07 | Enrique of Malacca: why Magellan was not the world’s first circumnavigator

Who really was the first circumnavigator of the globe? The name every child in the West knows is Magellan, but he died in the Philippines before making it back to Portugal. So who was it? Could it be that we never even knew his real name?YouTube link for this episode: https://youtu.be/gyhXVEj4PxEPlease go and see Filipino director Lav Diaz's film 'Magellan' if you get the chance. My description of it really does it absolutely no justice. For reference, it has an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is almost certainly the most accurate portrayal of Magellan's life ever to take the screen. No English is spoken in the film. It's all in local Filipino and Indonesian languages, Portuguese, and Spanish, so it really feels like an authentic window into the past.Email: [email protected]: ⁠ @RichardLikesHistory⁠X: @skerkwagga1939Produced by Richard Marais(0:00) The spread of Islam (3:48) The Straits of Malacca and the Spice Islands (12:03) The Venetian Spice Monopoly (14:42) The situation in Iberia (15:41) Manuel I makes his gamble (17:36) Enter Dom Afonso Albuquerque (18:59) Enter Fernão de Magalhães (20:01) Enter Enrique of Malacca (21:02) Manuel I is having none of it (21:57) Enter Don Carlos (23:33) Magellan sets off (24:31) The mystery of Tierra del Fuego (25:35) Mutiny and the Pacific Voyage (26:43) The Philippines (31:26) The First Circumnavigator