Philippines is made up of 7,000 islands. They are not hundreds, but thousands. It might sound a lot, but if you see it in the globe it looks smaller than you thought it would be. Philippines was taken over by the Spanish for over 300 years, and it was decided to be named after King Phillip II. Ferdinand Magellan then sailed across the Pacific Ocean claiming the Philippines for Spain in the year of 1521. He even got Humabon which is the chief at that period to be baptized and make him a puppet ruler for the Spanish crown. When Magellan wanted the other chiefs to submit to Humabon, there was one chief that declined to do so. Magellan then got furious that he led soldiers to go and execute him; however, the Spanish troops were separated that Ferdinand Magellan became the target and got killed.
The people from Spain did not gain a secure place to obtain power in the Philippines until the year of 1565 when Miguel Lopez led a voyage and built a fort in Cebu. After six years, they landed in Luzon where they built the city of Intramuros which is now called Manila, and it became the capital of the Philippines. Conquerors from Spain walked inland and vanquished the northern part of the Philippines called Luzon. They generated an old-fashioned ownership system and owned huge properties that the Filipinos’ worked for. Spaniards were also the one who converted the Filipinos to Catholicism and built schools as well as universities for them.
The Spanish people brought in richness for the higher class. The Chinese sent goods such as: fabrics, ceramics, shellac, etcetera., every year to the Philippines. The years moved tediously in the country until the British seized Manila in the year of 1762, they held it for two long years and passed it back under the terms of the settlement of Paris and was validated in 1763.
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