what did ferdinand magellan discover?

Question

could he read and write, if more what else?
what were his accomplishments
peursaveriance?
successions?- anything named after him?

ANSWER BY: 9/16/07

Answer 1

Magellan had Straights of Magellan named after him

He named Pacific Ocean ( Pacific for peacefull .. lucky for him there were no storms when he crossed it)

The only thing he proved was that you can circumnavigate the globe

Answer 2

Along with what everyone else has stated, he was the first to lead a ship across the globe, as he found an eastern route to reach the Indies. This was huge because he proved that the world is round, and not flat.

Answer 3

He found his way to the east via the straits that were named after him and pioneered a sea route to the Indies that held good until the Cape Horn route was discovered in about 1616.

Answer 4

hi Magellan became the 1st eu to circulate into the Pacific from the eponymous Strait of Magellan, which he got here across. He became additionally the 1st eu to realize the archipelago of what's now ordinary because of the fact the Philippines (March sixteen, 1521), which became unknown to the western international in the previous his landing. Arab investors had conventional commerce in the archipelago centuries in the previous so he merely got here across it for europe, it became already ordinary to the arab international long in the previous his circulate to !