Did magellan really discovered philippines?
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Answer:
History books tell us, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese explorer was the first to discover the Philippines. ... It is believed that around 3,000 B.C., the Malayo-Polynesians began migrating out of Taiwan and landed in Northern Luzon and over the next 2,000 year they spread across the Philippines.
Answer:
NO
Explanation:
On March 16, 1521, Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines and claimed it for the Spanish. History books make it sound like he came across it by accident as he sailed west from Seville looking for a westward route to the Spice Islands. However, it is very likely he knew where the Philippines were. The reason being in 1515, Tome Pires an apothecary for Portuguese Prince Alfonso came across people from Luzon in Malacca. He referred to them as the Luzones and said there must be 500 of them in Malacca. They were the first recorded OFW’s.
Ferdinand Magellan spent a few years in Malacca before his expedition to find a westward route to the Spice Islands so had probably heard tales of Luzon and knew where it was, from the Luzones that worked there.
We are unable to name the first person that discover the Philippines as that person is unknown, what we do know is it was not Ferdinand Magellan as he was a few thousand years too late to be the first.