What is the importance of the journal/chronicle of magellan's voyage, the author's background, the context of the background, the context of the document, and its contribution to understanding philippine history?
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The Fate of Magellan's Mission to Circumnavigate the Word:
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan was commissioned by the king of Spain Charles V in 1519 to find the fastest route to the Philippines, as well as to circumnavigate the world, for the purpose of mapping the globe and establishing a Galleon trade route.
Magellan’s five ships, the Trinidad (commanded by Magellan), the San Antonio, the Victoria, the Conception, and the Santiago set sail August 10, 1519 with a crew of 270 men.
Beginning from Spain Magellan's crew sailed across the Atlantic to Brazil and down the coast of South America, searching for the fabled water passage, which became known as the Strait of Magellan, that would take them to the Pacific side without going around Cape Horn.
It took them 38 days just to clear the strait, after which they emerged in the Pacific ocean in November 1520. Magellan’s crew were the first Europeans to see this ocean.
Magellan had underestimated the size of the Pacific ocean and his ships were not well prepared for the journey. The ship Santiago became lost at sea. Many crew members starved while searching for land. The crew of the San Antonio abandoned the expedition and turned back, leaving only three ships, the Trinidad, the Victoria and the Conception.
Four months later, on March 6, 1521, the ships landed in Guam. Magellan's crew arrived in Guam famished and sickly, some accounts say they were boiling and eating their leather boots. The native CHamorus fed them and they were restored to health. Practising a custom of reciprocity, the CHamorus helped themselves to one of the life boats from the ship. Magellan was angered and ordered his soldiers to attack the village of Umatak, which they burned, killing seven CHamoru men in the process.
After three days in Guam, Magellan's ships replenished their supplies and set sail for the Philippines. They landed in Cebu. Shortly after becoming acquainted with the native people, and against the advise of his men, Magellan led an attack on the natives who would not convert to Christianity. The natives fought fiercely, in spite of Magellan’s European weapons, and Magellan was struck with a poisoned arrow. He died from the wound on April 27, 1521, just five weeks after the incident in Guam. (Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer in history to order the killing of native peoples)
After Magellan's death, Sebastian del Cano (a former mutineer) took command of the two remaining ships, the Trinidad and the Victoria. The Conception had been burned because many of the crew had starved to death and there were not enough men left to operate it. Under del Cano's command, the ships left the Philippines and set out for Moluccas (the Spice Islands). The Trinidad was attacked by a Portuguese ship and was left shipwrecked.
Towards Madagascar and down the African coast brought them back to the Atlantic. In September of 1522, more than three years since their journey began, The Victoria docked back in Seville, Spain. Only one ship of the original five, and only eighteen men survived of the original crew of 270. (Among them was Antonio Pigafetta, a scholar who kept a detailed diary of the expedition).
The Philippines was the “hub” of Magellan’s voyage and is important to Philippine history.
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Wow! What a question. I’ll not try answering it, but bear in mind that the narrative is getting on for 500 years old, and was written in a time when few “ordinary folks” could read or write, the question also arises as to who actually wrote the journal, and when it was actually written. I wonder how anyone knew how many sheets of paper/vellum and quantity of ink should be taken on the voyage. Thus it would suggest the journal was written after returning to Europe, leading to another question, namely, how much was remembered, and what were the criteria to make an indelible mental record to merit mention in the journal. On a voyage around the world in a primitive craft, taking - if memory of school serves, several years, it isn’t surprising that places visited have developed somewhat over the intervening centuries.
Importance of the journal/chronicle of Magellan's voyage, the author's background:
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- Magellan's westward voyage to Asia marks the start of the Philippines’ more interplay with Europe.
- From then on, encounters between Europeans and the local societies of the Philippines could growth main to Spanish efforts to colonize components of the archipelago and hyperlink it to their remote places empire.
- Magellan's group blanketed the Italian pupil Antonio Pigafetta who furnished a first-hand if biased account of the people they encountered.
- His magazine gives current readers a perception of sixteenth-century century European attitudes, however additionally customs and practices of pre-colonial ‘Filipinos' especially societies withinside the Visayas.
- On a voyage round the sector in a primitive craft, taking - if the reminiscence of the school serves, numerous years, it isn’t sudden that locations visited have evolved quite over the intervening centuries.
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