i know many people say it was Magellan, but my history teacher said it was someone who they forced onto a boat and made him sail?
does anyone know his name
2007-09-05 12:10:48 · 8 answers · asked by j l 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Did Magellan get home safely?
No, for he was killed in a fight with islanders in the Philippines.
Although he had masterminded the first expedition to sail around the world, he did not complete the voyage himself.
In fact, it is rumoured, the first person to sail around the world was a Malaysian, who had travelled back to Europe with Magellan many years earlier.
Later, he accompanied Magellan as an interpreter on the circumnavigation.
2007-09-05 12:20:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your history teacher is a football coach, isn't he?
In any case, the answer to the question is not so much historical as semantic. It depends on what you mean by "sail around the world."
Magellan was the first to "sail around the world during his lifetime," even though he was killed in the Philippines in the middle of his attempt at a single round-the-world trip. He had been to the Philippines before from the other direction, so in that sense he went around the world from the Philippines to the Phillipines over a period of many years.
If, on the other hand, you mean "sail around the world in a single purposeful voyage," then the answer would be those of Magellan's crewmen who completed the trip Magellan started but did not finish. They left Europe, went around the world, and returned to Europe in one continuous trip.
2007-09-05 13:42:28 · answer #2 · answered by greyguy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Juan Sebastian Elcano, a Basque, and the remaining crew of Victoria (17 crew men) where the first people to circumnavigate the world. They left Spain with Ferdinand Magellan on August 10, 1519 and arrived back in Spain September 6, 1522
2007-09-05 15:03:14 · answer #3 · answered by AKDAKD 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The survivors of Magellan's circumnavigation. Of the 237 men who set out on five ships to circumnavigate the earth, only 18 completed the circumnavigation of the globe and managed to return to Spain in 1522. They were led by the Basque navigator Juan Sebastián Elcano, who took over command of the expedition after Magellan's death
2016-03-18 00:36:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Magellan was the first. Joshua Slocum was the first to sail around the world solo.
Perhaps your teacher was talkng about Slocum.
http://www.nmm.ac.uk/server/show/conWebDoc.142
http://www.joshuaslocumsocietyintl.org/
2007-09-05 12:28:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
akdakd gets it right........and there was a Malaysian servant aboard the expedition who had arrived in Spain years before, who when he got back to Malaya had sailed around the world.....but as was said, first around in a continuous voyage is Elcano and his crew
2007-09-06 01:58:41 · answer #6 · answered by yankee_sailor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enrique of Malacca--
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/040223/23magellan.htm
2013-10-24 16:27:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ferdinand Magellan's slave?
2007-09-05 12:14:00 · answer #8 · answered by Karisa B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you history teacher is a fool.
2007-09-05 12:14:53 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋