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Ferdinand Magellan was important to the Age of Exploration because he wanted to circumnavigate the world. Though he was killed in the Philippine Islands during a local war, his crew, then under the leadership of Juan Sebastián del Cano, continued to go to the "Spice Islands" and then went home.

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