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    Philippines

    Colonial
    Experience
    Lesson 5: Selected
    Readings in Philippine
    History
    Edited and annotated by
    Emma Helen Blair and
    James Alexander Robertson.
    Also known to students as
    B&R
    Why were they
    in the
    Philippines in
    the first place?
    The story of
    Magellan coming
    to the Philippines
    is part of a bigger
    story- Europe’s
    “Age of Discovery”
    Europe had always known about the East (Oriente) because of the
    Silk Road and from the accounts of Marco Polo (an Italian traveller).
    Europe had always known about the East (Oriente) because of the
    Silk Road and from the accounts of Marco Polo (an Italian traveller).
    Crusade Wars

    Soon, this inland trade route will be disrupted by natural calamities,


    bandit attacks, and the by the Crusade Wars (Catholic Holy War).
    Venice, Italy

    Constantinople (Turkey)

    The conquest by the Ottoman Empire of Constantinople gave the


    Venetian traders exclusive control over the land route to the East.
    The Iberian Powers (Portugal and Spain) started the
    competition for maritime superiority over the Atlantic in
    the hope of reaching East for the Spice Island (Moluccas).
    In the Ptolemy’s
    World Map
    manuscript of
    Niculaus
    Germanus (1467),
    Philippines was
    just part of a
    group of islands
    of Maniola and
    Barusas.
    Prince Henry, The Navigator
    Portugal, started when he
    opened a maritime school
    (1419) that will train sailors.
    The marriage of Queen
    Isabella of Castile and King
    Ferdinand II of Aragon
    (1469) resulted in the rise of
    Spain as world power.
    “West Indies”

    Christopher
    Columbus crossed
    the Atlantic in the
    hope of finding
    ‘Cipangu’.
    Treaty of Tordesillas, signed on June 7, 1494, divided the
    "newly discovered" lands outside Europe between Spain and
    Portugal. The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and
    the lands to the west to Spain.
    Portugal reigned over the Eastern Hemisphere
    even reaching as far as present-day Taiwan,
    Macau, and Japan.
    Refused by Portugal,
    Ferdinand Magellan
    proposed go to the
    East by sailing
    Westward.
    Treaty of Zaragoza (1529) states that Spain would relinquish
    its claims over the Moluccas Islands by placing the
    demarcation line (Anti-Meridian) of the Eastern Hemisphere
    Magellan’s two-years expedition in the Atlantic and the Pacific Ocean and
    the first encounter of Filipinos with Spaniards were all recorded by
    Magellan’s assistant- Antonio Pigafetta.
    Missionaries from various
    religious orders (eg.
    Franciscans, Jesuits,
    Dominicans, and others)
    were sent to the colony as
    partners of conquistadores.
    While conquistadores were
    engaged in the
    administration and in
    extracting tribute from the
    indios, the friars we in-
    charged in the religious
    conversion. And since the
    friars were contact with the
    indios more often, they were
    able to obtain more
    information, too.

    Fr. Juan de Plasencia was one of those who were able to send reports to the the Spanish
    King about the condition of the Filipinos during initial years of Spanish colonization.
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