--- title: Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there», a lesson of the history course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for Spain, set off west with five ships and abo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / Explorers: Magellan around the world,… # Explorers: Magellan around the world, and the people already there Lesson 27 of the history course of Mova's primary school: 17 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/0/) — In 1519 Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese sailor working for Spain, set off west with five ships and about 270 men to reach the Spice Islands of Asia. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/1/) — He found a stormy passage at the tip of South America and came out onto an ocean so calm that he named it the Pacific, meaning peaceful, never guessing it was the biggest ocean on Earth. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/2/) — Months later, starving and sick, the crew reached the Philippines, where Magellan was killed fighting the local leader Lapulapu, so Magellan himself never sailed all the way round. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/3/) — In 1522 one battered ship, the Victoria, came home with 18 men, and they found their diaries were one day behind, like a lap of a race where you lose a sunrise by running the same way the Sun goes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/4/) — Everywhere these explorers went, people already lived, with names for every river and mountain, so the word discovered tells only the Europeans' side. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/6/) — Magellan found a stormy passage at the tip of South America, now called the Strait of Magellan, and entered an ocean he named the Pacific, meaning peaceful. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/7/) — Crossing the Pacific took months; sailors ate sawdust and leather, and many died of scurvy, an illness caused by a lack of fresh fruit and vegetables. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/8/) — Later sailors learned that lemons and limes prevent scurvy, because they contain vitamin C. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/9/) — In 1521 Magellan was killed in the Philippines in a battle with Lapulapu, who defended his island and is now a national hero there. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/10/) — In 1522 only one ship, the Victoria, with 18 men led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, returned to Spain after the first voyage around the world; so few men could hardly handle a ship built for a much bigger crew. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/11/) — The voyage proved that ships could sail all the way around the Earth, and that the Earth was bigger than people had thought. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/12/) — When the Victoria returned, the crew's diaries were one day behind the calendar, because sailing west around the world they had seen one sunrise fewer. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/13/) — Spanish soldiers called conquistadors conquered huge lands in the Americas looking for gold, and native peoples lost their land and freedom. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/14/) — Saying Europeans discovered a land forgets the people who had lived there for thousands of years. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/15/) — John Cabot reached Newfoundland in 1497 and Jacques Cartier sailed up the St Lawrence River in the 1530s, both looking for a northern passage to Asia. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/16/) — The name Canada comes from kanata, an Iroquoian word for village that Cartier heard. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/27-explorers-magellan-around-the-world-and-the-people-already-there/17/) — Old maps had sea monsters and blank spaces where mapmakers did not know what was there, and within about a hundred years European maps showed fairly accurate coastlines. - ← previous: [Explorers: around Africa and Columbus](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/26-explorers-around-africa-and-columbus/) - next →: [Explorers: Cook and the Pacific](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/28-explorers-cook-and-the-pacific/) - ↑ back to [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/)