circumnavigation in order to find new routes to India to build on Bartholomew Diaz, Vasco Da Gama discovered the sea route to India through East Africa in 1497-1499. He built a port in Kenya and structured a fortress in Kenya and named it Fort Jesus. The Asian maritime trade existed in between the south Asian countries, China, India and the Middle East. This trade existed in the 3rd and the 4th millennia BCE. This…

Ferdinand Magellan was the first to circumnavigate around the world in 1522. He was a Spanish explorer that sailed from 1519-1522. He enlisted under the Spanish King Manuel, and set forth his project for a trip around the world. The expedition set sail August 10, 1519. Magellan was killed in April 1521 in the Philippines, but they had already reached the eastern edge of the known world, and his men completed the voyage to Spain. The voyage proved that the earth is round. Sir Francis Drake was an…

The rescue workers could have easily been caught in the same storm that ruined Abby’s boat. Her rescue could have killed other people in order to save her. Luckily, Abby Sunderland was rescued without a hitch involving no casualties. Not to mention ignorant children who look up to Abby. They might think of the teenager sailor as a role model and want to be just like her. When they grow up they want to sail around, just like Abby. As stated in Joanna Weiss’s article, the Netherlands just…

Greece when philosophers started to separate the creation of the world from cultural myths and the gods. Because of this separation, chaos started to become Kosmos, and cosmology, the study of the makeup of the world. The author of the Kosmos text gives a detailed description of the ocean and the inhabitant world as he knew it. He accounts how the Atlantic Ocean surrounds the inhabitant world and the seas throughout the inhabitant world. However, the validity of his claims becomes unclear as he…

The Historic Tale of Sir Francis Drake A wise man once said, “There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory” (Means 1). This influential man was none other than one of the most prominent explorers Sir Francis Drake.This quote, in my opinion, expresses Drake’s determination to see everything he does through to the end, especially his apprehensible voyages to near ends of the earth. This quote was documented…

the dinosaur. In the earliest ages of man kind, it was a necessity for survival. Though as time passed and humans evolved it became less of a necessity and people started exploring more out of curiosity. In the past there were multiple believes on the shape of the Earth. One of the most oldest and most believed theories was that Earth was flat. It was such a vastly accepted believe it caused Christopher Columbus problems with assembling a crew for his now infamous voyage to America in…