Trade across the world
The first expedition that went around the world was that of the
Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan.He had set out to find a new route to south asia.
He had come to know that there was a passage from
Atlantic to the
Pacific Ocean through the
continent of South America. In 1519, he set sail towards the west with five ships,around 270 men,and huge amount of supplies.
At the coast of South America,they entered the broad mouth of a river,assuming that was this was the passage by they had heard of.
1520,they finally discover the sought-after sea rought between the
island Tierra del fungo and the southern tip of south America; this route later come to be known as the
Magellan Route.
When the expedition reached the
Indonesian islands.,Magellan started taking possession of them one by one by defeating the spanish kings.When a small islands prosted against the rule of spain,there was a fierce battle in which Magellan was killed.Thw S
paniard juan Sebasian Del Cano now become the captain of remaining ships.After the voyager of long lasting of 3 years,he managed to return to Spain with 17 surviving sailors. They were thus hailed as the first people to sail around the Earth in one -go and not in stages.
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