What you Missed in the Age of Discovery - Ferdinand Magellan

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1494. Spain and Portugal are both really into this new business of sailing the seas and owning everything you touch, but they have a problem. What if the other country sails the seas and touches the stuff that they own? That would be bad! So they cut the world in half. Spain owns this half of the Earth, and Portugal owns this half of the Earth. Spain gets to colonize the New World and make all the money buying slaves and selling sugar and chocolate and silver. Portugal gets to control who can sail around Africa, which means they get to make all the money trading slaves and spices.
But one day, an enterprising man by the name of Ferdinand Magellan arrives in the Spanish King’s court. He says “Your majesty, what if I told you the islands where Portugal gets its spices are actually on your half of the Earth? And what if I told you, you didn’t have to sail around Africa to get there? I’m like 90% sure we can wiggle underneath South America, and if we do, that’s your ticket to the untold riches of the spice trade. But it will take a captain of unassailable courage. My name is Ferdinand Magellan! I had a place in the conquest of Malacca, I served in the court of the Sultan of Ternate, I took a lance to the knee in Morocco. If you’ll have me, I am prepared to embark on the adventure of an age, to see for the first time with European eyes, ancient and diverse cultures and convert them to Catholicism. I am prepared to attempt what no man has ever dreamed before. Soon will I meet the men who shall be my brothers at sea, and I will be the first to circle the world!
[cue cut anime opening]

[@JackRackam]

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[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Hey Jack! Love your content 😊😊

[@JackRackam]

@@danielsantiagourtado3430 Thanks man!

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

​@@JackRackamNp! You're awesome

[@brokenbridge6316]

Funny video as always Jack. Hope it's not too long before the sequel to this video comes out.

[@johnmanno2052]

Mr Jack, I laughed and laughed at all the gay sailor references, especially that disco party. But in all seriousness, since I really enjoy and trust your scholarship, do we have records of homosexuality in Magellan's flotilla? Personally, I've always thought Ferdinand was stark, raving mad. But I'm much more curious about his unfortunate crew

[@spore1176]

I’m a bit disappointed this video wasn’t sponsored by MagellanTV

[@JackRackam]

Would have been perfect, right?

[@eastsidereviews727]

Yeah, bro slippin.

[@DA_Doog]

@@JackRackamyou missed a grand opportunity Matey

[@JJJBunney001]

Yeah it would have been good but you guys realise that content creators don't get to choose sponsors right?

[@spore1176]

@@JJJBunney001 I know it’s a joke

[@IC3XR]

The sheer balls of steel these men had to just sail off into an unknown abyss and hope you brought enough supplies, tho 💀

[@BernasLL]

More like hope you brought enough to trade with uncontacted people. People really valued trading ships where there were none.

[@abthedragon4921]

A lot of people complain about modern road trips being a headache, I can't even imagine how hard it was for the crews of these ships to keep themselves from going insane.

[@mercerholt8299]

Booze lots and lots of booze

[@brook_angel]

Tbf Not a road trip if it's not on a road

[@carlosandredebrumdealmeida1889]

Booze and stabbing people who the tripulation hated.

[@BenersantheBread]

@@mercerholt8299 Unfortunately not even that. Sailors were rationed some drink yes, but not enough to get drunk off of. It was more to distract from the awful taste of the stale water and the torture device disguised as food called hardtack

[@giladpellaeon1691]

The ones who went insane were entertainment for those who hadn't yet. Though seriously it was why discipline was so brutally maintained.

[@qwaz67]

Portugal: PAPIE POPE, SPAIN IS TOUCHING MY SIDE OF THE WORLD!

[@fenrir4446]

The dutch and english where already doing it

[@alifkazeryu8228]

@@fenrir4446 Dutch and English isn't a GUD BOI catholic like Portugese is. though my timeline is kinda janky since I don't remember exactly when those 2 get away from the pope and when those 2 get touchy with Spain side of the world

[@fenrir4446]

@@alifkazeryu8228 the english where already proto the dutch as well

[@thomasrinschler6783]

@@fenrir4446 Not in 1519. In fact, the Netherlands were actually owned by Spain at that point. And other than visiting Newfoundland and environs, the English really didn't head that far out until the reign of Elizabeth I in the second half of that century.

[@fenrir4446]

@@thomasrinschler6783 where they not in a 80 years war already?

[@Eantrin]

He sailed due west to the Philipine Islands Magellan was pleased as the Natives drew near But then someone shouted "I think they're attacking!" Magellan said "What?" And got hit by a spear!

[@nathanseper8738]

Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, farewell, Magellan! You almost made it! It's really not fair! Whoopi-ti-yi-yo, oh, ghost of Magellan The East Indies Islands were right over there!

[@TankFerretPresents]

Virgin Elder Scrolls guard takes arrow to knee and days of adventure are over. Chad Magellan takes lance to knee and the adventure just begins...

[@lorysafernandez8666]

Did anyone else fall over laughing upon hearing delicate voice of Magellan’s fairy godmother….. truly the voice of an angel😂

[@CorvoFG]

She reminded me of Brian’s mother.

[@recane999]

I normally never watch commercials on youtube videos but Jack's are too good not to watch

[@Nundevwizer]

@@CorvoFGhe’s not an explorer! He’s a very naughty boy!

[@ezrathebigmad]

The caw at the end had me laugh so hard I had an asthma attack

[@andreidobre1239]

He reminded me of Monty Python’s Flying Circus 💀

[@emmetcoyne6436]

Gotta feel for Magellan, all he wanted was to see India

[@aaronkrucoff5181]

He was just like Alexander the Great, just wanted one more piece

[@greenoftreeblackofblue6625]

The One Piece.​@@aaronkrucoff5181

[@shinsenshogun900]

I think he got bored there, since he got as far as the Malayan Peninsula eastwards BEFORE this voyager's gambit

[@oliversherman2414]

Missed opportunity for a Magellan TV sponsorship

[@morganrobinson8042]

Right? If there was ever a time, this was it.

[@oliversherman2414]

@@morganrobinson8042 lol

[@TheSci-fiAnarchist42]

Magellan: *embarks on a month's long voyage to the Asian spice Islands that ultimately ends in his demise* Also Magellan: "PARTY IN RIO!!!" 🥳

[@RickRobinCagnaan]

That’s Magalhaes for you.

[@SentMyOwnWay]

lol I don’t think I ever stopped thinking about Magellan since I learned about him in the 5th grade. The whole crew was a bunch of badasses.

[@Paztelle]

It’s weird how different places represent historical figures differently. (Assuming you’re not from the Philippines, because he literally colonized us so in practically every history school book highlights how much we should hate them).

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

Agreed

[@seafoxx777]

Imagine being a European explorer who has (possibly) seen the northern lights and going on an expedition to the south only to see the southern lights.

[@theawesomeman9821]

Give Magellen's crew credit, they sailed around the earth for over 5 years.

[@hismajesty6272]

There’s something that stirs my interest when I hear about the Age of Discovery, the treacherous voyages and alien lands. It makes me almost wish I lived back then, and was a part of those great adventures. (I know that’s a very modern and stary eyed way of looking at those grueling journeys, but I just want an adventure)

[@silentecho92able]

These guys were living a literal real life RPG, going into unknown far off land making friends or enemies along the way, and trying not to die and make off like a bandit with riches unimaginable.

[@chuckdavis1359]

Just visited a replica of one his ships, the Nao Trinidad, on Sunday. Thing was tiny. If you want to see it, it’s going to be in ST Augustine Florida next month.

[@dangalfthedruid]

Heading into the Pacific like that must have felt like clipping out of bounds in a videogame, where the sea extends on and on forever.

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

Once was a man, his name was Magellan. A Portuguese skipper The girls found him cute He sailed with five ships,to find the East Indies, Then come back to Spain, with a bounty of loot. Whoopie ti-yi-yo Oh happy Magellan! Starting your journey with hardly a care. Whoopie ti-yi-yo Strong, brave Magellan! You’ll find the East Indies , you just don’t know where. They crossed the Atlantic and spotted a country. Magellan said, “It’s the East Indies at last!” But then someone shouted, “Hey, that’s Argentina!” Magellan got cranky and chopped down the mast. Whoopie ti-yi-yo Settle down, Magellan. Put down that axe. There’s no time to despair. Whoopie ti-yi-yo Keep trying, Magellan. You’ll find the East Indies, you just don’t know where. A great storm arose In the mighty Pacific The five little ships Were diminished to three At last land was sighted Magellan was happy But then someone shouted, “Hey, that’s Chile!” Whoopie ti-yi-yo Cheer up, Magellan Check out your map and don’t tear out your hair Whoopie ti-yi-yo Keep trying, Magellan You’ll find the East Indies, you just don’t know where. It took them five months, but they crossed the Pacific They spotted a land, that was dotted with palms Magellan proclaimed, “Yes! That’s the East Indies!” But then someone shouted, “Hey, I think that’s Guam!” Ay-yi-yi-yi Oops, Magellan Your fun little journey’s Become a nightmare Whoopie ti-yi-yo Keep trying, Magellan You’ll find the East Indies, you just don’t know where They sailed due west To the Philippine Islands Magellan was pleased As the natives drew near But then someone shouted, “I think they’re attacking!” Magellan said, “What?” And got hit by a spear Whoopie ti-yi-yo Farewell, Magellan You almost made it It’s really not fair Whoopie ti-yi-yo Oh, ghost of Magellan The East Indies islands were right over there!

[@jfournerat1274]

I see you are a Animaniacs fan.

[@miscellaneoussarnian5282]

@@jfournerat1274 who isn't?

[@jfournerat1274]

@@miscellaneoussarnian5282 you are right. The characters of the show were so funny especially the Warner siblings Yakko, Wakko, and Dot.

[@calebwelch6393]

You had me at riches should be a t shirt!

[@brushdogart]

It amuses me that Magellan and Columbus made their voyages not because they knew more than other sailors of their time, but rather because they knew less. The rough size of the Earth was originally worked out by the ancient Greeks. Everyone knew that the distance to China across the Atlantic was way too far to travel without anywhere to stop for supplies. Columbus just got super lucky and ran into a previously unknown landmass. Magellan was even stupider than Columbus since he was trying to cross the Pacific without any friendly ports to resupply at along the western coast of the Americas. He bet everything on the Pacific being smaller than it is or running into some islands along the way.

[@Xo-3130]

To be fair the Pacific is filled with islands.

[@Nobody.exe50]

The slogan off "everyone dies " is one of the best marketing moves in history

[@giladpellaeon1691]

Possible Spoiler! In high school I had a history teacher tell us "30 years from now, you will remember this one fact from this class: In the Pacific Magellan's men were forced to boil and eat their leather pants." That was said roughly 28 years ago, so far so good.

[@mr.notsonice]

Magellan: I'll sail to the spice Islands Lapulapu: I'm about to end this man

[@me0101001000]

Filipinos: *menacing karaoke intensifies*

[@BiBiren]

​@@me0101001000 and plays "Magellan by Yoyoy Villame"

[@silversweet9211]

OMG I am dying with the opening with Magellan's Fairy Godmother 🤣🤣🤣

[@miguelguerreiro5280]

Cool to see one of my ancestors brother featured in your channel!

[@douglasboyle6544]

When you said they expected to be at the Spice Islands in 3 or 4 days I let out an audible scoff.

[@aliasfakename3159]

Sailing around the world back then was like a blind man crossing 5 lanes of traffic at midnight. It was scary, thrilling, and full of anticipation

[@aztn19]

I first learned about Magellan from The Animaniacs - that song is still catchy lol

[@BillGreenAZ]

I watched this video shortly after it came out. As I was watching it I could see the Like button spinning like the odometer on a rocket ship. OK, rocket ships don't have odometers but you get the idea.

[@jonnywatts2970]

Always psyched for new Jack Rackam vids!

[@timfortune9]

"There once was a man, his name was Magellan A Portuguese skipper, the girls found him cute. He sailed with five ships to find the East Indies And come back to Spain with a bounty of loot." - "The Ballad of Magellan" "Animaniacs"

[@sierrajohnson717]

Oh good a discovery recap I was absent during that section

[@holstorrsceadus1990]

Quality voice work on the ad. The Monty Python troop would be proud.

[@elijahguttman9289]

Love the little animations

[@conradbaker]

in elementary and secondary school we used to trace magellan's entire voyage (plus the return trip) on blank maps lol antonio pigafetta writing about the whole thing ftw

[@globalcoupledances]

I have that book. Good reading

[@aaronbecker5617]

One of the best channels on KZbin ❤

[@marcusestube]

The sponsor ad in this video is better than most of what's featured on KZbin.

[@Concavenator128]

Gotta love how at 5:14 Brazil is labeled "Brasilia sive pappagalli terra" ("Brasil, or the land of parrots")

[@danielsantiagourtado3430]

Love your content! Keep up the good work 😊😊😊❤❤❤

[@CollinMcLean]

It's not a Magellan TV ad episode? Missed opportunity Jack!

[@dawnlandspodcast8217]

"I used to be an adventurer like you, until I took a lance to the- wait, actually I'm still a better adventurer than you."

[@darrylerren8185]

The treaty of tordesillas is basically like my mom dividing the pizza between me and my bros

[@dr.nosborn6330]

Literally everybody died But Elcano got a nice heraldic shield

[@chagrined4days]

inspired me to look up & listen to the Animaniacs classic "The Ballad of Magellan" 😁

[@louisking7508]

You better put a known Filipino Song about Magellan... it wouldn't be complete if you weren't gonna mention/reference one of the great songs known in Philippine History.

[@FranzJoh]

Tell my momma do not cry😢 Tell my momma do not cry😭

[@TaaKissa]

If I had a nickle for every humorous low budget history youtube video about an extremely perilous ocean voyage that included a disco joke I saw this week I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but its weird that it happened twice.

[@TaaKissa]

The other one is OK Champs latest video about the HMS Terror btw

[@alfrancisbuada2591]

Ah yes, the man who would discover our Country and the first to die facing men with iron weapons in the Island of Mactan.

[@PerryTheOneArmLegend]

6:06 not sure if you just referenced Dr. Robotnik from Sonic SATAM with the "warm the cockles of my hearts" line. If so, that's some serious brownie points for this video in my books.

[@johnarnold7984]

Don't know what your referencing but "warm the cockles of my heart" is an old saying, like Magellan old.

[@PerryTheOneArmLegend]

@@johnarnold7984 Ah I was not aware of that. I'm just referencing a show that I remember from when I was a kid and that line always stood out to me is all.

[@thepro3k_watches656]

Man I love these videos

[@user-ju4cd6wj2j]

Should have been sponsored by Magellan TV😀😀😀

[@Doccit]

Why didn't he go the other way? If he thought the spice islands and the west coast of south America were right next to each other, and there were already confirmed safe routes from Spain to the spice islands, then why not start from the spice islands and try to bump into the west cost of the Americas? It seems way easier than starting from the west coast and trying to bump into the spice islands.

[@miguelsilva1446]

Cause the other way was filled with Portuguese very possessive of Africa and the Indian Ocean

[@dorianbarnes3903]

Super stocked for some more history :)

[@welcometonebalia]

Thank you.

[@Nate1373]

The quality of the animations seem better than usual. Props to the editor

[@LuckyBird551]

Please consider doing a video about Hippolyte Bouchard

[@stainxyz3373]

oh boy i need a part 2 quick

[@JDazell]

Sadly scurvy and ricketts are back in the uk according to recent reports

[@prettypic444]

Jenkins was the real MVP here

[@nunoamaro6518]

He was called Fernão de Magalhães respect Portugal

[@luanfonseca5179]

"u are gay in 1519 it's different" i broke

[@Confederate-hj2dc]

After all this, I would have netflixed and chilled with local ladies too.

[@leoe.5046]

Y'all don't know yet that the first person to sail the earth twice was a german - Maestre Anes. He died on the Villalobos expedition (where the philippines were named philippines)

[@miladeskandari7]

Jack I love your style of animation. You've inspired me to make my own. Do you mind me asking what software do you use?

[@JackRackam]

Don't be like me, I use Adobe Premiere lol

[@JonManProductions]

(Alestorm starts playing loudly) TO LANDS UNKNOWN, WE SERVE THE CASTILLION THROOOONNEEEE

[@8sins236]

Anyone else think that Magellan sounds like the name of a shampoo/conditioner brand?

[@jamcdonald120]

9:25 well not everyone, that one ship got back to spain right?

[@Zapzipzoop16]

Didn’t he become the Warden for Impal Down???

[@calumhyslop1630]

At 4:00 why did t you say “a little more spicy” it was right there

[@nicbahtin4774]

winter ? but this is the southern hemisphere

[@hjalmarfreidenvall1655]

Neat

[@MatthewCaunsfield]

Who moved those islands? 😁

[@Ariverfish]

Magellan was a hero. I'm sick of my country's education system portraying him as a villain. He had more balls than many of his contemporaries, faced various mutinies during the voyage, managed to keep a peaceful cooperation with the natives until they stabbed him in the back, and the completion of his voyage basically set in stone the clearing of the great mystery of the circumnavigation.

[@isaac3140]

What do you mean "stabbed him in the back" the dude tried to flex about how cool he and his bunch of sailors are and got crushed by an actually competent military. He told his allies to stand back because he was stupid. Oh yeah, and he razed and plundered the pacific islands

[@Ariverfish]

@@isaac3140 His crew got poisoned and attacked by Humabon unprompted after Mactan, forcing them to ditch many of their stuff, and even the "invasion" of Mactan was most likely exagerrated. They knew they were outnumbered and undersupplied for battle, and an invasion was not possible with the loses of men he incurred throughout the voyage, either through mutiny, disease or AWOL, they took the gamble that Lapu-Lapu would stand down and work things out diplomatically when they landed on shore. The gamble didn't work because Lapu-Lapu was a brute barbarian and filthy pirate who attacked him immediately, he was in active rebellion with Humabon raiding and killing as he goes. "Competent military" my arse, are you actually kidding me? Magellan was an explorer not a conquistador. The whole point of the voyage was the circumnavigation, they even ditched all of the precious metals they got from the Americas just to remove weight. Good thing Legazpi would actually bring the gunpowder and ink years after, crushing the Tagalogs while allying with other more civilized Datus like Sicatuna. The same couldn't be said today where the common man is under the thumb of Manila and the Tagalog.

[@isaac3140]

@@Ariverfish skill issue tbh. Magellan being an explorer and not a conquistador is exactly why he shouldn't have been trying to become a conquistador. That's a lot of words for "colonialism and genocide is kinda cool actually" I'm gonna assume you're gonna make another long and rambly reply so I'm gonna check out of this conversation. Have a nice day.

[@hansvogel4335]

Its Fernão de Magalhães....

[@GAMBANJUJJJ]

All i know about magellan other than the circumnavigation is the fact the man got bodied by a Filipino Tribesman

[@TheActualShoebill]

i ate the Belarus flag watching this

[@user-ge5vf5md7r]

Scurvy.If parents showed kids the horrors of scurvy i bet they'll eat their veggies.

[@CowMaster9001]

1:14 And this is El Jackass Antiguo

[@geminusleonem9365]

Kinda weird you didn't mention that Ferdinand Magellan, or Fernão de Magalhães as he was named, WAS Portuguese.

[@losisansgaming2628]

I caught a mistake at 1:04 he woudnt have said south anerica as the spanish and Portuguese consider it to all ve one giant continent even to this day

[@goodlookingcorpse]

In the ad, were you trying to do an imitation of Terry Jones from Monty Python doing a woman's voice (as in Life of Brian)? Because you did a good job if so.

[@cgt3704]

Thats better than the spanish animated movie whos name i forgot

[@floatingf8783]

Skip ad 3:19

[@johnarnold7984]

So, is the penguin in the stew because penguin's back on the menu, or was the penguin so cold it was trying to warm up?

[@Erox006]

like ,,,,, srsly this had to be the episode not to get sponsored by MagellanTV ... i didnt read video title , so i thought it was a segway ....

[@SeruraRenge11]

I mean, they didn't ALL die, otherwise the voyage couldn't be completed.

[@justinsanchez3286]

'Join us next time, when everybody dies' Is the next one gonna be a Lapulapu episode? If it is, expect a flood of comments from Filipinos

[@gobokinje9183]

Well... it coulda been worse... They could've ended up going the Cape Horn route :V

[@thechairman1306]

Didn't Magellan circumnavigate the globe before this voyage? How did he manage to get the positions of the islands he was looking for so wrong when he'd literally been to that exact part of the world before?

[@christianweibrecht6555]

Imagine if China instead of being foolish isolationists decided to fully explore the Pacific Ocean

[@Samuel-wm1xr]

China were never "foolish isolationists". The tributary system worked in its intended function of channeling trade into China's allies like Ryukyu after which they could be taxed, similar to the Spanish Casa de Contratacion policy. The Europeans crossed the Pacific because they wanted to get to the Spice Islands. Chinese merchants already controlled the Spice Islands (google the Sulu zone)

[@Xo-3130]

​@@Samuel-wm1xrthey had the largest fleet on earth at one point and where able to project power across the old world all the way to Africa. Then their Emperor decided to not do that anymore which cost them as it left a power vacuum on the seas that Europe took over. They also had a tendency not to properly use or put into practice all that their thinkers were developing... which Europe not only did but also perfected and expanded on. The British legitimately beat the Chinese using their own technology but making it better because Europe was the thunderdome of the Old World while China was so strong with men that they literally bullied their neighbors into submission and only really fight itself.

[@rezakarampour6286]

👍

[@keegandecker4080]

FACT: Canada is Portuguese for “there is nothing here”

[@franbalcal]

Wouldnt the Spanish already have reached the Pacific Ocean by land already, at leasy by central america? So everyone in the expedition would still have the hope that the "other side" of south america actually exists.

[@HD-mp6yy]

"You had my at riches" How else could Charles V fund the next war against France and the Ottomans

[@astrol4b]

I used to be an adventurer like Magellan, but then I took a lance on the knee.

[@AirQuotes]

Why did he did go to the Portugal King first

[@kermitthethinker1465]

Magellan was Portuguese

[@robertnovich4137]

Ah, the Age of Exploration... WELCOME TO DIE!!!

[@andido1722]

Why does the add feary sound like she is part of monty python?

[@FranzJoh]

Bro didnt include Battle of Mactan😭😭😭😭

[@edanthonydelosreyes8139]

Magellan included his son in his voyge

[@TheRealKiRBEY]

Ye