Spanish Colonization Early Spanish expeditions Ferdinand Magellan arrived in the Philippines in 1521. The Philippine islands first came to the attention of Europeans with the Spanish expedition around the world led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan in 1521. Magellan landed on the island of Cebu...
early as the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, Filipino fishermen were already using the area as a traditional fishing ground and shelter during bad weather.[9] In 1957, the Philippine government conducted an oceanographic survey of the area and together with the US Navy force base[...
The Philippines: A Past Revisited From the Spanish Colonization to the Second World WarRenato ConstantinoCristian Peraz
When the first Spaniards arrived in the Philippines in the 16th century, they found small, scattered communities on the seacoasts and the banks of rivers and lakes. Spanish chroniclers reported the use of an indigenous script and bamboo bark for writing letters and recording transactions. But ther...
European Empires in the Americas: European explorers and conquerors began coming to the Americas in droves after 1492. While the Spanish and Portuguese took the lead in colonization, the French soon began sending explorers of their own to the New World. ...
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...
The Haitian Revolution took place in the former French colony of Saint-Domingue, which comprised the western half of the island of Hispaniola. It was a global war in the forces from across the Atlantic world were involved in the Haitian Revolution....
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...
(most of the new nations ended up under dictatorships and military juntas) from 1808 through 1833. To the long list of native revolts could be added those in the Philippines, Cuba and others in Africa and Asia. Towards the end of the 19th Century, the United States of America decided ...
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 ...