Lesson 1 Flashcards
Spanish colonization, why did they do it?
Ph being close to China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc., making it a good trading post
rich supplies of mineral and valuable metals, food, and other resources that can support the needs of colonizers
Main tool of the Spanish to control the PH
Feudalism
large tracks of land awarded by the Spanish royalty to the colonial officials and the religious orders (friars) for their services to the throne like oppressing the Filipinos
Encomienda
combined barangays into larger administrative and economics
Encomiendas
how they profited from encomiendas
collect taxes, enforces labor (unpaid that you owe to the landlord), conscripted native soldiers, converted forest clearings
forced all the boys to work when they are 12 or 13 to build ships in order to fight off Portugal and to send more goods to trade
Polo y Servicio
large scale of cultivation of cash crops
to have more focus on the Manila-Acapulco Trade
Hacienda
people had to pay rent to live on the land; crops are bought off at very low prices, making landowners bankrupt and their lands grabbed
tenancy system
what was the result of hacienda/tenancy system
emergence of SISTEMANG KASAMA and FILIPINO BOURGEOSIE
Maintenance of spanish colonozation
maintained through violence of armed forces, religion, and turning the local ruling class into puppets
How did we fight backs to the Spanish Colonization?
-Lapu lapu
-Diego and Gabriela Silang
-200 local revolts
who led people’s movements
ilustrado
protests against abusive church officials
Secularization Movement
Led by ilustrados who went to Spain to study and campaign for reform in the Ph
Propaganda Movement