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History Project


Name: Tim Beukers & Max

Class: TH2A

Name teacher: Bregje Van De Ven


Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese Explorer. He was born in 1480 in Sabrosa a village in the north of Portugal when he was young he live in Lissabon and he died on 27 april 1521. He organised the Spanish expeditions to the East Indies and he was the first person to circumnavigate the earth.


Ferdinand Magellan first sailed for the Portuegese fleet there he explored and conquerd parts of the East Indies however he became friends with the king of spain called King Charles I so he became a member of the Spanish fleet. Within the Spanish fleet he made explorations to the Spice island which are now called Indonesia


Ferdinand Magellan was killed in the Philippines Because he converted one of the chiefs there to christianity and to show his power he fought a neigboring tribe with cannons and muskets but he made a tactical mistake and there he was killed by the tribe that were for throwing spears at him.


His names lives on by different companys using his name hotels or restaurants and on the southern tip of south america you have the Strait of Magellan which is a little sea/river which separates the South american mainland and Tierra Del Fuego


In 1520 September 20 a float of five ships that were called The Armade De Molucca. With 250 men on board they sailed out the Spanish port of Sancar De Barrameda. They wanted to find a new route to go around the Americas so they could come to the East Indies. It was a very long trip and the crew had a lot of diseases and there was also a food problem on board so it was a very difficult trip.

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Also in 1509 He went on a exploration to Malakka which is a city in Maleisia but there he got attacked by the Mallacans which were armed with weapons but he escaped and survived.


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Title of section used: The death of Magellan 1521

Date last acces: 28-01 2015

Title of section: voyages

Date last access: 29-01-2015


Books


Titel: Who Was Ferdinand Magellan

Author: S.A Kramer

Publisher: Penguin Group

Location: New York

Copyright Date: August 3rd 2004

pages: 50-80


Titel: Ferdinand Magellan: Circumnavigation The World

Author: Katharine Bailey

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company

Location: Toronto

Copyright Date: 2006

Pages used: 115-160


We fought this project was very fun to make because we could found lots of information about Ferdinand Magellan and it was very interesting to make and read about his life This was our project.

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