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Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who captained five Spanish ships and 251 men in the first around-the-world voyage. He was the first explorer to cross the Pacific Ocean and circumnavigate the world.
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How did Magellan injure his leg?
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In his 20's he joined a military expedition and got wounded during a battle in Morocco.
Was Ferdinand Magellan seeking to be rich?
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Ferdinand Magellan was born to a wealthy and noble family. At the age of ten, he was a page to the Queen of Portugal. He attended Queen Leonora's School for Pages and developed an interest in cartography, celestial navigation and astronomy early in life.
How many miles was Ferdinand Magellan's journey?
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roughly 23,000 miles... im actually not sure but its a slightly educated guess.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan's assistant?
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Magellan himself died in the Philippines in 1521, eighteen months before his around the world voyage was completed in 1522. Only one of his five ships, Victoria, completed the circumnavigation of the globe, with just 18 survivors of the 250 who started the journey. Magellan's successor as captain, the Spaniard Juan Sebastian Elcano, decided to continue to sail west after Magellan's death.
The main record of the voyage is the journal was kept by the Italian scholar Antonio Pigafetta, who served as an assistant to both captains.
Did Ferdinand Magellan have a job before he sailed around the world?
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yess he did he was the messenger for the queen at the time... :)
What oceans did Magellan travel in?
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Atlantic ocean, Indian ocean, Pacific ocean
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While the above is true of his voyage, Magellan himself died on Mactan island in the Phillipines, which would be considered to be in the Pacific. Therefore, he may never have entered the Indian Ocean. Although he had been there earlier in his life.
What was Magellan's wife's name?
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Ferninand Magellan's mom is Alda de Mezquita. de Mezquita is her maiden name.
What was Ferdinand Magellan dads job?
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Will someone answer already! theres a 10 year old girl named lauryn out there who has a project due!
Famous pirate ships?
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Below are listed some famous Pirate Ships and the Captains of those ships.
Queen Anne's Revenge - Edward Teach ( Blackbeard )
Adventure Galley - Captain Kidd
The Revenge - Captain John Gow
The William - John Rackham ( Calico Jack ),
Anne Bonney & Mary Reade
Fancy, Pearl, Victory - Edward England
Fancy - Henry Every ( Long Ben )
Royal James - Ignatius Pell
Royal Fortune, Great Fortune & Great Ranger - Bartholomew Roberts ( Black Bart )
Liberty and the Amity - Thomas Tew
Delivery - George Lowther Delivery
The Rising Sun - William Moody
The Ranger - Charles Vane
Jacob, Neptune & Margaret - Samuel Burgess
There is also the so called "Flying Dutchman" which is not actually known to be a real one. But it is a famus one indeed
What did the crew of Ferdinand Magellan accomplish?
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first crew to circumnavigate the world
What was the only ship of Magellan that was able to return to Spain?
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The only one that completed the voyage was the Victoria.
What happened to the voyage of Magellan?
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After Magellan and some crew were killed in the Philippines, the remaining crew found themselves with too few crew to said three ships. On May 2,1521, they abandoned Concepcion, burning the ship to make sure it could not be used against them.
How old was Ferdinand Magellan when his parents died?
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how did hernando cortes parents die
When did Ferdinand Magellans crew reach Spain again?
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=Although, Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippine Islands along with most of his crew, 17 of around 200 crew members survived and safely returned to Spain. They returned on the Victoria, one of the five ships used to circumnavigate the Earth.=
How might you use this document to argue that Magellan was worth defending?
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his dick was small
Magellan's captains of each ships?
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michaelpogi,john earl panget,den mark the horseki,and lex luthor
What year did Ferdinand Magellan start his voyage around the world?
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The first circumnavigation of the world was made by Magellan's fleet between September 20, 1519 and September 6, 1522, nearly three years.
Magellan and his five ships sailed from Seville on August 10, 1519 and left Spain on September 20, 1519.
The one surviving ship returned to Spain on September 6, 1522, under the command of Juan Sebastian Elcano. Magellan died in a battle with natives in the Philippines on April 27, 1521.
Why did Ferdinand Magellan leave his home country?
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He left because he went into dis favor with the king so he went to spain for the king to supprt his jorny
What hardship did Magellan sailor face?
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His parents died when he was 10 years old. He was killed in a battle by a Native Chief.
How did Ferdinand Magellan figure out that the world was round?
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Among the ancient Greeks, Homer thought the world to be flat. In contrast, Pythagoras postulated that the earth was round. A century later, Aristotle sided with the theory of the roundness of the earth.
Leave it to the clever Greek investigator Eratosthenes to bring it all together with a calculation (and a remarkably accurate one!) about the diameter of the earth, and also the inclination of its axis of rotation to its orbital plane about the sun.
Centuries later, independent work was done by Muslims as Europe descended into the Dark Ages. By the 9th century, many Muslim scholars took it for granted that the Earth was a sphere. The proof, said astronomer Ibn Hazm, "is that the Sun is always vertical to a particular spot on Earth". It was 500 years before that realisation dawned on Galileo. The calculations of Muslim astronomers were so accurate that in the 9th century they reckoned the Earth's circumference to be 40,253.4km --less than 200 km out. Later Europeans mistakenly attribute the work for Nicolaus Copernicus.
Edited just correction : with all respect to the one who answered the question, the Europeans did not thought that Copernicus discovred the Earth's Circumference mistakenly , in fact it he stole it and add it to his books is if it was his own work.
