Essay About Juan Sebastian Elcano And Higher Class People

Report on Juan Sebastian Elcano
Essay title: Report on Juan Sebastian Elcano
Juan Sebastian Elcano was born in Guetaria, Spain in 1476. He was a
navigator. Trying to find an excuse from the King (Charles the fifth, Holy
Roman Emperor), he signs on as a lower class general to Ferdinand
Magellans expedition to sail around the world. He and five other ships
sailed to find another faster way from Spain’s western side. On the way
there the commander of the expedition died in the Philippines in April 1521,
due to that Juan Sebastian Elcano to over of the expedition and started to
sail.
During that time he was half way done and almost all of the food was
gone, they lowered the amount that everyone would get and because of that
people started to die out of starvation but the higher class people got more t
hen everyone else to make sure the will stay health and alive to keep the
voyage alive. Out of about 265 some odd people only 235 was alive that
time. Since more people started dieing everyone would get more food
,because there was a lot less people alive.
Out of the five ships only one was still sailing and it was the Victoria the
ship that Juans was on. There was no more food left and no one knew what
to do,so they started to eat material mostly leather