Events of the Philippine Island

The Spaniards treated the natives as slaves and attempted to erase their culture and family allegiances. They demanded more work from the Indians by enslaving them. They suppressed the natives and threatened them by trying to stamp out traditional Indian religious practices. After being treated so badly by the Spanish, in 1680 the Indians revolted and killed many Spaniards, cut the

The attitude of the Spanish to the people living in the New World was that they were uncivilized and heathen. The natives were abused, oppressed, exploited, and ill treated by the Spanish Conquistadors. The Indians lost their freedom, their rights, their culture and religion. It’s truly shocking

For this essay I will be talking about the book “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Whom wrote this to the King of Spain, Prince Philip II, in 1542 to protest what was happening in the New World to the native people. I will be explaining many things during this essay. The first thing I will go over is what the books tells us about the relationship between Christianity and the colonialism. The second thing I will talk about is if it was enough to denounce the atrocities against indigenous people. Next, if it is possible to

The acquisition of Philippines by the United States is the topic that is going to be focused upon throughout this paper. The historical context of this topic deserves to analyzed with reference to both the primary and secondary readings assigned. The highlighted issue takes place after the treaty of Paris was signed between the United States and Spain which liberated Spain’s remaining colonies. Towards the end of the 19th century, Americans were influenced by the ideology of imperialism. They believed that advanced industrialized nations like the United States, Great Britain and France needed to acquire colonies in order to provide raw materials to feed their industrial economies. Extensive markets were wanted in order to sell finished products to those colonial masses.

Death. Rape. Torture. Enslavement. These were some of the horrific tragedies Indigenous peoples endured as Iberians during the 15th to 16th century entered and ravaged their world. As the Spanish empire spread their colonies into the Americas, many Indigenous peoples suffered the wake of the Spanish thirst for power and profit. Iberians depicted the Indigenous peoples as naïve and inferior because Iberians believed they were religiously and socially superior on the account of Christianity and their assessment of a “civilized” culture. Caused by this superiority complex, the Indigenous peoples were subjected to many hardships.

Because the idea of “trade” was no longer the goal, the Spanish decided that they would conquor the native populations if they could not trade. This became to be one of the main goals of the Spanish, the exploitation of thr Natives to eventually gain the gold and silver. The Native Americans had been forced into Christianity and therefore were exploited by the church. Also, when the europeans came over they had brought a lot of diseases, killing off a lot of the Native Americans. The Natives had not had their immune systems brought up so that in turn had been why so many had passed

them against their will to work for the country of Spain. The natives had no authority or power

There were many ways the spanish made the natives lives miserable. One of them is that the spanish forced the natives to change their religions. The Spaniards were disgusted by their religion, the sacrifices, and the “fake” gods. According to Hernan Cortes “I did everything i could to steer them away from their false gods and draw them to our Lord God.” They tried to change something the natives believed in for thousands of years.

Spain was a global superpower in matters of wealth and their successes stemming from the arts and academia to travel and territorial conquests. Of these accomplishments, their most prized achievement was acquiring a heavy portion of Latin America where their influence originated from the northern borders of Mexico deep into South America. They abused the resources they found, cheated the natives all the while demolishing their culture and population. In turn this gave birth the rise of a number of rebellions by the oppressed against the conquistadors to take back the land and implement laws and social standards that benefited the people and return to them the rights that they had been

spread. This caused the public’s opinion of Spain to worsen and furthered their cries for

But because of the non-tolerance of Christianity, the Muslims were forced to leave or die. This caused many deaths and cause the Spanish inquisition. But if it weren't for the unity and finally Christianity taking over Spain the world would not be the

In contrast, in a review of the latter author of “Investigaciones” written by Andrés Bello, who intends to shift all the guilt from the grotesque way that Spain imposed the government and imposed slavery to simple human nature. The author also states out how Spain has been remembered and also “envied” for how they proceeded when it came to conquering American soil, but this author in particular points out how this has always been the way mighty states have come across with power and wealth, dealing with the weak among other terrible

The revolts all began in Cavite, and the spaniards were killing innocent villagers to scare the others, to show them if they do rebel then they will end up like the dead. They were wrong, the villagers were angry and they created a huge movement called Kilusang Propaganda, they wanted to achieve the objective of being equal to the Spanish, not even kick them out. Due to the lack of finance and the leaders being so divided, the movement soon came to an end. The Second major movement called La Liga Filipina had they same goals, aiming for freedom in peace, but it came crumbling down when the leader, Jose Rizal was captured. Just when the Filipinos lost hope, a young man known by the name of Andrés Bonifacio came to lead a group that was not going to take no for an answer. Their only option to get their country back to normal was through violence, basically making them an army. The army was called, the “KKK”, abbreviated for

Personally, I believe that this essay poses two arguments about the indolence of the Filipinos, Rizal, in the beginning of his essay alleged that Indios are indolent, but only in the sense of little love for work or lack of energy, and not indolence as in the context of laziness. With this belief, he even attributed to climate the indolence of the natives. However, as I read through the essay, there were lines which I believe presents the idea that the natives were not indolent. According to the line, certain unsubdued tribes have been cultivating beautiful fields and working energetically. In addition to that, it also points out the idea that in spite of the climate and the few needs that natives have during that time, since if we compare their needs with the needs of the modern times we have more needs and sometimes complicated wants than before, were not indolent. Thus, I think that Rizal

In the film Jose Rizal, the social, cultural, and historical significance found in this film was somewhat similar to eachother. The social significance that I found was how the Philippine and Spanish communities were impacted because of what Jose Rizal had written in his novels. In his novels, he incorporated accusations toward the Spaniards about how they have been abusing and taking advantage of the Philippine community. The Philippine community sought to fight back so his accusations caused a fight between the two comminutes and resulted to an arrest towards Jose Rizal. He was punished for the truth he had written in his novels. In the end, Jose Rizal was executed by the Spaniards and was named the national hero of the Philippines not long after. The cultural significance that I found was how Jose valued his culture and people in it. He used his culture as a way to encourage himself to do things in his education, career, and hobbies. He valued the way he was taught especially buy his mother. His mother had a great impact on his life because she taught him to see education as something he should greatly value. As a result, he was able to learn great things in some of the few great schools around the country. He used his cultural background to his knowledge to fulfill his morals and aspirations. The historical significance that I found was how the film greatly represented the history of the fight between the Philippine and Spanish community. The film presented great