HIST 100: AGE OF EXPLORATION
INTRODUCTION
● Magellan’s Expedition-
lasted for 2 years, 11
months
● Animism- worshipping
spirits, animals, objects
(paganism)
● Southern Philippines-
already has a sultanate to
propagate Islam)
● Ancient Silk Road- trade of
wool, salt, olive oil
(EUROPE) for silk, spices,
porcelain, tea, and
gunpowder (CHINA)
● China has a surplus supply
of silk (delivers through a
caravan)- to central Asia,
Persia (Iran), Turkey,
India, and back to southern
China
● Salt-salario or form of
money back in the day used
to pay Roman Soldiers;
makes their food palatable
● Java, Indonesia- supplier
of spices
● Traders- Chinese
MUSLIM TURKS
● Islam founded in Saudi
Arabia
● AD 1095- Jerusalem became a
Muslim territory
● Crusade (Middle Ages)-
mission to reclaim the holy
land
● The emergence of the Muslim
Turks in the central part
of Asia came the end of the
Silk Road
● They raided the Chinese
Merchants
● Chinese explored the
southern part of China
(Southeast Asia) after the
Silk Road
● Gold was found in the
Philippines
● Mindoro was once called Ma-
i (Land of Gold)
● Filipinos traded gold with
porcelain products
PORTUGAL
● They believed that the
earth was flat
● Prince Henry the Navigator-
a Portuguese prince, took
the risk and started an
exploration. Sailed from
Portugal to India, then to
the Moluccas
● Portugal knew the route to
India first
● Magellan, Portuguese Navy-
first people to bring
Blacks to Europe as slaves
● Magellan arrived at
Malacca, won, and was able
to acquire 1 Malay slave
(named him “Enrique”, in
Portuguese “Henry)
● Magellan was hit on his
left knee by an arrow at
the battle in North Africa
(which made him retire from
being a navy)
● Magellan went to King
Manuel I and offered his
proposal to sail to the
Moluccas, but the king
didn’t trust his plan
(which made him renounce
his Portuguese citizenship)
● Magellan went to Spain
(married María Caldera
Beatriz Barbosa)
SPAIN
● Christopher Columbus-
offered his service to find
a way to go to India
● Caribbean- first
destination (fake India)
● Treaty of Tordesillas-
divided the world into two
(demarcation line)
● East - Portuguese
● West - Spain
● The United Kingdom also
started its own exploration
in Eastern America
● France also colonized
Canada
● King Charles I- the king
whom Magellan proposed his
plan to, and accepted the
risk
● Victoria, San Antonio,
Trinidad, Concepcion, and
Santiago- Ships financed
● 265 men, Magellan was the
Captain-General
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● Juan Sebastian Elcano- one

of the crew
● Antonia Pigafeta- an
Italian man appointed by
the king to write
everything he sees
● August 10, 1519- started
the expedition from Port
Seville
● Santiago was wrecked, some
men died due to starvation
● Magellan killed the rebels
within the crew
● 1 ship went back to Spain
● 1520- reached the Pacific
Ocean, Mar Pacifico; was
named because when they
went there it was calm
● 1521- Reached the
Philippines
● March 16, 1521- Magellan
sighted the island of Samar
and named it “St. Lazarus”
● Enrique became the
interpreter of the natives
and Magellan
● April 27, 1521- Magellan
was killed by Lapu-Lapu
● Lead by Juan Sebastion
Elcano, they continued
sailing to the Moluccas
● Concepcion was burned along
Bohol coast
● Trinidad and Victoria was
the only 2 left and
separated ways
● Trinidad was caught by the
Portuguese
● Antonio and Juan Sebastian
survived on the Victoria
ship
● Pigafeta studied Visayas
● Hence, after the entire
stay, Antonia Pigafetta’s
readings were made into a
book (1969), namely, the
First Voyage Around the
World