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Did Spanish colonial rule doom the Philippines? Think again…

Posted on September 18, 2015 By benign0 81 Comments on Did Spanish colonial rule doom the Philippines? Think again…
Did Spanish colonial rule doom the Philippines? Think again…

The following text taken from the bestselling book Sapiens is Yuval Noah Harari’s brilliant take on what set apart the European conqueror at the dawn of their golden age of imperialism from the peoples they conquered and from other empire builders that came before them: Around 1517, Spanish colonists in the Caribbean islands began to…

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Five Inaccuracies Still Accepted as “Philippine History”

Posted on March 20, 2015 By MidwayHaven 101 Comments on Five Inaccuracies Still Accepted as “Philippine History”
Five Inaccuracies Still Accepted as “Philippine History”

Some time ago I watched a local documentary that dramatized Ferdinand Magellan’s visit to Mactan Island in 1521. Most Filipinos are aware of the events here: Mactan’s chieftain Lapu-Lapu kills Magellan, and the rest of the natives drive the rest of the Spanish back to their boats. What irked me however was what the actor…

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