Week 15

• What does Las Islas Filipinas mean in English?

  The Philippine Island
• Las Islas Filipinas was named in honor of

  King Philip II of Spain
• means the work of an honest observer, versatile bureaucrat, who knew the workings of the administration from the inside

  sucesos
• The first to write but also the first to publish a Philippine history

  Governor Antonio de Morga
• Cebu, which Morga calls

  The City of the Most Holy Name of Jesus
• The City of the Most Holy Name of Jesus was first called

  The village of San Miguel
• The image of the Holy Child of Cebu, which many religious writers believed was brought to Cebu by the angels, was in fact given by the worthy Italian chronicler of Magellan's expedition

  The Chevalier Pigafetta
• Tendaya

  Leyte
• Of the native Manila rulers at the coming of the Spaniards, Raja Soliman was called

  Rahang mura
• Rahang Matanda

  Old king
• The native fort at the mouth of the Pasig river, which Morga speaks of as equipped with brass lantakas and artillery of larger caliber, had its ramparts reinforced with thick hardwood posts such as the Tagalogs used for their houses and called

  harigues or haligui
• Accordingly, Legaspi did not arrive in Manila on the 19th but on

  20th of May
• the Cebuans aided the Spaniards in their expedition against Manila, for which reason they were long exempted from tribute

  True
• The southern islands, the Bisayas, were also called

  The land of the Painted People
• The Spaniards retained the native name for the new capital of the archipelago, a little changed, however, for the Tagalogs had called their city,

  Maynila
• He it was who saved Manila from Li Ma-hong.

  Salcedo
• He died at the early age of twenty-seven and is the only encomendero recorded to have left the great part of his possessions to the Indians of his encomienda


  Salcedo
• His honesty and fine qualities, talent andpersonal bravery, all won the admiration of the Filipinos.

  Salcedo
• The one who called the Hernando Cortez of the Philippines, was the "conqueror's" intelligent right arm and the hero of the "conquest"

  Salcedo
• Legaspi's grandson


  Salcedo
• Vigan was his encomienda and the Ilokanos there were his heirs.

  Salcedo
• A Spanish commander who had gained fame in a raid on Borneo and the Malacca coast

  Captain Gabriel de Rivera
• He was the first envoy from the Philippines to take up with the King of Spain the needs of the archipelago.

  Captain Gabriel de Rivera
• When the English freebooter Cavendish captured the Mexican galleon Santa Ana, with 122,000 gold pesos, a great quantity of rich textiles-silks, satins and damask, musk perfume, and stores of provisions, he took 150 prisoners.
• The same governor, in like manner, also fortified the point at the entrance to the river where had been the ancient native fort of wood, and he gave it the name

  Fort Santiago
• In the attempt made by Rodriguez de Figueroa to conquer Mindanao according to his contract with the King of Spain, there was fighting along the Rio Grande with the people called the

  Buhahayenes
• Argensola has preserved the name of the Filipino who killed Rodriguez de Figueroa. It was...

  Ubal
• The raid by Datus Sali and Silonga of Mindanao, in 1599 with 50 sailing vessels and 3,000 warriors, against the capital of Panay
• Is the first act of piracy by the inhabitants of the South which is recorded in Philippine history

  The raid by Datus Sali and Silonga of Mindanao
• It will be remembered that these Moro piracies continued for more than two centuries
• In Morga's time, the Philippines exported silk to Japan whence now comes the best quality of that merchandise
• Be open-minded and use reason for better judgment. For marriage, find a honorable man.
• Patriarchy is perpetuated by friars. Women should be submissive and saintly
• Rizal believed that women should be empowered because it will lead to a good citizens
• The power of language. A particular friar opposed the idea of educating these women seeing it is a threat to the rule of the government.
• The power and good judgment of Filipinos are well known but now in slavery
• European and American women are educated and strong-willed
• Mothers are very important inbuilding a strong family.
• If not yet married, she should be honorable and command respect
• Saintliness is not just about going to church and kissing the hands of the friars. It is not blond obedience. It is by reason because thoughts are noble and free.