Project Time With Jacky! Week 2- Fun Facts!

Furthering my research for my project, I have come across some important fun facts that I would like to share with you. Lets take it from the top, well first lets think about the distance around the world. If you travel on the equator its about 24,901.5 miles to travel around the world. People before could not possibly travel on the equator the whole time, so the distance would be longer. In the novel I'm reading the main character travels around the world in 80 days, that means based on the equator distance; which is the longest, he would have to travel about 311.2 miles a day! Whoa, now thats a long distance, its a little more than the width of France! Although the book is fiction, are there actual people that traveled the around the world? The answer is yes! The first KNOWN person to circumnavigate the world was one named Ferdinand Magellan, in 1519. People before could have done this as well, but it was not documented. I would suspect the Vikings did. To travel far, you can't just pack up some clothes a go, you will probably need A LOT of equipment and food to keep you nourished. If you are going to travel great distances, like around the world, your are going to need some exploration basics. A compass for example to help you with with direction to go, otherwise you might just be going in circles. Did you know that before Europeans set out for exploration, they gained a lot of technologies from the Muslims during the crusades to help them travel. A great example would be the compass and new designs of ships. Food wise, your going to need a lot of proteins and vitamins and nutrients found in fruits. You wouldn't want to get scurvy, a disease caused by malnutrition and lack of vitamin C. Many sailors in the past actually suffered from this as they did not have much nutrition on the seas. British sailors where actually called "limeys" from all the limes they ate to prevent scurvy. I shall conclude here as if not, I will ramble on and on. I hope you are enjoying these posts, and there will be more as I progress in my project.