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The First Voyage Around the World

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Content and Contextual Analysis

Age of Discovery and Exploration

The Crown Explorers

The Chronicler

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 Content and Contextual Analysis
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of various formats, pictures, audio or videos.

Contextual Analysis
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including multi-media) that helps us to assess
that text within the context of its historical and
cultural setting, but also in terms of its
textuality – or the qualities that characterize the
text as a text.
 Age of Discovery and Exploration
Refers to a period in European history in which several
extensive overseas exploration journeys took place.
Religion, scientific and cultural curiosity, economics,
imperial dominance, and riches were all reasons behind
this transformative age.

Demarcation Line
Treaty of Tordesillas (June 7, 1494)- Resolve issue over
newly discovered lands (East = Portugal; West = Spain)

Treaty of Zaragoza (April 22, 1529)- Moluccas Issue

Trivia
Henry the Navigator encouraged explorers to sail beyond
the mapped routes and discover new trade routes to West
Africa.
 Age of Discovery and Exploration
Factors that led to European exploration
1. Economic Factor
a) Trade of luxury goods (Example: Spices)
b) Commercial routes
2. Scientific and Technological Progress
a) Advance in Carthography
b) Improved ship designs
c) New navigational tools
(Example: Compass)
3. Quest to unknown and distant lands
The Three G Motives
a) God Spreading faith
b) Glory Fame for their actions
c) Gold Wealth and riches
 The Crown Explorers
Name: Fernão de Magalhães
(Portuguese)
Fernando de Magallanes
(Spanish)
Born: Sabrosa, Portugal
Charge: King Charles I
Flagship: Trinidad

Trivia
Magellan approached King
Manuel of Portugal on 3
separate occasions to seek his
support for a westward voyage
to the Spice Islands. The king
refused his petition repeatedly.
Source:
https://www.nationalgeogr
aphic.com/culture/2019/0
9/magellan-first-sail-
around-world-think-again/
 The Crown Explorers
Name: Juan Sebastian Elcano
Born: Guetaria, Spain
Charge: King Charles I
Flagship: Victoria
Legacy: A Spanish Navy’s
training vessel is
named after him.
Trivia
Upon his return to Spain, the
King presented him with a Source:
coat of arms that contained a http://www.kosmospolis.c
om/2019/11/los-
globe with the motto: protagonistas-de-la-gesta-
Primus circumdedisti me de-elcano-y-la-leyenda-
“You went around me first” negra-ii/
 The Chronicler
Name: Antonio Pigafetta
Born: Vicenza, Italy
Status: Patrician of Vicenza
and Member of the
Order of the Knights
of Rhodes
Legacy: He made 23 hand
drawn colored map
Trivia
Pigafetta narrowly escaped
death twice in the Source:
https://philippinediaryprojec
Philippines. t.com/about-the-philippine-
1. Battle of Mactan diary-project/about-the-
2. Feast prepared by diaries/about-antonio-
pigafetta/
Humabon
 The First Hero
Name: Cilapulapu
Lapulapu
Known: Chief of Matan
First Filipino Hero
Trivia
After the Battle of Mactan,
the Aginid says that Lapulapu
decided to return to Borneo
with all his children, wives,
and some of his men.
Source: https://news.abs-
cbn.com/life/05/09/20/rea
Remember dy-to-see-an-aged-
There are no more accounts lapulapu-historians-say-
warrior-hero-was-very-old-
as to how Lapulapu died. at-battle-of-mactan
 The First Hero
Here’s a documentary about Lapu-Lapu produced by
i-Witness, a GMA documentary show
Lapulapu
 The Five-ShipFleet
Trivia
1. Trinidad (flagship) was
named after the Holy Trinity
2. Santiago (smallest) was
adopted from the name of
the Patron Saint of Spain
3. Concepcion was named
after the Immaculate
Conception
4. San Antonio was named
after the Portuguese saint,
Anthony of Lisbon
5. Victoria was a Spanish
carrack or nao (ship). It was
named after the church of
Santa María de la Victoria
Source: https://tagbo.nqc.gov.ph/wp- de Triana.
content/uploads/2021/05/ArmadaDeMalukuFull.jpg
 The First Circumnavigation
Here’s an animated video about the first
circumnavigation produced by Ted Ed.
How Magellan circumnavigated the globe
First Circumnavigation Around the World
Present
Date Event Place
Location
March 16, Reached the
Zamal Samar
1521 isle of Zamal.
Lands in
Humunu
Humunu
(Homonhon)
March 17, Pigafetta-
Samar
1521 Humunu
Watering Place
Albo-Isla de
of good signs
Gada
Mafra-Aguada
Magellan
embraces the
March 18, Humunu
local chief and Samar
1521 (Homonhon)
requests food
and drinks
First Circumnavigation Around the World
March 22, Ancestors
1521 return to Humunu
Humunu with (Homonhon) Samar
food and
drinks
March 25, Leaves Four small Hinunangan
1521 Humunu and islands. (Southern
passed amidst Cenalo, Leyte)
four small Huinanghar, Gibusong
islands. Ibusson, and Island (Loreto,
Abarien Dinagat Island)
March 27, Notices a fire Limasawa,
Identified as
1521 in an island Southern
Mazau
Leyte
March 28, Colambu Limasawa,
1521 welcomes the Mazau Southern
expedition Leyte
 First Circumnavigation Around the World
March 29, Rahaj Siaui
1521 meets Mazau
Magellan
Limasawa,
Casi-casi
Southern
Colambu and Sandugo
Leyte
Magellan enter “to be
into a blood brothers”
compact
March 31, 1st recorded Limasawa,
1521 mass in the Mazau Southern
Philippines Leyte
April 4, 1521 The expedition
leaves for Mazau-Zubu Leyte-Cebu
Cebu
April 7, 1521 The expedition
Zubu Cebu
arrives in Zubu
 First Circumnavigation Around the World
April 8, 1521 Humabon and
his council
meets Zubu Cebu
Magellan’s
emissaries
April 9, 1521 Magellan
proclaims
Humabon Zubu Cebu
sovereign in the
region
April 10, 1521 Humabon
allows Magellan Zubu Cebu
to bury his men
April 14, 1521 The King of
Zubu was then
Zubu Cebu
baptized as a
Christian
 First Circumnavigation Around the World
April 27, 1521 Magellan was
killed in the
Matan Mactan, Cebu
Battle of
Mactan
May 1, 1521 Humabon
invites the
Zubu Cebu
remaining crew
to a banquet
May 2, 1521 The expedition
Zubu Cebu
left Zubu

Interactive Map
Philippines Part in the First Circumnavigation of the World, 1521.
https://nqc.gov.ph/en/map/
Around the World in 200 Message.
https://multimedia.expresso.pt/magalhaes2020/index-
en.html?fbclid=IwAR2FkHpvV0TU_KI52I_1W-
kr8pW9obbiWj8foUnI72ASYYqA4zfqOwTj7ig#inicio
 Theorizing the Visayan Food Magellan
Possibly Ate
Presented by Rolando Borinaga, Ph. D.
UP Manila
Food Item No. Food Possibly cooked/ate
1 Pork a. Pork Stew
b. Broiled Pork
2 Green Vegetables
3 Taro root Known as Gabi
4 Fruits Mangosteen, Mango,
Papaya and Custard-
Apple
5 Fish Broiled or stewed
6 Other sea Perhaps cooked in water
species
 Theorizing the Visayan Food Magellan
Possibly Ate
Food Item No. Food Possibly cooked/ate
7 Palm wine Tuba
8 Figs/ Presumably the ripening
Bananas type
9 Coconut Lamaw-soft meat of
coconut
Butong-water only
10 Honey
11 Pomelo Perhaps sweet oranges
12 Ginger
13 Rice
14 Giant Bat
 Theorizing the Visayan Food Magellan
Possibly Ate
Food Item No. Food Possibly cooked/ate
15 Goat meat
16 Chicken Could have been fried,
meat boiled or stewed
17 Turtle eggs
18 Local Cakes of rice and millet
delicacies Baked and Wrapped in
leaves
Note: See the pdf to read the full account of Pigafetta’s First Voyage Around the
World

National Quincentennial Committee. (Producer). 2020, July 28. Theorizing the

Visayan Food Magellan Possibly Ate [Webinar].
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7IYDKr44b8
 The Aftermath
The Ships
1. Santiago was lost at sea (wrecked in a storm)
2. San Antonio abandoned the expedition and returned
to Spain
3. Concepcion was burned by the crew
4. Trinidad was captured by the Portuguese

The Account
Four manuscript versions of Pigafetta’s journal survive
1. 2 French versions at the Bibliothèque Nationale in
Paris.
2. A French version referred as the Nancy Manuscript,
at Yale University
3. An Italian version at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in
Milan.
 The Aftermath
The Crew
36 men returned to Spain (out of 265, more or less)
*18 crew from Victoria
*13 in Portuguese ships from Cape Verde
*5 survivors from Trinidad
(Pioneers in Australasia, 2011)

Note: The expedition is composed of multinational crew

The Cargo
The cargo (cloves and spices) brought by Victoria pay
the whole cost of the expedition. It also left a profit of
26 tonnes of spices which is worth 500 gold ducats.

*381 sacks of cloves

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Credits
Tagbo Museum for the Highlights of the Philippine Route of the First Circumnavigation photos (Homonhon to
Sarangani)
 SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS
1. Gerona, Danilo Madrid Ph.D. (2017, November 6). THE SHIPS OF MAGELLAN’S ARMADA. Sevilla 2019-
2022. http://sevilla.2019-2022.org/the-ships-of-magellans-armada-by-danilo-madrid-gerona-ph-d-philippines/
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islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous
books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands
from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XXXIII,
1519–1522. Gutenberg.org; Project Gutenberg. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42884/42884-h/42884-h.htm