Haven Geographies and the Indigenous Prestige Economies of Spanish Colonial PhilippinesAt the start of Spanish colonization many Philippine islanders chose to flee to the rugged terrain of the mountains and nei
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From the 15th to the 19th century, Spain controlled vast territories reaching as far as Asia. At the height of their colonization, in the 18th century, Spain controlled the Indies composed of the Philippines and the New World, serving as the largest colonies under Spanish rule....
Cuba was granted their independence, the United States emerged as a world power, and Spanish colonization ended. After the war, the United States continued to fight, until 1901, against the Filipinos who wanted their independence. The United States did grant the Philippines their independence in ...
His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies. He described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.Arriving as one of the...
the need to prevent them from settling elsewhere in the region induced a process of direct colonization in the southern borderlands.61As a result, Puerto de la Soledad was gradually integrated in a network of tiny but strategic outposts spanning the southern coasts of the Atlantic and the Pacifi...
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What were the advantages and disadvantages of Spanish colonization in the Philippines? What impact did Spanish colonization have on the western part of North America? What was the most significant result of the Spanish colonization of Central and South America? What advantages did the Spanish h...
There is no minimizing or disparaging these achievements, whose very conception was beyond the reckoning of all the native inhabitants of those lands from the Bahamas West to the Philippines. It even occasioned some sober reflection and adjustment in India and China. The...