For those wondering the Santiago was the ship that was lost searching for the southern passage. San Antonio turned around, Concepcion was scuttled by the crew at Cebu and Trinidad (the flagship) was captured by the Portuguese and only Victoria returned to Spain.
Do we know what happened to the remains of these ships? Or is any ship of this era nothing but a few dust marks and a few iron anchors at the bottom of the ocean?
@@babonianeggstorm8729 Wood doesn't decay into anything that fasts, but it's probably covered in so much flora and coral that what remains of those ships is part of the ocean floor now.
I love the coat of arms that Elcano received from King Charles of Spain. Two crossed cinnamon sticks along with nutmeg and spice cloves, enhanced with a helmet and the terrestrial sphere, and the motto "Primus circumdedisti me" (you were the first to circumnavigate me). All the adventure in a single image.
Right. And then the left-liberals are now in vogue to hate the conquistadors, Columbus and other discoverers and colonists. They forget that if it were not for colonialism, 2/3 of the world would run bare-handed and would not have
One thing I find cool is that this expedition was happening right at the same time as Cortes was fighting the Aztecs. Like, the Spaniards had no idea what existed beyond the east coast of Mexico but here Magellan was already sailing around America and going across the Pacific Ocean.
@@Zarafin Silly. You're the one coping by telling others they cope while ignoring their argument entirely 'cause you're an impotent coward. Here is a list of places the Vikings did NOT dicover which my people DID by the grace of God: - Honduras -Costa Rica - Virginia - Georgia - Florida - Hawaii (see the video "Spanish Discovery of Hawaii 1555" proving Cook's a fraud) - México - New Mexico - Texas - Mississippi - Carolinas - Dakotas - Perú - Alto Perú ("Bolivia") - Ecuador - Argentina - Chile - Utah - California - Brazil (Orellana got to the Amazon before the Portuguese got to Brazil) - Belize - Jamaica - Cayman Islands - Bermuda - Maryland - Louisiana - Oregon (Spanish name Obregón) - Uruguay - Paraguay - Venezuela - Colombia - El Salvador - Nicaragua - Panamá - Guyana - "French" Guinea - Suriname - Bahamas - Nevada - Puerto Rico - many other Caribbean islands - Oklahoma Probably more I missed.
Who is going to sign up to be the lead when they die halfway through the movie? Or should the movie kind of end when Magellan and them get slaughtered then briefly cover the return to Spain at the end?
I like that this video and the one on Columbus show most of the map in black, demonstrating the uncertainty of the new waters and lands to European explorers. I hope you do another video like this on Francis Drake
Portugal: "I have single-handedly discovered that the Atlantic is connected to the Indian OCean!" About 2,000 years earlier.... Eratosthenes the Greek: "So the Atlantic is connected to the Indian, see?"
"Drake" They knighted a pirate and then a homosexual. Chivalry has long since been dead in England. The "Drake Passage" isn't Drake's 'cause it was Spanish before him, and Argentina still speaks Spanish. Glad London is become Londonistan.
Stories like this makes space exploration seem much less lonely or treacherous. Just merely 500 years ago, people were setting out into complete unknown with leaking ships, not seeing land for 100 days at a time. Now at least we know clearly where the destination is, and there should be continuous communications between travelers and earth (at least within the solar system).
I think the biggest fear with space exploration is there is basically no way to turn back due to lack of fuel. And of course, the small margin of error and error almost always will mean catastrophic failure with either burning to death or boiling to death due to pressure difference. But yeah, we atleast have a very good idea of where we are going :D
They still had sunshine, wind, clouds, fresh air, cool water, animals, fresh food now and then. Travelling through the vastness and emptness of space is something completely different. Today we have the internet and VR though.
I always wonder what people do for fun in these long expeditions that last over years. I mean I can’t imagine what you would do being stuck out in the endless ocean for months and months, and this before the printing press made books cheaply available.
@@HyperSonicX Ya, but I'm not referring to the aftermath but the immediate shock for having lost all but few. It was years before they returned. No need to overanalyze my comment.
I am shivering. This year in Summer time, I had a chance to visit Gran Canari island and entered Colombus Museum. About 500 years ago, the island was witnessing the greatest voyage in that era. The voyage to find a new spice route in Molukas, Indonesia. In the Museum, there are replicas of the ships, maps, letters, and documentations of the spice journey. There are two cockatoo in the garden of the museum. And suddenly, I missed my homeland so much. Almost three years I've not coming back to the land of secret spicies. Wish, 2022 will get better from Corona and I can enjoy the sun and feel the slated fresh air on the Indonesian coast.
A little bit of added context: The reason why Spain and Portugal were so adamant on finding a route to the indies was because the traditional trade routes were now controlled by the Ottoman Empire, heavy tariffs and all
well, Portuguese destroyed the Ottoman fleets, and virtually eliminated all their spice trade. Egypt's sultan wrote a letter to the Pope threatening to kill all Egyptian christians if European ships don't stop their attacks
The true hero of this story was Elcano. Magellan's plan was to return following the same way across the Pacific. After his dead the new comander decided to go home following the portuguese route. Only because Magellan died at Cebu was possible to complete the first travel around the world. But now Magellan is the famous one and Elcano is almost unkown.
Well they actually did try that when they split up, but the ones that followed the initial plan couldn't cross the Pacific and had to surrender to the Portuguese.
Magalhães is the famous one because he was the one with the dream and the balls to get this done. Elcano deserves more merit for sure, but that's how it works, leaders take the full pie of fame. As for Elcano being the "true hero" of this story... that is just subjectivity nonsense, they are all heros in their own way for risking so much in one of the, if not the most dangerous expedition ever done.
@@dharmdevil La esclavitud estaba extendida y admitida por todo el mundo. La de esos nativos, simplemente era más cruel. Sin estos tipos, probablemente tu seguirias en la edad de piedra
Fun fact: Elcano, who already had a lot of experience at the sea, coming from a family of wealthy sailors, and having participated in other expeditions, had to mortgage his ship to some Savoyard merchants in order to pay his crew during the Italian Wars (1494-1559). However, the Spanish Crown never paid him for his services in battle, so he ended up selling it. Selling armed ships in wartime was a crime, making him a fugitive from justice. With this, added to his decision to cross the Portuguese area of influence agreed in the Treaty of Tordesillas, creating a diplomatic conflict later, you can imagine that he did not end very well...
Eleano was from Getaria, a small Basque fishing port in Northern Spain and In his time, most of his countrymen would have been sailing to New Foundland in pursuit of whales and latterly cod. Big business then baleen oil.
Right. And then the left-liberals are now in vogue to hate the conquistadors, Columbus and other discoverers and colonists. They forget that if it were not for colonialism, 2/3 of the world would run bare-handed and would not have
I love the ending of this. Also, something I find interesting is that a lot of us learn the name Magellan as being synonymous with circumnavigating the globe .... but he didn't even survive the whole trip! This was one crazy adventure of an expedition. "Let's try to find our own trade route, WCGW?"
Given how incredibly easy it was, certain synonyms for the expeditions were invented, still in use today. Like "Smooth sailing" , and " A piece of cake" ; - the latter because it would be the only thing left to eat, if everything went according to plan. 😛
Thanks to Pigafetta’s diary we can know all this. To anyone that’s interested in the story, all of it is mostly known today bcs of Antonio Pigafetta, a Spanish writer and knight who had the desire of experiencing a boat trip as the exploring of the world was growing that time. He was one of the 17 survivors, and was able to make friends during the trip, as well as keeping a good relation with Magellan. It’s a really good diary, and you can find books that make really good summaries. I recommend it
Actually Antonio Pigafetta was a citizen of the Republic of Venice, in northern Italy, and in Vicenza his birth town there still is a monument commemorating his journey with Magellan
My first language is Cebuano from Cebu. I read about the native language that Pigafetta wrote in his journal and I understood all of them. It's like almost nothing changed in 500 years. Meanwhile, 1500s England spoke a different English than we do today.
The discrepancy on the day of the week was the first confussion ever about a day lost, because of travelling to the West. I wonder how the flat earth fanatics would explain that.
don't get me wrong, flat earth is a stupidly anti-intellectual crazy conspiracy theory defying basic observations, but that's like the one thing that remains consistent
Actually this would be among the easiest things for flat earthers to explain. Since it would work the same way on a flat earth as on a globe earth. If you want to find any gotchas for the flat earthers, you have to find something that would be different on a flat earth and on a globe earth.
Great this type of topics should be covered more interesting to see how people of the past do like mapping w pace of land or discovering one thing new always good to look at past to understand the mordent society
"The value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises" - Octavio Paz
One common misconception about Magellan's death is that they say that it was Lapu-Lapu that killed the man, but it was actually one of his warriors. Also, the first island they had spotted in the archipelago was the "Homonhon Island" in Samar region. They had named the archipelago as "Las Islas Filipinas" in honor of King Philip of Spain
Las Felipinas is Philippines in English. I understand some of the Spanish. But in our school (Philippines) They said Lapu Lapu killed Magellan during war.
@@acetvgamingyt4166 yeah that's what they usually wrote in textbooks, but the one that dealt the killing blow on Magellan was never named. Lapu-Lapu got the credit, because he's the leader of the tribe that defeated the Spaniards
I think Samar is in my huge realistic map of half of the world with America in the center, for Age of EMpires 2HD. Check it out if you want to be epic. I did it primarily to have the Aztec Empire fight the Incan in the proper context.
The black covering the rest of the world really gives it the feeling the sailors had when they traveled to those places. Makes you feel how anxious they would feel not knowing where they are, if they will reach land soon or die, etc etc. Very well done.💯
I’ve been into Limasawa Island before in 2018, and the island is full with crosses, rocks, cliffs, and beaches. It is truly remarkable. That the locals on that island that i’ve gone to are simply friendly.
"so you came from america?" "yeah" "and you helped catch the spanish expedition to the malacas?" "yep" "alr cool, btw that bread and fish will cost 10 reals" "I don't have any money, but here, have theese fresh newly grown expensive plants that only grow in the malacas." "..." "..." "guards!" "aw fu-"
FACTS ABOUT SPANISH PHILIPPINES Spanish Manila and Philippines was seen in the 19th century as a model of colonial governance that effectively put the interests of the original inhabitants of the islands before those of the colonial power even they were bankrupted several times in maintaining the Philippines. As John Crawfurd put it in its History of the Indian Archipelago, in all of Asia the "Philippines alone did improve in civilization, wealth, and populousness under the colonial rule" of a foreign power. John Bowring, Governor General of British Hong Kong from 1856 to 1860, wrote after his trip to Manila: "Credit is certainly due to Spain for having bettered the condition of a people who, though comparatively highly civilized, yet being continually distracted by petty wars, had sunk into a disordered and uncultivated state. The inhabitants of these beautiful Islands upon the whole, may well be considered to have lived as comfortably during the last hundred years, protected from all external enemies and governed by mild laws vis-a-vis those from any other tropical country under native or European sway, owing in some measure, to the frequently discussed peculiar (Spanish) circumstances which protect the interests of the natives." In The Inhabitants of the Philippines, Frederick Henry Sawyer wrote: "Until an inept bureaucracy was substituted for the old paternal rule, and the revenue quadrupled by increased taxation, the Filipinos were as happy a community as could be found in any colony. The population greatly multiplied; they lived in competence, if not in affluence; cultivation was extended, and the exports steadily increased. [...] Let us be just; what British, French, Portuguese or Dutch colony, populated by natives can compare with the Philippines as they were until what 1895?." Asia's oldest and continue modern learning institution was University of Santo Tomas (Dominican, OP), est. 1611. Universidad De San Ignacio (Jesuit, now defunct when Pope suspended Jesuits for brief period of time) est. 1601. University of San Carlos, est. 1595. The Augustinians opened a parochial school in Cebu in 1565. The Franciscans, took to the task of improving literacy in 1577, aside from the teaching of new industrial and agricultural techniques. The Jesuits followed in 1581, as well as the Dominicans in 1587, setting up a school around archipelago. The church and the school cooperated to ensure that Christian villages had schools for students to attend. Schools for boys and for girls were then opened. Colegios were opened for boys, ostensibly the equivalent to present day senior high schools. The Universidad de San Ignacio, founded in Manila by the Jesuits in 1589 was the first colegio. Eventually, it was incorporated into the University of Santo Tomas, College of Medicine and Pharmacology following the suppression of the Jesuits. Girls had two types of schools - the beaterio, a school meant to prepare them for the convent, and another, meant to prepare them for secular womanhood. The Spaniards are the ones who taught the Filipinos to worship the True God (Biblical God). Jesus was Asian* Judea, Samaria is part of Continental Asia. Christianity made the Filipinos to abandon pagan ways, polygamy, war freak attitude, infanticide and learn temperance, monogamy, resilience and more refined characteristics based from the teachings of Catholic Christianity. Spaniards defeated and ends the warring Hindus, Buddhist, Animist and Islamic chiefdoms all over archipelago and united it into a single governing entity as Spanish East Indies under Spanish Crown. The Spaniards are the ones who taught the Filipinos to eat sardines, made and eat pandesal bread during breakfast, drink coffee and chocolate, to wear modest dress because ancient Filipinos were almost half naked and to watch stage plays. Spanish regime exploited Filipinos and its land resources, but in fairness it brought and taught more civilized way of life to the Filipino people that British, French, Portuguese, and Dutch implemented in their colonies in late 1900s. How successful Spanish are!?. By late 1900s, Philippines is the only majority Christian nation in Asia, 95% Catholics that practiced Hispanic culture, speaking Castillian Spanish as lingua franca long before Ethnic Tagalog dialect and English implemented in schools after Americans banned Spanish in 1901. #HistoryOfFilipinas #VivaIslasLasFilipinas Asians by Blood, Spanish in Culture, Catholic Christianity by Religion
Now that's the real truth. Not all people are perfect, but Spain did really gave us a path to modernity. So many contributions from them. Mabuhay Pilipinas!!! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭 Its a shame that none of these quotes are stated in grade school/high school textbooks. DepEd must be filled with coños 🤔
Truly an epic journey! I circumnavigated the world once when I flew from Colorado Springs to Houston to San Francisco to Incheon to Hong Kong to London to Denver in a span of 3 months in 2010.
Your explanation misses one important point. They were not only trying to sail to the Moluccas going west but also to determine if the Moluccas were in the Portuguese or Spanish hemisphere as determined by the tordesillas counter meridian. They probably established that the Moluccas were on the Portuguese side and thus the western trade route was useless at least to those islands. So in fact the expedition was a failure. But of course many opportunities arise from failures.
No fue ningún fracaso, Carlos V sabe que están del lado portugués, pero se asegura Filipinas y se las vende a los portugueses que no están seguros que caigan de su lado. Hizo un gran negocio
@@tombellum6815 I disagree that Carlos V knew where the Moluccas were. There was doubt, even after Magellan. That's why there was an escape clause in the Zaragoza treaty and that's why the line drawn at Zaragoza treaty contradicts Tordesillas when it should coincide. I agree that the treaty of Zaragoza was a good deal for Spain but that happened because it decided to ignore the provisions from Tordesillas and colonize the Moluccas anyway (see the Laoísa expedition and later). The Philipines were not colonized by Carlos V but by Filipe II thus the name Philipines! That happened later and of course it was in contradiction with the Tordesillas and Zaragoza treaty. But by that time Portugal was also breaching the treaty in Brazil. So all in all, sumarizing posterior events is a mistake. The magellan expedition itself failed in its main goal, that is clear. That does not mean it did not accomplish several important actions. Some intended, such as finding the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, some unintended.
without the Portuguese nobleman - Magellan, this expedition never happens to begin with. also , half of the crew consisted of Portuguese, French, Basque, Italian officers and seamen. this was more of a multinational endeavor, rather than strictly Spanish. it was another in a long list of foreign captains and sailors who helped the Spanish crown.
@@SergioRPerez true. but the Spanish in particular, had a tendency to employ many foreigners. were as the Portuguese on the other hand were more self reliant, using mostly their own to man their ships.
@@bconni2 That is correct but you don’t build an empire just with your own countrymen. I think the Spanish monarchy at that time had this concept very clear and it worked for them. Also, by that time the loyalty was more with the one who can pay.
Yet in life, it is the people who paid for it that get the glory and the profits in history. The Persian empire was very similar to the Spanish. I don't know everything but I will get ahold of the people who do.
I think they are not that distant from each other, basically one folk divided by history and geography, same situation what happened with part of a Russian people, who today's known as liitle Russians and white Russians (ukrainians and belorussians).
Thank you for recognizing the inadvertent role played by the Malay slave Enrique de Malacca in the world's first circumnavigation. While Sebastian Elcano deserves full credit for his navigation and seamanship, Enrique's role as an interpreter was a major one for the expedition, whether the result was considered good or bad in the end.
And if Enrique hitched a ride back home from the Philippines in the first several months then he was the first person to circumnavigate the earth. We'll most likely never know if he did it.
@@GeoHistory Also you can discover to your western audience travels of Afanasij Nikitin to the middle Asia, near east and Ost Indias and back to Russia if you don't mind.
How far east did Magellan travel on his longest earlier trip? If he ever passed Cebu's longitude of approx. 124°E, then he'd have circumnavigated the world upon his arrival in Cebu from the other direction. Just not on one trip.
And likewise if he had any of the same sailors with him as he did on that trip to Malacca where he got that slave, then they would have achieved the goal just after Magellan died.
Magalhães was a sailor in the Portuguese armada to India before the circunnavigation trip. He did the most dificult sea voyage ever before the circunnavigation in the Portuguese armada to the spice islands. He was the 1st one to do the full circunnavigation because ot that. 1/2 of the journey was done in the Portuguese armada, the other 1/2 in the Spanish expedition...
@@davidwuhrer6704 In the armada to India...he reached the islands of banda, same latitude of the Philipines 😉 For the Portuguese everything was India....he did a full circunavigation alright!
@@luismarques9280 I see. I'd say if he touched the same point from both sides of the world (while crossing the equator in between), that's a circumnavigation. I'm not sure if the same latitude is enough. Otherwise you might travel from the north pole to the south pole and claim to have circumnavigated the world.
In Puerto San Julián in Argentina is the monument to the first mass, which commemorates the first mass in Argentine territory and the first round the world, and in Chile is the monument to the first circumavement of the world in Punta Arenas
Fun fact: ten years before the expedition, Magellan travelled to the Phillipines, to the same spot he died at. So, Magellan was the first person to travel around the world. It just took a while.
0:12 " *1582 Around this time Portugal begins maritime explorations along the African Coast* " Begins??? Around *1340-1345* , there were expeditions to the Canary Islands In 1418 Madeira island was re-reached by Portuguese sailors In 1425 Madeira island started to be colonized, In 1434 Cape Bojador was crossed In 1448, A feitoria was created in Arguim In 1576 Luanda City in Angola was founded etc..etc Even New Found Land was probably knew by the Portuguese around 1582
So they have a replica ship in Punta Arenas, Chile that you can visit and go inside. It really put into perspective how cramped and small the ship is and shows the perseverance of the crew. You would not want to be stuck on that thing for 3 years, I can assure you.
That day of the week discrepancy is similar to the one that happens in "Around the World in 80 Days" Jules Verne's novel. In this case the reason why is that they travelled away from the Sun, which set them back by 4 minutes each degree they advanced towards the West, and one whole turn (360º) around the globe adds up to exactly 24 hours.
And it took almost half a Millennium for the Land of Fire and the Magellan Strait to be under the sovereignty of a westernized power, in the early 20th Century. That’s how remote the route was.
This really captures how bigger and stranger the world would’ve been back then. There was so much unknown about the Earth’s surface. They made incredibly long and perilous journeys with so much less technology than we have today. And it’s on that foundation, that a world so shrunken, interconnected and explored like our own today was able to come to be.
Yup, just like what I have learned from Readings in Philippine History. We still struggle to locate where did the first mass occured when Magellan went here in the Philippines but we recognized the Limasawa Island to be the first sight where the mass happened. Happy Quincentennial of Catholicism to our country! (1521-2021)
@@patrickbueno3279 porque? Enrique no hizo nada para hacerlo. 1.En primer lugar, está por demostrar que realmente completara la vuelta, porque no consta que volviera de Filipinas a Malaca. 2.si llega a hacerlo, tendría que hacerlo antes de que Elcano llegue a Sanlúcar, lo que no parece sencillo en absoluto. No había una línea de ferrys de Cebú a Malaca. 3. De haberlo hecho, lo habría hecho sin querer, y en contra de su voluntad. 4. La aportación a la humanidad la realiza, sin ninguna duda, Elcano. Es el primero que prueba empíricamente que la tierra es redonda
@@patrickbueno3279 We don't really have any proof of that. It's also possible some of the sailors onboard the ships had been that far east before already, just like Magellan had.
@@Jotari and that's the problem, this notion that they are the first ones to circumnavigate first is very eurocentric view, that it limits who might have done it. I supported Enrique as the first because it's a place of his homeland and just really going back there.
Incredible story. It reminds me of one of Fernando Pessoa's most famous poems. He was Portuguese, but it certainly applies to all those brave men: O salty sea, so much of whose salt Is Portugal’s tears! All the mothers Who had to weep for us to cross you! All the sons who prayed in vain! All the brides-to-be who never Married for you to be ours, O sea! Was it worth doing? Everything’s worth doing If the soul of the doer isn’t small. Whoever would go beyond the Cape Must go beyond sorrow. God placed danger and the abyss in the sea, But he also made it heaven’s mirror.
For those saying Elcano was Basque... Yes, and Spanish. He was born in Guetaria, Guipuzcoa, in 1476. And Guipuzca was part of Castilla's Crown since 1200, under King Alfonso VIII de Castilla. And Magallanes obtained Spanish nationality under emperor Carlos I
yeah,. they start an expedition into nothing but sea and have no idea where they are going. Imagine being at sea for 3 months , not seeing land , having no food, no way back , since the streams only go west. That could drive you insane.
@@janjamesramos247 they have an idea of the general direction they are going, yes. But they have no idea if there is land, food, fresh water or freindly natives whereever they are going. It is super dangerous.
@@janjamesramos247 as far as I know they weren t exactly sure how big earth is. So they might have expected to bump into another continent earlier or at the very least find more land they hadn t discovered yet. Even today we often underestimate the vastness of the pacific ocean since it is often depicted at the fringes of the world map
Magellan's trip was quite the odyssey and it's tough to do it justice in 10 minutes, but Geohistory does a great job! For a deeper dive I'd recommend the book "Over the Edge of the World" by Laurence Bergreen.
I've bought and read that book. It got me interested in all maritime exploration pre-1900s. It's a great book and I've chosen to keep it rather than drop it in a library return box. I do that with all the books I read and decide not to keep.
A Filipino-Cebuano, the translator of Magellan during the expedition was the first man who circumnavigate the world. Not Elcano. The name was Enrique from Cebu.
Emperor Carlos said: "Hablo latín con Dios, español con las tropas, francés con las damas, italiano con los músicos, alemán con los lacayos e inglés con mis caballos y perros". I SPEAK LATIN WITH GOD, SPANISH WITH THE TROOPS, FRENCH WITH THE LADIES, ITALIAN WITH THE MUSICIANS, GERMAN WITH MY GOONS AND ENGLISH WITH MY HORSES AND DOGS."
@@jmiquelmb I hit a nerve, so here's more because history offends you, and I enjoy seeing anti-Spanish pride trampled. The British Empire wasn't the biggest. Only hypocrites count oceans of sand but not oceans. The Spanish Emperor monopolized most oceans in the universe during the Iberian Union when England was irrelevant. And France. And Netherlands. But the Brits had to share every single ocean with the French and others! LOL! Hail Iberia! Iberia ruled more waves! And since earth is more water than land, SPAIN WINS! See the video "Spanish discovery of Hawaii 1555" Brits were just followers.
I knew this story since I was a child since I originally came from the Philippines and they teach about Magellan's fight with Lapulapu and Lapulapu killing Magellan and becoming the first hero in the Philippines. And ever since then, I kept researching this story more and finding out that Magellan is actually Portuguese not Spanish, Humabon being the reason why Magellan and Lapulapu fought in the first place and the hardship of the expedition. But this is the first time I find out that the Spanish and Portuguese were at odds with each other and the Spanish trying to evade the Portuguese. All this time, I thought they were allied with each other since Magellan himself is a Portuguese participating in an expedition led by Spain.
Fernão de Magalhães (name in portuguese) was basically disowned by the portuguese empire, for short, so that's why he's used a Spanish translation of his name, Magalhães -> Magellan. I'm portuguese myself and always see people bitching about how he was Magalhães not Magellan but since it was Spain that believed in his voyage, i don't see a problem in Magellan being the name recorded in history.
@@paranodrum9171 The Philippines honors him. There's even a railway station named after him in Spanish. Magallanes station. We pronounce ll the old Spanish way, using both the letters l and y, so it's Magalyanes, not Magayanes.
I love the anecdote about the log book being off by a day, of course because by going around the world westwards, they had slowly “unset the sun” one time over the three year journey :)
No me puedo imaginar la sensacion de viajar en un barco por meses en el oceano, con el peligro que una tormenta lo destruya, que te ataquen piratas, cagar en el barco, no bañarte y comer un numero limitado de provisiones para llegar a tierra a lugares hostiles con peligro de morir . . .
If you are interested in the story, I can recommend Stefan Zweig's book "Magellan" on the subject. He is a great storyteller and goes alot more in-depth. Its definitely a story that deserves to be told in full The mutiny for example was the result of tension that had been brewing for a long time between Magellan and the spanish captains appointed by the king. It reads out like a movie Oh and the expedition actually attempted to prove that the spice islands were in the Spanish part. The calculations were done by a world famous astronomer at the time (but it turned out they were all wrong lol). There are alot more details in the book about the killing of natives on the island of thieves, how the slave betrayed them etc etc
Wow !!.. I remember this voyage studying at Primary School. Thinking, these people sailed towards a crazy discovery; all the sacrifice, suffering they endured.
I wish people would stop buying this voice guy. What makes videos special is that people who are actually ecstatic to talk about a topic, speak about it. Not just they have a baritone voice and deliver every video in exactly the same tone. Sorry if im being so direct
@@matacabrones4317 even then the guy who proved it was round, Eratosthenes of Alexandria, calculated within a pretty decent margin of error how big it was (essentially, once you know it's curved, you can get an idea of *how* curved it is because math, Carl Sagan famously replicated the experiment a few years ago) Columbus must have known about this and either bluffed to convince the Spanish crown to fund him or, more likely imo since he did seem genuinely convinced he had made it to Asia, he just kind of sucked at math and ended up the luckiest man on earth. Like, if you know how far east Asia is which they did, and how far away west it is which they had a rough ballpark for, you eventually put two and two together and figure out that Cuba is not in fact Japan. Which is why maps barely a decade after Columbus died recognized it was in fact a completely new continent.
Nice work! I always wondering how the black cloud is made, with Unity? The May 1 Massacre and Escape through Brunei are omitted (the reason why they spend six months from Phillipine to Spice Islands), but that is reasonable as the original journal was not detailed on that part of journey.
Great animation and explanation. I love the black fog that show undiscovered land by European sailors. I really enjoy watching videos in this channel. Thank you for mentioning Henrique de Malacca. I don't know if he is well-known in other countries, but as someone from maritime South-east Asia, I really appreciate you mentioning him.
4:44 PACIFIC OCEAN IN NORWEGIAN IS STILLEHAVET HVICH MEANS SILLENT OCEAN AND FUN FACT MADELA DIED 24th DECEMBER 1521 SO ON FRIDAY HE HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 500 YEARS
Who is madela, do you mean Mandela? And did you know that in both Portuguese and Spanish Pacific Ocean are written nearly the same literally meaning Pacific Ocean? Portuguese- Oceano Pacífico Spanish- Océano Pacífico There is basically nothing different at all.
When I was reading my "(Anonymous) History" book, I read the part when the commander of the San Antonio,Juan de Cartagena, planned a desertion from Magellan's fleet, Magellan left him in an unnamed island near Port San Julian with a priest. And I sometimes wonder that which island was he left on?
Right. And then the left-liberals are now in vogue to hate the conquistadors, Columbus and other discoverers and colonists. They forget that if it were not for colonialism, 2/3 of the world would run bare-handed and would not have
saying that "basically spain discovered everything" is the equivalent of saying that "basically the US won the space race". wildly accepted, but ignoring that Portugal, like the soviet union, archieved lots of great conquests that got covered by the columbus and Magelan and the moon landing respectively.
Magallanes se nacionalizó español antes de salir, le fue impuesta esa condición. Y patagones NO viene de que los nativos sean altos si no que usaban pieles de gauanaco para cubrirse los pies por lo que dejaban un gran huella en la nieve como si fuesen gigantes. El origen del nombre patagones es que los expedicionarios españoles llamaron así a los nativos inspirados en un personaje novelesco de la época, un gigante llamado Patagón.
@@userytx you are right, but he actually meant that Magallanes had to swear an oath to serve the Spanish Crown and King Carlos I, granting that the equivalent of what we’d call “citizenship” today (loyalty to the Kingdom). So yeah, in a way he was.
I love how almost everyone treat Magellan as a hero. In our contry, he is treated as a villain while lapu-lapu is a hero. Even though its not his fault entirely, his expedition starts the 300 year of spanish occupancy.
It's like with Columbus. Most educated people know he was an asshole and did some awful things but he still did all the things in the video which is always worth talking about.
Wish this is how this was taught in my History class 20 years ago. So beautifully comprehensive. I really appreciate how the map is left dark until its explored.
Really great video. I have recently started reading Shogun by James Clavell, and it's set in 1600 CE. Right after these events. Was really curious to see who is the Magellan in Cape of Magellan, and lo, here's a neat video describing things.
The black clouds really make it feel like you're exploring a fantasy map
EU4 lol
Anyone remember Might and Magic from the early 90s?
yeah lol
It reminded me of Warcraft days
@@angelserenade Yeah, that, too. :) Good times.
For those wondering the Santiago was the ship that was lost searching for the southern passage. San Antonio turned around, Concepcion was scuttled by the crew at Cebu and Trinidad (the flagship) was captured by the Portuguese and only Victoria returned to Spain.
Do we know what happened to the remains of these ships? Or is any ship of this era nothing but a few dust marks and a few iron anchors at the bottom of the ocean?
@@babonianeggstorm8729 probably the latter
@@babonianeggstorm8729 Wood doesn't decay into anything that fasts, but it's probably covered in so much flora and coral that what remains of those ships is part of the ocean floor now.
Funny that the one that reached Spain was VICTORY.
what was the ship who went back to accuse mangella?
I love the coat of arms that Elcano received from King Charles of Spain. Two crossed cinnamon sticks along with nutmeg and spice cloves, enhanced with a helmet and the terrestrial sphere, and the motto "Primus circumdedisti me" (you were the first to circumnavigate me). All the adventure in a single image.
Orgasmic
@@josuealvaradoberrocal5098 wtf
Right. And then the left-liberals are now in vogue to hate the conquistadors, Columbus and other discoverers and colonists. They forget that if it were not for colonialism, 2/3 of the world would run bare-handed and would not have
@@confederaterussian5945 why are you saying this on every comment? seems pretty pathethic
Carlos of Spain*
One thing I find cool is that this expedition was happening right at the same time as Cortes was fighting the Aztecs. Like, the Spaniards had no idea what existed beyond the east coast of Mexico but here Magellan was already sailing around America and going across the Pacific Ocean.
Vikings discovering America is like saying a blind man who touched one hair of an elephant's tail discovered the elephant.
@@scintillam_dei Cope harder.
@@Zarafin Silly. You're the one coping by telling others they cope while ignoring their argument entirely 'cause you're an impotent coward. Here is a list of places the Vikings did NOT dicover which my people DID by the grace of God:
- Honduras
-Costa Rica
- Virginia
- Georgia
- Florida
- Hawaii (see the video "Spanish Discovery of Hawaii 1555" proving Cook's a fraud)
- México
- New Mexico
- Texas
- Mississippi
- Carolinas
- Dakotas
- Perú
- Alto Perú ("Bolivia")
- Ecuador
- Argentina
- Chile
- Utah
- California
- Brazil (Orellana got to the Amazon before the Portuguese got to Brazil)
- Belize
- Jamaica
- Cayman Islands
- Bermuda
- Maryland
- Louisiana
- Oregon (Spanish name Obregón)
- Uruguay
- Paraguay
- Venezuela
- Colombia
- El Salvador
- Nicaragua
- Panamá
- Guyana
- "French" Guinea
- Suriname
- Bahamas
- Nevada
- Puerto Rico
- many other Caribbean islands
- Oklahoma
Probably more I missed.
@@scintillam_dei Cope, seethe, mald.
@@Zarafin Cope, flee, lie.
Damn, what a story. This should be a movie!
I already imagine some big words saying "MAGELLAN" or something with a big man on a ship in the movie cover.
@@DiggyPT there isn't a movie about this ?
Who is going to sign up to be the lead when they die halfway through the movie? Or should the movie kind of end when Magellan and them get slaughtered then briefly cover the return to Spain at the end?
@@mambamentality5875 maybe it stops at the massacre and then another movie comes out with the rest
@@marte1587 nah, i dont think so but a movie about this would be epic
I like that this video and the one on Columbus show most of the map in black, demonstrating the uncertainty of the new waters and lands to European explorers. I hope you do another video like this on Francis Drake
Yes.
Yeah me too!
Portugal: "I have single-handedly discovered that the Atlantic is connected to the Indian OCean!"
About 2,000 years earlier....
Eratosthenes the Greek: "So the Atlantic is connected to the Indian, see?"
"Drake" They knighted a pirate and then a homosexual. Chivalry has long since been dead in England.
The "Drake Passage" isn't Drake's 'cause it was Spanish before him, and Argentina still speaks Spanish.
Glad London is become Londonistan.
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Stories like this makes space exploration seem much less lonely or treacherous. Just merely 500 years ago, people were setting out into complete unknown with leaking ships, not seeing land for 100 days at a time. Now at least we know clearly where the destination is, and there should be continuous communications between travelers and earth (at least within the solar system).
True
at least they didn't have to bring their air along and could stop and resupply occasionally. so, the danger is different but similar in scale IMO
Yes! Let's do it
I think the biggest fear with space exploration is there is basically no way to turn back due to lack of fuel. And of course, the small margin of error and error almost always will mean catastrophic failure with either burning to death or boiling to death due to pressure difference.
But yeah, we atleast have a very good idea of where we are going :D
They still had sunshine, wind, clouds, fresh air, cool water, animals, fresh food now and then. Travelling through the vastness and emptness of space is something completely different. Today we have the internet and VR though.
I always wonder what people do for fun in these long expeditions that last over years. I mean I can’t imagine what you would do being stuck out in the endless ocean for months and months, and this before the printing press made books cheaply available.
gamble, dice and card games, singing and playing music, sleeping, and most of all WORKING!
Turning gay I presume.
The printing press alrealdy existed for some 70 years.
Probobly mostly trying to survive and save what can be saved. I mean it was really hard to pull of such a thing
@@chrishansen456 not really any time for that while scooping water out, and sealing leaks.
Blacking out those areas that were unknown at the time was a nice touch as it emphasized what the explorers knew and not what we know now. Good job.
Great production! I liked the "fog of unexplored land", it really gives the idea of the absolute unknown beyond that.
~230 left, 17 returned. Damn.
Some of the people captured in Cape Verde and on the Trinidad came home after Elcano, the Wikipedia page lists them.
@@HyperSonicX Ya, but I'm not referring to the aftermath but the immediate shock for having lost all but few. It was years before they returned. No need to overanalyze my comment.
@@HyperSonicX Yep. 108 came back in total.
@@dvchel Oh you include the deserted ship too. Fair enough, I guess they did come back, even if they didn't circumnavigate.
18 people to be precise, 1 captain and 17 sailors. And more people returned over the years through various routes.
I am shivering. This year in Summer time, I had a chance to visit Gran Canari island and entered Colombus Museum. About 500 years ago, the island was witnessing the greatest voyage in that era. The voyage to find a new spice route in Molukas, Indonesia.
In the Museum, there are replicas of the ships, maps, letters, and documentations of the spice journey. There are two cockatoo in the garden of the museum. And suddenly, I missed my homeland so much. Almost three years I've not coming back to the land of secret spicies. Wish, 2022 will get better from Corona and I can enjoy the sun and feel the slated fresh air on the Indonesian coast.
I wish you a soon and safe travel to Indonesia!
You’re shivering, are you cold?
are you home yet?
You forgot they discovered 2 galactic clouds during their pacific crossing and named it Magellanic Clouds
didn't know this.
A little bit of added context: The reason why Spain and Portugal were so adamant on finding a route to the indies was because the traditional trade routes were now controlled by the Ottoman Empire, heavy tariffs and all
Yep you could say the fall of constantinople is one of the big catalysts for the exploration that happens later
And the Ottoman empire actually tried to invade Morocco at that time so they could participate in establishing overseas colonies in Americas
well, Portuguese destroyed the Ottoman fleets, and virtually eliminated all their spice trade. Egypt's sultan wrote a letter to the Pope threatening to kill all Egyptian christians if European ships don't stop their attacks
@@matacabrones4317
What's the ratio of christians in Egypt today?
The true hero of this story was Elcano. Magellan's plan was to return following the same way across the Pacific. After his dead the new comander decided to go home following the portuguese route. Only because Magellan died at Cebu was possible to complete the first travel around the world. But now Magellan is the famous one and Elcano is almost unkown.
Well they actually did try that when they split up, but the ones that followed the initial plan couldn't cross the Pacific and had to surrender to the Portuguese.
Magalhães is the famous one because he was the one with the dream and the balls to get this done. Elcano deserves more merit for sure, but that's how it works, leaders take the full pie of fame.
As for Elcano being the "true hero" of this story... that is just subjectivity nonsense, they are all heros in their own way for risking so much in one of the, if not the most dangerous expedition ever done.
@@sjwarialaw8155 You're calling these slavers, people who have come to native lands to ransack and abuse the population heroes?
@@sjwarialaw8155 Sin Elcano, nadie sabría quién fue Magallanes.
@@dharmdevil La esclavitud estaba extendida y admitida por todo el mundo. La de esos nativos, simplemente era más cruel.
Sin estos tipos, probablemente tu seguirias en la edad de piedra
Fun fact: Elcano, who already had a lot of experience at the sea, coming from a family of wealthy sailors, and having participated in other expeditions, had to mortgage his ship to some Savoyard merchants in order to pay his crew during the Italian Wars (1494-1559). However, the Spanish Crown never paid him for his services in battle, so he ended up selling it. Selling armed ships in wartime was a crime, making him a fugitive from justice. With this, added to his decision to cross the Portuguese area of influence agreed in the Treaty of Tordesillas, creating a diplomatic conflict later, you can imagine that he did not end very well...
Oh well that sad.
@@asaifaji At least he died happy. And we are remembering him now
Eleano was from Getaria, a small Basque fishing port in Northern Spain and In his time, most of his countrymen would have been sailing to New Foundland in pursuit of whales and latterly cod. Big business then baleen oil.
Right. And then the left-liberals are now in vogue to hate the conquistadors, Columbus and other discoverers and colonists. They forget that if it were not for colonialism, 2/3 of the world would run bare-handed and would not have
Yeah, Elcano ended beeing Rich, with a nobility Title and being Recognized in his country
I love the ending of this. Also, something I find interesting is that a lot of us learn the name Magellan as being synonymous with circumnavigating the globe .... but he didn't even survive the whole trip! This was one crazy adventure of an expedition. "Let's try to find our own trade route, WCGW?"
Looks like everything went wrong 😑
He knew perfectly well he could die on the way. People were much more comfortable with the prospect of dying than they are now because of their faith.
Given how incredibly easy it was, certain synonyms for the expeditions were invented, still in use today. Like "Smooth sailing" , and " A piece of cake" ; - the latter because it would be the only thing left to eat, if everything went according to plan. 😛
Thanks to Pigafetta’s diary we can know all this. To anyone that’s interested in the story, all of it is mostly known today bcs of Antonio Pigafetta, a Spanish writer and knight who had the desire of experiencing a boat trip as the exploring of the world was growing that time. He was one of the 17 survivors, and was able to make friends during the trip, as well as keeping a good relation with Magellan. It’s a really good diary, and you can find books that make really good summaries. I recommend it
That sounds fascinating. Incredible to think there exists a firsthand account of this insane voyage. Hopefully I can find a book on it.
Antonio Pigafetta was Italian who was serving the Spanish crown. Many people think that he was the pope’s spy.
Actually Antonio Pigafetta was a citizen of the Republic of Venice, in northern Italy, and in Vicenza his birth town there still is a monument commemorating his journey with Magellan
@@francescourbani3320 actually, you are totally right. There wasn’t Italy as a state at that time.
My first language is Cebuano from Cebu. I read about the native language that Pigafetta wrote in his journal and I understood all of them. It's like almost nothing changed in 500 years. Meanwhile, 1500s England spoke a different English than we do today.
The discrepancy on the day of the week was the first confussion ever about a day lost, because of travelling to the West. I wonder how the flat earth fanatics would explain that.
@History and Timelines Actually it is a fake new from NASA. El Cano has never existed. Actually Spain and Phillipines are imaginary countries.
The same way they explain anything.
Derp, derp derp. Mah holy buk. Derp derp. CGI. Derp derp derp.
don't get me wrong, flat earth is a stupidly anti-intellectual crazy conspiracy theory defying basic observations, but that's like the one thing that remains consistent
@@notamoron2246The CGI in 1522 was realy impressive
Actually this would be among the easiest things for flat earthers to explain. Since it would work the same way on a flat earth as on a globe earth.
If you want to find any gotchas for the flat earthers, you have to find something that would be different on a flat earth and on a globe earth.
All talking of how cool Magallanes is... but no one speaks that Elcano was the true first man (alongside the crew) to circumnavegate the world
Anti-Spanish bias is huge especially in the English-speaking world.
In all the world I would say
@@scintillam_dei Elcano was a Basque.
@@kevinluby4783 basque are spaniards, so Elcano was spanish.
@@Tundrah648 Elcano was a Basque.
Great this type of topics should be covered more interesting to see how people of the past do like mapping w pace of land or discovering one thing new always good to look at past to understand the mordent society
One question: was the reason the dates were different not due to issues with timekeeping? Was it really the international date line?
@@scottanos9981 leap year.
"The value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises"
- Octavio Paz
"13 sailors get off the ship and go to buy food but they are unmasked"...this has a very different connotation in 2021!
One common misconception about Magellan's death is that they say that it was Lapu-Lapu that killed the man, but it was actually one of his warriors. Also, the first island they had spotted in the archipelago was the "Homonhon Island" in Samar region. They had named the archipelago as "Las Islas Filipinas" in honor of King Philip of Spain
Las Felipinas is Philippines in English. I understand some of the Spanish. But in our school (Philippines) They said Lapu Lapu killed Magellan during war.
@@acetvgamingyt4166 yeah that's what they usually wrote in textbooks, but the one that dealt the killing blow on Magellan was never named. Lapu-Lapu got the credit, because he's the leader of the tribe that defeated the Spaniards
Las Islas Filipinas = The Philippine Islands
Short term: Philippines
Origin: King Philip II of Spain
No one knows now who actually landed the killing blow on Magellan, I think it's unlikely to have been Lapu-Lapu personally.
I think Samar is in my huge realistic map of half of the world with America in the center, for Age of EMpires 2HD. Check it out if you want to be epic. I did it primarily to have the Aztec Empire fight the Incan in the proper context.
imagine the feeling of landing in a new land, and moving on before discovering a vast sea to the other side
The black covering the rest of the world really gives it the feeling the sailors had when they traveled to those places.
Makes you feel how anxious they would feel not knowing where they are, if they will reach land soon or die, etc etc. Very well done.💯
I’ve been into Limasawa Island before in 2018, and the island is full with crosses, rocks, cliffs, and beaches. It is truly remarkable. That the locals on that island that i’ve gone to are simply friendly.
"so you came from america?"
"yeah"
"and you helped catch the spanish expedition to the malacas?"
"yep"
"alr cool, btw that bread and fish will cost 10 reals"
"I don't have any money, but here, have theese fresh newly grown expensive plants that only grow in the malacas."
"..."
"..."
"guards!"
"aw fu-"
😂😂🤣
I mean I imagine how f** up they were after those 3 years traveling and being really hungry 50% of the time...
FACTS ABOUT SPANISH PHILIPPINES
Spanish Manila and Philippines was seen in the 19th century as a model of colonial governance that effectively put the interests of the original inhabitants of the islands before those of the colonial power even they were bankrupted several times in maintaining the Philippines. As John Crawfurd put it in its History of the Indian Archipelago, in all of Asia the "Philippines alone did improve in civilization, wealth, and populousness under the colonial rule" of a foreign power. John Bowring, Governor General of British Hong Kong from 1856 to 1860, wrote after his trip to Manila:
"Credit is certainly due to Spain for having bettered the condition of a people who, though comparatively highly civilized, yet being continually distracted by petty wars, had sunk into a disordered and uncultivated state.
The inhabitants of these beautiful Islands upon the whole, may well be considered to have lived as comfortably during the last hundred years, protected from all external enemies and governed by mild laws vis-a-vis those from any other tropical country under native or European sway, owing in some measure, to the frequently discussed peculiar (Spanish) circumstances which protect the interests of the natives."
In The Inhabitants of the Philippines, Frederick Henry Sawyer wrote:
"Until an inept bureaucracy was substituted for the old paternal rule, and the revenue quadrupled by increased taxation, the Filipinos were as happy a community as could be found in any colony. The population greatly multiplied; they lived in competence, if not in affluence; cultivation was extended, and the exports steadily increased. [...] Let us be just; what British, French, Portuguese or Dutch colony, populated by natives can compare with the Philippines as they were until what 1895?."
Asia's oldest and continue modern learning institution was University of Santo Tomas (Dominican, OP), est. 1611. Universidad De San Ignacio (Jesuit, now defunct when Pope suspended Jesuits for brief period of time) est. 1601. University of San Carlos, est. 1595.
The Augustinians opened a parochial school in Cebu in 1565. The Franciscans, took to the task of improving literacy in 1577, aside from the teaching of new industrial and agricultural techniques. The Jesuits followed in 1581, as well as the Dominicans in 1587, setting up a school around archipelago. The church and the school cooperated to ensure that Christian villages had schools for students to attend.
Schools for boys and for girls were then opened. Colegios were opened for boys, ostensibly the equivalent to present day senior high schools. The Universidad de San Ignacio, founded in Manila by the Jesuits in 1589 was the first colegio. Eventually, it was incorporated into the University of Santo Tomas, College of Medicine and Pharmacology following the suppression of the Jesuits. Girls had two types of schools - the beaterio, a school meant to prepare them for the convent, and another, meant to prepare them for secular womanhood.
The Spaniards are the ones who taught the Filipinos to worship the True God (Biblical God).
Jesus was Asian* Judea, Samaria is part of Continental Asia.
Christianity made the Filipinos to abandon pagan ways, polygamy, war freak attitude, infanticide and learn temperance, monogamy, resilience and more refined characteristics based from the teachings of Catholic Christianity.
Spaniards defeated and ends the warring Hindus, Buddhist, Animist and Islamic chiefdoms all over archipelago and united it into a single governing entity as Spanish East Indies under Spanish Crown.
The Spaniards are the ones who taught the Filipinos to eat sardines, made and eat pandesal bread during breakfast, drink coffee and chocolate, to wear modest dress because ancient Filipinos were almost half naked and to watch stage plays.
Spanish regime exploited Filipinos and its land resources, but in fairness it brought and taught more civilized way of life to the Filipino people that British, French, Portuguese, and Dutch implemented in their colonies in late 1900s. How successful Spanish are!?. By late 1900s, Philippines is the only majority Christian nation in Asia, 95% Catholics that practiced Hispanic culture, speaking Castillian Spanish as lingua franca long before Ethnic Tagalog dialect and English implemented in schools after Americans banned Spanish in 1901.
#HistoryOfFilipinas
#VivaIslasLasFilipinas
Asians by Blood, Spanish in Culture, Catholic Christianity by Religion
Now that's the real truth. Not all people are perfect, but Spain did really gave us a path to modernity. So many contributions from them. Mabuhay Pilipinas!!! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Its a shame that none of these quotes are stated in grade school/high school textbooks. DepEd must be filled with coños 🤔
See my video "A conquistador refutes the Metatron on Samurais VS Spaniards."
@@KrshnVisualizer Schools are for indoctrination, not wisdom.
Good info
Thanks!
Truly an epic journey! I circumnavigated the world once when I flew from Colorado Springs to Houston to San Francisco to Incheon to Hong Kong to London to Denver in a span of 3 months in 2010.
Every time I hear these stories it’s so hard to imagine. They only had paper maps and compasses. They had no idea what lied ahead if anything.
This is what I eagerly wait for. Good job
Your explanation misses one important point. They were not only trying to sail to the Moluccas going west but also to determine if the Moluccas were in the Portuguese or Spanish hemisphere as determined by the tordesillas counter meridian. They probably established that the Moluccas were on the Portuguese side and thus the western trade route was useless at least to those islands. So in fact the expedition was a failure. But of course many opportunities arise from failures.
No fue ningún fracaso, Carlos V sabe que están del lado portugués, pero se asegura Filipinas y se las vende a los portugueses que no están seguros que caigan de su lado. Hizo un gran negocio
Exactly
@@tombellum6815 I disagree that Carlos V knew where the Moluccas were. There was doubt, even after Magellan. That's why there was an escape clause in the Zaragoza treaty and that's why the line drawn at Zaragoza treaty contradicts Tordesillas when it should coincide.
I agree that the treaty of Zaragoza was a good deal for Spain but that happened because it decided to ignore the provisions from Tordesillas and colonize the Moluccas anyway (see the Laoísa expedition and later). The Philipines were not colonized by Carlos V but by Filipe II thus the name Philipines! That happened later and of course it was in contradiction with the Tordesillas and Zaragoza treaty. But by that time Portugal was also breaching the treaty in Brazil.
So all in all, sumarizing posterior events is a mistake.
The magellan expedition itself failed in its main goal, that is clear. That does not mean it did not accomplish several important actions. Some intended, such as finding the passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, some unintended.
You're wrong. What was really a huge failure was the fact that Portugal refused to finance the Magellan expedition.
@@josecabello5821 Why would they? They already got the spice trade....
Elcano never gets enough credit!
Watching this from Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. Great video!
Such a huge accomplishment for the Spanish crown and these brave sailors. Amazing video and great explanation.
without the Portuguese nobleman - Magellan, this expedition never happens to begin with. also , half of the crew consisted of Portuguese, French, Basque, Italian officers and seamen. this was more of a multinational endeavor, rather than strictly Spanish. it was another in a long list of foreign captains and sailors who helped the Spanish crown.
@@bconni2That is correct, y this time navigators and sailors were working for the Crown who believe in the project and the one who can pay them.
@@SergioRPerez true. but the Spanish in particular, had a tendency to employ many foreigners. were as the Portuguese on the other hand were more self reliant, using mostly their own to man their ships.
@@bconni2 That is correct but you don’t build an empire just with your own countrymen. I think the Spanish monarchy at that time had this concept very clear and it worked for them. Also, by that time the loyalty was more with the one who can pay.
Yet in life, it is the people who paid for it that get the glory and the profits in history. The Persian empire was very similar to the Spanish. I don't know everything but I will get ahold of the people who do.
Portugal and Spain...I'm proud to have this two bloods in my veins!
same blood with two dialects...
I think they are not that distant from each other, basically one folk divided by history and geography, same situation what happened with part of a Russian people, who today's known as liitle Russians and white Russians (ukrainians and belorussians).
Você é brasileiro?
The Empires would have you know that pride is a sin.
@Cultura Mundo Differnet DNA companies give contradicting results, so they're all scams.
Thank you for recognizing the inadvertent role played by the Malay slave Enrique de Malacca in the world's first circumnavigation. While Sebastian Elcano deserves full credit for his navigation and seamanship, Enrique's role as an interpreter was a major one for the expedition, whether the result was considered good or bad in the end.
And if Enrique hitched a ride back home from the Philippines in the first several months then he was the first person to circumnavigate the earth. We'll most likely never know if he did it.
very epic!
you should make a video like this about Marco Polo
Thank you I will make it too
@@GeoHistory hey can u make a video on my country Jamaica next or maybe the Latin American war of independence
LOVE FROM JA
@@GeoHistory Also you can discover to your western audience travels of Afanasij Nikitin to the middle Asia, near east and Ost Indias and back to Russia if you don't mind.
How far east did Magellan travel on his longest earlier trip? If he ever passed Cebu's longitude of approx. 124°E, then he'd have circumnavigated the world upon his arrival in Cebu from the other direction. Just not on one trip.
And likewise if he had any of the same sailors with him as he did on that trip to Malacca where he got that slave, then they would have achieved the goal just after Magellan died.
Magalhães was a sailor in the Portuguese armada to India before the circunnavigation trip. He did the most dificult sea voyage ever before the circunnavigation in the Portuguese armada to the spice islands. He was the 1st one to do the full circunnavigation because ot that. 1/2 of the journey was done in the Portuguese armada, the other 1/2 in the Spanish expedition...
@@luismarques9280 Still some distance between India and the Philippines. Not a full circumnavigation.
@@davidwuhrer6704 In the armada to India...he reached the islands of banda, same latitude of the Philipines 😉 For the Portuguese everything was India....he did a full circunavigation alright!
@@luismarques9280 I see. I'd say if he touched the same point from both sides of the world (while crossing the equator in between), that's a circumnavigation. I'm not sure if the same latitude is enough. Otherwise you might travel from the north pole to the south pole and claim to have circumnavigated the world.
At this point this narrator has probably gained an amazing amount of facts from his narration of several channels like this
In Puerto San Julián in Argentina is the monument to the first mass, which commemorates the first mass in Argentine territory and the first round the world, and in Chile is the monument to the first circumavement of the world in Punta Arenas
Fun fact: ten years before the expedition, Magellan travelled to the Phillipines, to the same spot he died at. So, Magellan was the first person to travel around the world. It just took a while.
0:12 " *1582 Around this time Portugal begins maritime explorations along the African Coast* "
Begins???
Around *1340-1345* , there were expeditions to the Canary Islands
In 1418 Madeira island was re-reached by Portuguese sailors
In 1425 Madeira island started to be colonized,
In 1434 Cape Bojador was crossed
In 1448, A feitoria was created in Arguim
In 1576 Luanda City in Angola was founded
etc..etc
Even New Found Land was probably knew by the Portuguese around 1582
So they have a replica ship in Punta Arenas, Chile that you can visit and go inside. It really put into perspective how cramped and small the ship is and shows the perseverance of the crew. You would not want to be stuck on that thing for 3 years, I can assure you.
Exceptionally well done, even better that it mentions that Henrique might have been the first, but that his voyage wasn't definitively completed.
there's a better video. this is too summarized.
That day of the week discrepancy is similar to the one that happens in "Around the World in 80 Days" Jules Verne's novel. In this case the reason why is that they travelled away from the Sun, which set them back by 4 minutes each degree they advanced towards the West, and one whole turn (360º) around the globe adds up to exactly 24 hours.
And it took almost half a Millennium for the Land of Fire and the Magellan Strait to be under the sovereignty of a westernized power, in the early 20th Century. That’s how remote the route was.
Can't imagine the courage and conviction necessary to set out on a trip like this
This really captures how bigger and stranger the world would’ve been back then. There was so much unknown about the Earth’s surface. They made incredibly long and perilous journeys with so much less technology than we have today. And it’s on that foundation, that a world so shrunken, interconnected and explored like our own today was able to come to be.
Yup, just like what I have learned from Readings in Philippine History. We still struggle to locate where did the first mass occured when Magellan went here in the Philippines but we recognized the Limasawa Island to be the first sight where the mass happened. Happy Quincentennial of Catholicism to our country! (1521-2021)
All of the heads of the white, "woke", leftwing people reading your comment just exploded!
Humonhon is where the first mass was held.
As a filipino i dont really wanna celebrate the start of slavery and racism in my country 😑
@@tekashiii ....As if that started with the arrival of Europeans.
@@MrJm323 its almost like magellan was the one to discover the philippines introducing its existence to spain 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Was at the place in Cebu, Philippines which he discovered and ultimately was killed. I'm kinda wondering if it's still there after the super typhoon
I live in cebu and it's still there
Magellans cross is still there.
It's still here
Concrete buildings can withstand a super typhoon even as strong as Haiyan. But blocks without finishing/cement will be wrecked for a few minutes.
The Brunswick Peninsula in Chile is still known today at the southernmost point in Mainland South America.
this is the coolest story i heard in a while
I served in the Air Force for 15 months on Guam and the local culture still lives up to Magellan's first title.
This should be a series. “Ambush Banquet” sounds like a good season 3 finale.
Elcano under the Spanish flag is the first man to circumnavigate the earth.
No, he won't be the interpreter would be the one who should be given credit with that.
@@patrickbueno3279 porque? Enrique no hizo nada para hacerlo.
1.En primer lugar, está por demostrar que realmente completara la vuelta, porque no consta que volviera de Filipinas a Malaca.
2.si llega a hacerlo, tendría que hacerlo antes de que Elcano llegue a Sanlúcar, lo que no parece sencillo en absoluto. No había una línea de ferrys de Cebú a Malaca.
3. De haberlo hecho, lo habría hecho sin querer, y en contra de su voluntad.
4. La aportación a la humanidad la realiza, sin ninguna duda, Elcano. Es el primero que prueba empíricamente que la tierra es redonda
@@tombellum6815 it's really hard communicate with each other and point out our point if we are not using a lingua franca that we can understand both.
@@patrickbueno3279 We don't really have any proof of that. It's also possible some of the sailors onboard the ships had been that far east before already, just like Magellan had.
@@Jotari and that's the problem, this notion that they are the first ones to circumnavigate first is very eurocentric view, that it limits who might have done it. I supported Enrique as the first because it's a place of his homeland and just really going back there.
Incredible story. It reminds me of one of Fernando Pessoa's most famous poems. He was Portuguese, but it certainly applies to all those brave men:
O salty sea, so much of whose salt
Is Portugal’s tears! All the mothers
Who had to weep for us to cross you!
All the sons who prayed in vain!
All the brides-to-be who never
Married for you to be ours, O sea!
Was it worth doing? Everything’s worth doing
If the soul of the doer isn’t small.
Whoever would go beyond the Cape
Must go beyond sorrow.
God placed danger and the abyss in the sea,
But he also made it heaven’s mirror.
For those saying Elcano was Basque... Yes, and Spanish. He was born in Guetaria, Guipuzcoa, in 1476. And
Guipuzca was part of Castilla's Crown since 1200, under King Alfonso VIII de Castilla. And Magallanes obtained Spanish nationality under emperor Carlos I
I am so happy I have just discovered this channel
People in the past were mentally stronger for sure. Such daring.
yeah,. they start an expedition into nothing but sea and have no idea where they are going. Imagine being at sea for 3 months , not seeing land , having no food, no way back , since the streams only go west. That could drive you insane.
@@Osterochsethey have an idea because they know the directions. Remember that they assume that the earth is round.
@@janjamesramos247 they have an idea of the general direction they are going, yes. But they have no idea if there is land, food, fresh water or freindly natives whereever they are going. It is super dangerous.
@@Osterochse i agree... maybe they thought that after crossing the the south america, they will easily find southeast asia but they were wrong.
@@janjamesramos247 as far as I know they weren t exactly sure how big earth is. So they might have expected to bump into another continent earlier or at the very least find more land they hadn t discovered yet. Even today we often underestimate the vastness of the pacific ocean since it is often depicted at the fringes of the world map
Ayy new video great way to end the year
Merry christmas and happy new year
Thank You ! You too !
Magellan's trip was quite the odyssey and it's tough to do it justice in 10 minutes, but Geohistory does a great job! For a deeper dive I'd recommend the book "Over the Edge of the World" by Laurence Bergreen.
I've bought and read that book. It got me interested in all maritime exploration pre-1900s. It's a great book and I've chosen to keep it rather than drop it in a library return box. I do that with all the books I read and decide not to keep.
A Filipino-Cebuano, the translator of Magellan during the expedition was the first man who circumnavigate the world. Not Elcano. The name was Enrique from Cebu.
Thank you for this video on Christmas, love from Australia
Great video. as always! Btw, the Charles V mentioned here was also Charles I at the same time
He’s mainly known as Charles V outside Spain
Emperor Carlos said: "Hablo latín con Dios, español con las tropas, francés con las damas, italiano con los músicos, alemán con los lacayos e inglés con mis caballos y perros".
I SPEAK LATIN WITH GOD, SPANISH WITH THE TROOPS, FRENCH WITH THE LADIES, ITALIAN WITH THE MUSICIANS, GERMAN WITH MY GOONS AND ENGLISH WITH MY HORSES AND DOGS."
@@scintillam_dei Did he also day: "and I speak English in TH-cam comments?" Or that's just you?
@@jmiquelmb Yo hablo español no solamente el idioma de perros. :-)
I speak Spanish not just the language of dogs. :-)
@@jmiquelmb I hit a nerve, so here's more because history offends you, and I enjoy seeing anti-Spanish pride trampled.
The British Empire wasn't the biggest. Only hypocrites count oceans of sand but not oceans. The Spanish Emperor monopolized most oceans in the universe during the Iberian Union when England was irrelevant.
And France. And Netherlands.
But the Brits had to share every single ocean with the French and others! LOL! Hail Iberia! Iberia ruled more waves! And since earth is more water than land, SPAIN WINS! See the video "Spanish discovery of Hawaii 1555" Brits were just followers.
I knew this story since I was a child since I originally came from the Philippines and they teach about Magellan's fight with Lapulapu and Lapulapu killing Magellan and becoming the first hero in the Philippines. And ever since then, I kept researching this story more and finding out that Magellan is actually Portuguese not Spanish, Humabon being the reason why Magellan and Lapulapu fought in the first place and the hardship of the expedition. But this is the first time I find out that the Spanish and Portuguese were at odds with each other and the Spanish trying to evade the Portuguese. All this time, I thought they were allied with each other since Magellan himself is a Portuguese participating in an expedition led by Spain.
Fernão de Magalhães (name in portuguese) was basically disowned by the portuguese empire, for short, so that's why he's used a Spanish translation of his name, Magalhães -> Magellan. I'm portuguese myself and always see people bitching about how he was Magalhães not Magellan but since it was Spain that believed in his voyage, i don't see a problem in Magellan being the name recorded in history.
@@migbossChannel In Spanish his name is Magallanes
Actually Datu Lapu Lapu didn't killed Magellan, it was his men did to kill Ferdinand Magellan and then other Spaniards leave
@@migbossChannel You might be the first honourable Portuguese I've ever seen.
@@paranodrum9171 The Philippines honors him. There's even a railway station named after him in Spanish. Magallanes station. We pronounce ll the old Spanish way, using both the letters l and y, so it's Magalyanes, not Magayanes.
According to family tradition on my mom side (Filipino), the chief who kill Magellan is our ancestor.
Why d they kill him?
Dude, no cool. I hope you don’t kill people like your ancestor, it’s pretty rude
They deserve it, lmao
@@RoScFan I don’t fucking know. Give me a time machine and i’ll go find out.
Lapu-Lapu didn't killed Magellan, I believe he was shot with an arrow with poison
Great video! Loved it. The best short telling of Magellan's expedition that I have heard yet. Thanks
Of Magellan and Elcano
I love the anecdote about the log book being off by a day, of course because by going around the world westwards, they had slowly “unset the sun” one time over the three year journey :)
Reverse Phileas Fogg
No me puedo imaginar la sensacion de viajar en un barco por meses en el oceano, con el peligro que una tormenta lo destruya, que te ataquen piratas, cagar en el barco, no bañarte y comer un numero limitado de provisiones para llegar a tierra a lugares hostiles con peligro de morir . . .
Fernão de Magalhães agradece-lhe o vídeo. Abraços de Portugal 🇵🇹
Hey there! I am from Tierra del Fuego or the Land of Fire, amazing video!
If you are interested in the story, I can recommend Stefan Zweig's book "Magellan" on the subject. He is a great storyteller and goes alot more in-depth. Its definitely a story that deserves to be told in full
The mutiny for example was the result of tension that had been brewing for a long time between Magellan and the spanish captains appointed by the king. It reads out like a movie
Oh and the expedition actually attempted to prove that the spice islands were in the Spanish part. The calculations were done by a world famous astronomer at the time (but it turned out they were all wrong lol).
There are alot more details in the book about the killing of natives on the island of thieves, how the slave betrayed them etc etc
This is one of the best documentaries I ever watched. Even his voice is giving more attractive to this video. 😊😊
Geo history uploaded . Christmas has come early.
Wow !!.. I remember this voyage studying at Primary School. Thinking,
these people sailed towards a crazy discovery; all the sacrifice, suffering they endured.
School: we are the best place to learn!
Geo history: hold my beer
No "Hold my animated globe"
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen!
I wish people would stop buying this voice guy. What makes videos special is that people who are actually ecstatic to talk about a topic, speak about it. Not just they have a baritone voice and deliver every video in exactly the same tone. Sorry if im being so direct
I like how back in the 16th century, sailors already knew that sailing west didn't mean they would fall off the flat earth
flat earth never was so widespread, even in the darkest part of the Middle Age, since the Greeks it was known to be round, but not how big it was
@@matacabrones4317 even then the guy who proved it was round, Eratosthenes of Alexandria, calculated within a pretty decent margin of error how big it was (essentially, once you know it's curved, you can get an idea of *how* curved it is because math, Carl Sagan famously replicated the experiment a few years ago)
Columbus must have known about this and either bluffed to convince the Spanish crown to fund him or, more likely imo since he did seem genuinely convinced he had made it to Asia, he just kind of sucked at math and ended up the luckiest man on earth.
Like, if you know how far east Asia is which they did, and how far away west it is which they had a rough ballpark for, you eventually put two and two together and figure out that Cuba is not in fact Japan. Which is why maps barely a decade after Columbus died recognized it was in fact a completely new continent.
@@Matthy63if I remember right it wasn't that Columbus believe the earth was smaller, he believed that asia was larger and thus the ocean was smaller
Man this was an odyssey indeed.
Nice work! I always wondering how the black cloud is made, with Unity? The May 1 Massacre and Escape through Brunei are omitted (the reason why they spend six months from Phillipine to Spice Islands), but that is reasonable as the original journal was not detailed on that part of journey.
Glad my peole destroyed the Brunei Empire which is why it is so tiny today, Brunei.
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Great animation and explanation. I love the black fog that show undiscovered land by European sailors. I really enjoy watching videos in this channel. Thank you for mentioning Henrique de Malacca. I don't know if he is well-known in other countries, but as someone from maritime South-east Asia, I really appreciate you mentioning him.
Very interesting! Huge thanks.
Spain, first global empire. 🇪🇸🤝🇩🇴
As written in the Book of Revelation...
Nah man. Portuguese empire was the first global empire long before spain
4:44 PACIFIC OCEAN IN NORWEGIAN IS STILLEHAVET HVICH MEANS SILLENT OCEAN
AND FUN FACT MADELA DIED 24th DECEMBER 1521 SO ON FRIDAY HE HAS BEEN DEAD FOR 500 YEARS
Wow really?
Who is madela, do you mean Mandela?
And did you know that in both Portuguese and Spanish Pacific Ocean are written nearly the same literally meaning Pacific Ocean?
Portuguese- Oceano Pacífico
Spanish- Océano Pacífico
There is basically nothing different at all.
Madela? Or Magellan?
I will mark this mourning date.
Hvorfor roper du?
When I was reading my "(Anonymous) History" book, I read the part when the commander of the San Antonio,Juan de Cartagena, planned a desertion from Magellan's fleet, Magellan left him in an unnamed island near Port San Julian with a priest. And I sometimes wonder that which island was he left on?
christmas came early when geo history posted!
I've always thought Magellan circumnavigated the globe, turns out he died in the attempt, never completing the objective.
That’s why in Spain it’s known as the Magallanes-Elcano expedition
Elcano is the one that did, not Magellan actually but he takes the fame... Elcano's fame.
The guy that lead a army to killed him (Lapu Lapu) We built a statue and named a fish after him
I'm Filipino
He found the strait that led to the pacific ocean. He is credited with this discovery.
So basically spain discovered everything because Portugal always said no to their sailors lol
Lesson to learn here: don't say no to new business ideas 💡
Right. And then the left-liberals are now in vogue to hate the conquistadors, Columbus and other discoverers and colonists. They forget that if it were not for colonialism, 2/3 of the world would run bare-handed and would not have
@@confederaterussian5945 FR LOL, many people may have shit living conditions but it's still better than trival conditions
saying that "basically spain discovered everything" is the equivalent of saying that "basically the US won the space race".
wildly accepted, but ignoring that Portugal, like the soviet union, archieved lots of great conquests that got covered by the columbus and Magelan and the moon landing respectively.
@@confederaterussian5945 shut up spammer
Magallanes se nacionalizó español antes de salir, le fue impuesta esa condición. Y patagones NO viene de que los nativos sean altos si no que usaban pieles de gauanaco para cubrirse los pies por lo que dejaban un gran huella en la nieve como si fuesen gigantes. El origen del nombre patagones es que los expedicionarios españoles llamaron así a los nativos inspirados en un personaje novelesco de la época, un gigante llamado Patagón.
What you mean nationalised, there was no such thing as nationalities back in the 15th century, that's a post-18th century concept...
@@userytx you are right, but he actually meant that Magallanes had to swear an oath to serve the Spanish Crown and King Carlos I, granting that the equivalent of what we’d call “citizenship” today (loyalty to the Kingdom). So yeah, in a way he was.
@@Khaliszt But even then the spanish show little regard to him. Not surprising though…
I love how almost everyone treat Magellan as a hero. In our contry, he is treated as a villain while lapu-lapu is a hero. Even though its not his fault entirely, his expedition starts the 300 year of spanish occupancy.
Not a single soul thinks that Magallanes was a hero, he was an explorer, not a hero
It's like with Columbus. Most educated people know he was an asshole and did some awful things but he still did all the things in the video which is always worth talking about.
this dude is so underrated for his quality of videos and overrated for gaps between the videos
Wish this is how this was taught in my History class 20 years ago. So beautifully comprehensive. I really appreciate how the map is left dark until its explored.
Magellan "this sea is so peaceful... let's call this Pacific Ocean 😎"
god, love that plottwist in the end
I am really impressed how they managed to find their way even through the unknown while we struggle to find our way with GPS...
And the spices they brought back were valuable enough to pay for the trip many times!
Really great video. I have recently started reading Shogun by James Clavell, and it's set in 1600 CE. Right after these events. Was really curious to see who is the Magellan in Cape of Magellan, and lo, here's a neat video describing things.
Okay genius, finish the book now.