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    Philippine History: and Its Government

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    The document provides a summary of Philippine history from early settlement to Spanish colonial rule. It describes how the Negritos were the earliest settlers around 30,000 years ago, followed by the Malayans who introduced more advanced cultures. Arab traders introduced Islam in the 14th century. The Spanish began colonizing the Philippines after Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1521. Spanish rule was established by 1571 with the founding of Manila as the colonial capital, though they faced resistance from local groups and faced attacks from foreign powers like the Portuguese, Dutch, and Moro pirates throughout the colonial period.

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    The document provides a summary of Philippine history from early settlement to Spanish colonial rule. It describes how the Negritos were the earliest settlers around 30,000 years ago, followed by the Malayans who introduced more advanced cultures. Arab traders introduced Islam in the 14th century. The Spanish began colonizing the Philippines after Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1521. Spanish rule was established by 1571 with the founding of Manila as the colonial capital, though they faced resistance from local groups and faced attacks from foreign powers like the Portuguese, Dutch, and Moro pirates throughout the colonial period.

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    The document provides a summary of Philippine history from early settlement to Spanish colonial rule. It describes how the Negritos were the earliest settlers around 30,000 years ago, followed by the Malayans who introduced more advanced cultures. Arab traders introduced Islam in the 14th century. The Spanish began colonizing the Philippines after Ferdinand Magellan's expedition in 1521. Spanish rule was established by 1571 with the founding of Manila as the colonial capital, though they faced resistance from local groups and faced attacks from foreign powers like the Portuguese, Dutch, and Moro pirates throughout the colonial period.

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    Philippine History: and Its Government

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    Philippine History

    And Its GOvernment

    Early History
    The Negritos
    -believed to have migrated to the
    Philippines some 30,000 years ago
    from Borneo, Sumatra, and Malaya.
    The Malayans
    These people belonged to a primitive
    epoch of Malayan culture, which has
    apparently survived to this day among
    certain groups such as the Igorots.
    The Malayan tribes that came later
    had more highly developed material
    cultures.

    14th Century
    Arab traders from Malay and Borneo
    introduced Islam into the southern
    islands and extended their influence
    as far north as Luzon.

    The first Europeans to visit (1521) the Philippines


    were those in the Spanish expedition around the world
    led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
    Other Spanish expeditions followed, including one
    from New Spain (Mexico) under Lpez de Villalobos,
    who in 1542 named the islands for the infante Philip,
    later Philip II.

    Spanish Control
    The conquest of the Filipinos
    by Spain did not begin in
    earnest until 1564, when
    another expedition from New
    Spain, commanded by Miguel
    Lpez de Legaspi, arrived.

    Spanish leadership was soon established


    over many small independent communities
    that previously had known no central rule.
    By 1571, when Lpez de Legaspi
    established the Spanish city of Manila on
    the site of a Moro town he had conquered
    the year before, the Spanish foothold in
    the Philippines was secure, despite the
    opposition of the Portuguese, who were
    eager to maintain their monopoly on the
    trade of East Asia.

    Manila repulsed the attack of the Chinese pirate


    Limahong in 1574. For centuries before the
    Spanish arrived the Chinese had traded with the
    Filipinos, but evidently none had settled
    permanently in the islands until after the
    conquest. Chinese trade and labor were of great
    importance in the early development of the
    Spanish colony, but the Chinese came to be
    feared and hated because of their increasing
    numbers, and in 1603 the Spanish murdered
    thousands of them (later, there were lesser
    massacres of the Chinese).

    The Spanish governor, made a viceroy in 1589,


    ruled with the advice of the powerful royal
    audiencia. There were frequent uprisings by the
    Filipinos, who resented the encomienda
    system. By the end of the 16th cent. Manila had
    become a leading commercial center of East
    Asia, carrying on a flourishing trade with China,
    India, and the East Indies. The Philippines
    supplied some wealth (including gold) to Spain,
    and the richly laden galleons plying between the
    islands and New Spain were often attacked by
    English freebooters.

    There was also trouble from other quarters,


    and the period from 1600 to 1663 was marked
    by continual wars with the Dutch, who were
    laying the foundations of their rich empire in
    the East Indies, and with Moro pirates. One of
    the most difficult problems the Spanish faced
    was the subjugation of the Moros. Intermittent
    campaigns were conducted against them but
    without conclusive results until the middle of
    the 19th cent. As the power of the Spanish
    Empire waned, the Jesuit orders became more
    influential in the Philippines and acquired great
    amounts of property.

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