Brief history of the philippines youtube

The Philippines was named after King Philip II of Spain () and was a Spanish colony for over years. Today the Philippines is an archipelago of 7, islands. However, it is believed that during the last ice age, they were joined to mainland Asia by a land bridge, enabling human beings to walk from there.

The first people in the Philippines were hunter-gatherers.

However, between 3, BC and 2, BC, people learned to farm.

Brief history of the philippines youtube

They grew rice and domesticated animals. From the 10th century AD Filipinos traded with China and by the 12th Century AD Arab merchants reached the Philippines and introduced Islam.

Then in , Ferdinand Magellan sailed across the Pacific.

He landed in the Philippines and claimed them for Spain. Magellan baptized a chief called Humabon and hoped to make him a puppet ruler on behalf of the Spanish crown.

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Magellan demanded that other chiefs submit to Humabon but one chief named Lapu Lapu refused. Magellan led a force to crush him. However, the Spanish soldiers were scatter