PHILIPPINES GEOGRAPHY

• How many majors in islands? Namely 3 Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao
• Who discovered the islands?


  NAMRIA(The National Mapping and Resources Information Authority
• What are the three major branches of the Philippines government?

  Executive, Legislative and Judiciary
• Region I-Ilocos Region
• Region II-Cagayan Valley
• Region III - Central Luzon
• Region IVA - CALABARZON (CAvite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, QueZON
• Region IVB-Southwestern Tagalog
• Region/MIMAROPA (Mindoro (Oriental and Occidental), Marinduque, Romblon, PAlawan
• Region V-Bicol Region
• Region VI-Western Visayas
• Region VII-Central Visayas
• Region VIII-Eastern Visayas
• Region (X-Zamboanga Peninsula
• Region X-Northem Mindanao
• Region X- Davao Region
• Region XII-SOCCSKSARGEN (South Cotabato, Cotabato, Sultan Kudarat, Slanger
• Region XIII- Caraga Region
• National Capital Region (NCR)
• Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR)
• Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM)
• What is PREAMBLE?

  The importance and value of life
• What is the national territory?


  Own land or territory
• The arrival of the Spaniards in the Philippines is the start of the written records of Philippine history.
• The Spaniards had a unwavering objective to spread their religion and further widen their territories, which led to the destruction of earlier records as much as they can.
• Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, the Philippines was a nameless archipelago with no solid unity between the different tribes/barangays.
• Pre-Spanish era, the Filipinos were living a simple life influenced by its neighboring countries in Asia due to regular bartering and trading such as China, India, and most parts of South Asia.
• The Filipinos had a system of writing, calendar, weights, and waving prior to the arrival of the Spaniards.
• Portuguese explorer, Ferdinand Magellan, rediscovered the Philippines in 1521 and claimed it in the name of Spain, the country who funded his expedition.
• Ferdinand Magellan was eventually killed in the Battle of Mactan by Datu Lapu Lapu.
• In 1542-1546, Spanish explorer Ruy Lopez de Villalobos named the country Las Islas Felipinas after the then Prince Felipe who was later crowned as King Philip II.
• In 1565, Miguel Lopez de Legazpi established the first Spanish settlement in Cebu.
• The Spaniards introduced Roman Catholicism and converted majority of the Filipinos.
• Manila was founded in 1571 as one of the major Spanish cities in the country, serving as the political and economic center of the Philippines.
• The Manila Acapulco Trade, also known as the Galleon Trade, was launched.
• Universities were built and the system for formal education was developed in Manila by the year 1863.
• Public education became available in Manila by the year 1863.
• Angered by the arrest of Dr. Jose Real, Filipino activists formed the katipunan, headed by Andres Bonifacio.
• The execution of Rizal in 1896 ignited the Philippine Revolution.
• The United States of America and Spain went to war with Spain over Manila Bay in the year 1898.