Philippine Society under Spanish rule Flashcards
“En cada fraile tenia el rey en Filipinas un capitan
general y un ejercito entero”
“In each friar in the Philippines, they had a captain and a whole army” -Mexican Viceroy
With _______________, the people lost the freedom they enjoyed
colonization
The situation of the Philippines:
la soberania monacal
(monastic supremacy)
or
frailocracia
(friarocracy)
Even ASSIMILATION between the colonizers
and the locals was (quite literally) centered
around ____________
religion
The __________ and _________ were ordered to collect all the scattered Filipinos together
missionaries and the encomenderos
__________aimed to consolidate colonial control over Philippine indigenous communities by compelling prominent individuals to relocate into poblaciones within hearing distance of church-bells.
Reducción (resettlement)
were used to attract the locals
Christian rites and rituals
Muslim conflict drama
moromoro
By _______________ there are 6,148,250 Christians in the
Philippines
1892
kaibigang matalik at tagapayo ni Jose Rizal. Ngunit isa siyáng iginagálang na Alemang iskolar, at kinaibigan ni Rizal dahil eksperto ito sa etnograpiyang Filipino. Marami siyáng nai- sulat hinggil sa Filipinas baga- man hindi kailanman natun- tong ng bansa.
Ferdinand Blumentritt
unbaptized are coined as________
and those Muslim faith are _________
heathens
Mohammedans
Give an example of external changes in the Philippines under the Spanish Rule
Construction of colonial churches and convents made of stone.
The building of private homes of cal y canto (lime and mortar)
water reservoirs (aljibes)
Ethnobotanic specimens like fruits, vegetables, and medicinal herbs.
The geographical records of the Philippines was also improved. (ang mapa mas organized na)
kanggan and bahag (loin
cloth) were transformed into the barong
tagalog or camisa chino and trousers.
baro and saya for women continued to be
worn except that it eventually developed into
the mestizo, dress
kanggan and bahag (loin
cloth) were transformed into ?
the barong tagalog or camisa chino and trousers.
baro and saya for women continued to be
worn except that it eventually developed into
the ____________, dress
mestizo
Give an example of internal changes in the Philippines under the Spanish Rule. Try to explain each on your own understanding, eme
Cultural Exchange
Theocentric literature appeared as soon as the Spaniards settled in the
form of: Awit, Corrido, and Metrical romances (narrative poems)
General art was also propagated with Printmaking and Engraving being a few of what Filipinos were known for
Education
General Literacy + Religious Indoctrination
Language Exhange
Name changes
Though education was not at all accessible until the __________________ - even still, it was difficult for Filipinos to get an
education
educational decree of 1863
Access to education by the Filipinos was later liberalized through the enactment of the _________________________ which provided for the establishment of at least one primary school for boys and girls in each town under the responsibility of the municipal government; and the establishment of a normal school for male teachers under the supervision of the Jesuits
Educational Decree of 1863
who said this
“The cause of our backwardness and ignorance is the lack of means of education, the vice that afflicts us from the beginning until the end of our careers.”
-Rizal
has long proved to be, on the whole, by much the most cheap and efficacious instrument of good government and order—even the common
Church
Who said this
and I have always observed that the Manila men serving on board ships
and forming their crew have been much often able to subscribe their
names to the ship’s articles than the British seamen on board the same
vessels could do.”
Blumentritt, 1896
“Wingfield came across a Dominican
missionary who apologized for his bad
Spanish, on the ground that having lived
continuously for eighteen years with the
natives, speaking Visaya the whole time, he
had almost forgotten his own tongue.”
-The Friars of The Philippine
it was already rare to find a Filipino __
“who still knew how to read
them(baybayin), much less write them.
All of them read and write our Castilian
letters now,”
Sebastian Totanes in 1745
“The early missionaries in the Philippines as those in Mexico were prone to regard the ancient writings equally with the objects used in such worship as was practiced by the native people as works of the evil one, they ruthlessly destroyed these signs of culture whenever and wherever found.”
Culture Erasure was often deliberate
James Robertson
“The early missionaries in the Philippines as those in ____________ were prone to regard the ancient writings equally with the objects used in such worship as was practiced by the native people as works of the evil one, they ruthlessly destroyed these signs of culture whenever and wherever found.”
Mexico
