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- Ferdinand Magellan - ‘Treaty of Tordesillas’ divided the world - Portugal and Spain
- No one knew which half the spice Islands were in .
- Born on 1480 - Portuguese sailor
- 1519 Magellan set sail from Seville to prove they were in Spain
- 5 ships - the Trinidad, the Conception, the San Antonio, the Santiago
and the Victoria
- Looked for passage to Spice Islands
- Spent Winter at Port St. Julian
- Magellan crushed attempted mutiny
- Santiago wrecked in storm
- Magellan found passage to the East through straits ( Magellan Straits )
- Reached a calm ocean called it Pacific
- 3 months to cross ocean , crew died from scurvy
- Magellan reached group of islands ( The Philippines ) .
- Got involved in a tribal war and was killed on 26 April 1521
- The Trinidad returned home the same way it came but was captured
- The Victoria went back through the Indian ocean
- The Victoria captained by ‘Sebastian del Cano' , 18 crew
- Reached Spain
- Circumnavigated around the world
- This proved the Earth was round
What happened as a result of it ?
- New empires - New world Spain built an empire - ‘ The Consquistadores ’
- Famous consquistadores - Hernando Cortes and Francisco Pizzaro