Burial Practices - Tagalogs had a unique way buryingthe dead and the observance of the funeral varied according to the rank or class of the deadperson
Deceased chief
He was placed beneath a littlehouseorporch
Mourned him for four days
laid him on a boat which served as a coffin or bier
In a place of rowers each one being assigned a place at the oat by two's female and malespecies
Deceased Warrior
A livingslavetiedbeneath his body until in this wretched way he died
Relatives of the dead man bewailed him
Singing Dirgies
The Aetas or Negritos : Form of burial
Thy dug a deep perpendicular hole
Leaving him upright with head or crown un buried
They put half a coconut which was to serve him as a shield
Beliefs in the afterlife - The natives belived that those who were good and brave went to a place of restwhentheydied . And those that commited crimes and terrible sins went to place of punishment
Maca - Paradiseorvillageofrest
Casanaan - Placeofanguish
Bathala - Maker of all things
Sitan - Demons
Ghost - They called Vibit
Phantoms - They called Tigbalaang
Partaman - If any woman died in childbirth she and the child suffered punishment and that , At night she could be heard lamenting
Ottoman empire conquered constantinople in 1453
Portugal and spain initially led the explorations in the east
Vasco de gama - Portuguese exploret . He reached india by sailing in the capeofgoodhope and the indianocean
1511 : The portuguese took hold of the port of Mallaca
Mallaca - Important location for the storage , importation , and exportation of goods in southeastasia
Antonio Pigafetta
Born in 1491 in vicenza , Venice italy
Eldest son of GiovanniPigafetta to 2nd wife angela Zoga
Studied Astronomy , Geography and Cartography
Worked in the ships owned by the knights of rhodes
March 16 , 1521 - Magellan fleet sees thr island of samar
March 18 , 1521 - Magellan forces and filipinos make first contact on homonhon island
March28 , 1521 - Magellan's fleet anchors off limasawa . They are well received by the filipinos in that island . Magellan establishes good relations with rajah colambu
March 31 , 1521 - Magellan orders his priest to conduct on eastermass on limasawa island
April 6 , 1521 - Magellans fleet leaves limasawa
April 7 , 1521 - Magellan's fleet arrives at the port of cebu
April 14 , 1521 - Magellan convinces rajah humabon to convert to christianity and be baptized
April 27 , 1521 - Magellan and his men attack lapulapu and his warriors in mactan , The spaniards lost