goal‚ still succeed? Ferdinand Magellan was born in Portugal and moved to Spain when he was older. He studied mapmaking and astronomy and he was also an explorer. He sailed to East Africa and Malaysia. In his times many people didn’t think that the world is round or that you can sail around the world. Magellan challenged this and set out on a journey to circumnavigate the globe despite people’s beliefs. The Spaniards funded his long trip. Though some might argue that Magellan was a lunatic with god
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Figures of the Renaissance Ferdinand Magellan Ferdinand Magellan was a leader of the Renaissance and a benefactor to modern science. The results of his voyage around the globe were such that the average person living during the Renaissance re-thought their paradigms of the world surrounding them‚ even know most scholars and other educated types knew that in fact‚ the world was round in shape. Ferdinand‚ however‚ proved it. Thus he lays claim to having circumnavigated the first voyage around
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Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer born in Northern Portugal in 1492. His parents ‚ were very wealthy and powerful and members of the portuguese nobility but died when he was only 10 years old. Before he became an explorer Magellan was first a soldier. During a Battle Magellan lost an eye after being shot in it and was injured and lost his leg‚ the wooden leg given to him didn’t fit properly causing him to walk with a limp. He sailed for his native Portugal‚ but a dispute with the
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to northern North America hundreds of years earlier. However‚ Columbus is important because his explorations made Europeans much more aware of the New World and helped to encourage more exploration of North and South America in the 1500s. Ferdinand Magellan and his discovery of the Philippines FERNÃO Magalhaes was born in Portugal around 1480‚ the son of the mayor of his native town. His interest in the nautical sciences started when he studied in the Court of Portugal. These studies filled
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This spread European ideals to other countries and this was the beginning of European type civilizations in America. Although there were many explorers in the Age of Discovery‚ the three most important explorers were Christopher Columbus‚ Ferdinand Magellan and Bartholomeu Dias. Christopher Columbus was one of the most important explorers in the Age of Discovery. He was born in Italy and he made many voyages all around the world as a young man. Columbus had a goal which was to sail to India
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the globe performed by Portuguese native Ferdinand Magellan‚ people might still believe that the world is flat. Magellan is very much responsible for a good part of what we know about the world we live in. First Circumnavigation of the Globe‚ begun in 1519‚ was an attempt to prove that the Moluccas were actually property of Spain. Finding a route between the Moluccas and Spanish Peru would be argument enough for ownership of the islands. Ferdinand Magellan set out on this voyage with five ships‚
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Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on June 15th around noon in Sarajevo‚ Bosnia. The alleged assassins have been identified as a Siberian terrorist organization‚ The Blackhand. Franz Ferdinand‚ the Archduke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire‚ and his pregnant wife were on their way to have Ferdinand recite a speech and meet with the mayor of Sarajevo. He was there on behalf of Austria-Hungary as he wanted Bosnia to follow Austria-Hungary. The Blackhand had executed a poor attempt to kill him during Ferdinand’s
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1.The history of automobile The first working steam-powered vehicle was probably designed by Ferdinand Verbiest‚ a Flemish member of a Jesuit mission in China around 1672. It was a 65 cm-long scale-model toy for the Chinese Emperor‚ that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. It is not known if Verbiest’s model was ever built. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot is widely credited with building the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile in about 1769; he created a steam-powered tricycle.
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leading up to World War l‚ but it wasn’t until June 28‚ 1914 the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand triggered World War l. His assassination took place in Sarajevo‚ leading Austria to declare war against Serbia. Austria declaring war to Serbia caused Serbia’s allies to declare war on each other‚ for example France‚ Russia‚ and United Kingdom. From all this chaos World War I began. Franz Ferdinand‚ eldest son of Carl Ludwig‚ the brother of Emperor Franz Josef‚ was born in 1863. He joined the
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There are many parts to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: the Archduke himself‚ his assassins‚ why they did it‚ and how they did it. All of these are equally important to the overall event‚ which in turn is important to‚ not only the world‚ but the United States as well. First up is the Archduke‚ one Franz Ferdinand. He was born on December 18‚ 1863‚ in Graz‚ Austria to Archduke Karl Ludwig. He was also the nephew of the Austro-Hungarian emperor of the time‚ Franz Joseph. The Archduke
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