We all know Ferdinand Magellan as the leader of the first voyage to circumnavigate the globe, but that’s not the only fascinating aspect of the famed Portuguese explorer’s journey. Launched in 1519, Magellan’s odyssey lasted three long years, claimed the lives of hundreds of people and forever changed Europe’s understanding of world geography. Nearly five centuries after Magellan’s fleet first left Europe, explore 10 little-known facts about one of naval history’s most legendary and deadly voyages.
<span>Both Jews and Arabs considered it to be a holy city as dictated by their religious scriptures.</span>
The main way in which the motives of the Virginia colonists differed form those of the separatists who settled on Plymouth is that the Virginia colonists primarily wanted to settle and farm in order to make money, while those who settled on Plymouth primarily wanted to escape religious persecution in England.
