Ferdinand Magellan

This person called Ferdinand Magellan made the trip to Spices Island by traveling west across the Atlantic, which led him to something that made history. In 1517, Magellan went to Spain hoping he would get support like Columbus in 1492, the Spanish king agreed to give Magellan an armada of five ships. There, Magellan hired a big crew containing roughly 270 young men in their teens and twenties. Magellan started his trip were some situations were happening which led some of his crew to rebel against him and not defend him in April 27, 1521 in the Philippines and unfortunately he died. Was Magellan worth defending? He was not worth defending because of disloyalty to his task, lack of concern for crew and harsh/cruel punishment.

Magellan was not worth defending because of disloyalty to task. This is evident in the document note; Magellan’s main goal was to reach the spice islands. However, while crossing the pacific, he stopped in the Philippines, where he decided that god had an additional purpose for him. He tried to convert people to Catholism(DOC E). In my point of view this is something that can make the crew mad against Magellan, he needs to complete his task, this people might be desperate to get their money from this trip. This meant that even if he made it to the Spice Island, he decided to spread Christianism, in which he is forgetting about his task, the crew might have said: why do we have to defend him in first place, if he is not doing what is he supposed to do.

Magellan was not worth defending because of lack of concern for crew. This is evident in the key boxes, in box A he began his voyage with 280 men in his five ships, as you can see in the box F only one ship arrived with 18 people(DOC A). Another reason is that he regularly sent small scouting parties in the long boats. In my point of view he was putting the people in the long boats in risk since they don’t know this lands, they don’t know what they will find that might be dangerous. This meant that his bad decisions led to almost kill all of his crew, and one of the ways was by sending small scouting parties, this leads to lack of concern of crew.