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10 Famous Explorers Whose Discoveries Connected the World
En route, one ship became disabled and ... While in the service of Spain, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan led the first European voyage of discovery to circumnavigate the globe.
How Europe’s hunger for rare spices sent Magellan to a painful death
Aboard Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of 1519 to 1522 ... been commissioned by the Spanish crown to go in search of a new route ...