Magellan was born in 1480; he was the son of Portuguese nobility and a student of cartography and astronomy. He pursued his dream to circumnavigate the world, but he did not survive through the whole voyage. Magellan was killed in a battle with the local villagers on April approximately one year before the Victoria ship completely circumnavigated the globe. Near the end of his lifetime, his men could have come to the rescue, but they all chose not to. Magellan treated his dutiful men ferociously; sacrificed numerous lives for egotistical reasons, and he did not treat his dedicated men with the proper respect. Accordingly, Magellan is not worth defending because his behaviors were inhumane.
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During the voyage, Magellan did not feed his men properly although the men are doing all the work for him. In Document D; a journal written in 1520 by Antonio Pigafetta stated that “ where we remained twenty-days without taking in provisions or other refreshments, and we only ate old biscuits reduced to powder, and full of grubs, and stinking from the dirt the rats had made on it when eating, and we drank yellow and stinking..” Magellan feared that the fleet’s supplies would not be enough; he put his men on reduced rations. This article from in Document D gives examples of what the crewmembers ate; the food they ate were nearly as bad as the food provided to the slaves. Furthermore, due to the lack of nutrition and harsh weather, “ twenty-five or thirty fell ill of sicknesses, both in the arms and legs..” The illnesses of Magellan’s men are also caused by the mistreatment that Magellan offered to his men since the men did not get enough vitamin C to satisfy their basic needs as proven in a text from Document D that states, “we very hard on account of the sun, rain, and wind.” As most people know today, the sunlight is crucial to humans because it provides the necessary vitamin C that humans need. Thus, a man who would not even provide a costless essential of life to his loyal crew members; he should not be honored as a