![]() This is completely false, as the route in question was simply too long and tough to be of any pragmatical interest to trade. Most egregiously, the series claims at its conclusion that the route discovered by Magellan was the key for Spain to dominate the Pacific spice trade.The series claims none of the Trinidad's crewmen returned to Europe, but in real life, at least five of them did, among them its captain, Espinosa.The former was in command on the Trinidad, and the latter traveled in the Concepción. In real life, Magellan and Elcano weren't aboard of the same ship. ![]() Similarly, the previous meeting between Magellan and him took place in Valladolid, not Seville. Being the Holy Roman Emperor and such, he would have had infinitely more important things to do. In real life, King Charles V wasn't personally present in Seville to see the expediton sail off, as he was in Barcelona at the time.The decision to break the treaty anyway and return by way of the Indian Ocean was decided by Elcano, not without the input of the expedition being reduced to two damaged ships (one of which, the Trinidad, actually tried to do what Magellan had intended, only that it got lost) that would not endure the substantially harder double back. In real life, he didn't have such a desire he only wanted to reach the Moluccas, and from there hopefully retrace his steps back to Spain in order not to break the 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas by entering the Indian and African domains of the Portuguese Empire. In this version of history, Ferdinand Magellan's primary goal before sailing off seems to be already that of circumnavigating the globe.In the series, Magellan's wife and son, Beatriz Barbosa and Rodrigo Magallanes, are alive when Elcano returns to Spain, when in real life they were both long dead.That was Juan López de Carvalho, who was demoted for being a jerkass. Elcano wasn't Magellan's immediate sucessor in real life.On Magellan's orders, the crewmembers cut his corpse in pieces and impaled those as a warning. Gaspar de Quesada was not only beheaded as in the series.
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