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During the Age of Exploration, Europeans craved for spices which came from Asia, one man, five ships, and his crew of 270 men explored the Atlantic to try and find a quicker way. That said man was Ferdinand Magellan, he was the first person to circumnavigate the globe hoping to find a river or strait that cut through the Americas. After the exploration, only eighteen men remained. Magellan wasn’t worth defending because he put his crew’s lives in danger, was very cruel to the three other captains on the other ships, and lost sight of his actual mission. My first reason why I don’t believe Magellan wasn’t worth defending is how cruel he was to his crew. During a mutiny, Magellan stopped the voyage to kill Luis Mendoza, order Gaspar de Quesada to be decapitated and killed and abandoned Cartagena on an island. …show more content…

“...Captain-Major went to the said three ships… and there the captain of one of them was killed… [Magellan] ordered Gaspar de Quesada to be decapitated and quartered; he was the captain of one of the ships and was one of those who have mutinied’ (Document B). This is why Magellan wasn’t worth defending because he was extremely cruel while leaving men fearing for their lives that he would’ve also killed them as well. My next reason why I don’t believe Magellan wasn’t worth defending was him losing sight of his mission. Magellan traveled as far as the Philippines to get more spices as well as other luxuries but as soon as he went into the islands, he only wanted to convert the native people to Christianity. He threatened to burn down their villages and slaughter them if they didn’t want to convert. This led to a bloody

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