Impact of Spanish Colonial Period on Filipino Life

The Spanish fleet led by Ferdinand Magellan sailed westward from Spain to search for the ______ Islands on the other side of the world.

March 16, 1521 – The Spanish fleet arrived in the vicinity of ______.

April 7 – The fleet visited the port of ______.

Magellan gave the statue of the Santo Nino to the Queen of ______ as gift during the baptism.

April 27, 1565 – Another Spanish expedition led by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi entered the port of ______.

The Cebuanos retreated to the ______.

The Spaniards established the first Spanish settlement in the ______, but Cebuanos harassed this settlement.

June 4 – The Cebuanos, led by Rajah Tupas, were forced to recognize Spanish ______.

May 1571 – The Spaniards, with the aid of a large Visayan force, attacked and defeated the Muslim kingdom of Manila ruled by Rajah ______.

They made Manila the capital of the ______.

Spanish missionaries convinced them to accept ______ rule.

Las Islas Felipinas: Hispanization of the Filipinos I. Establishing Spanish ______.

The plaza was to measure one and a half times longer than its ______, neither smaller than 60 by 90 meters, nor bigger than 200 by 250 meters.

One side of the plaza was reserved for the ______.

Another side of the plaza was reserved for the tribunal, also known as the ______.

Streets started from the four corners and the middle of the sides of the plaza, straight and properly measured at ______ angles with one another.

Houses were lined up along them. Uniformly Designed Towns and Cities Poblaciones de la Provincia de Cebu 2. Christianizing the Filipinos Dividing the country into the five missionary orders: 1.Augustinians: Central and Southern Luzon, Ilocos, Cebu and Panay 2.Franciscans: Bicol 3.Jesuits: the Visayas, except Cebu and Panay 4.Dominicans: Northern Luzon, except Ilocos ______.

Spanish soldiers and missionaries implemented a Tobacco ______: provinces like Ilocos and Cagayan Valley had to produce a certain volume of tobacco or pay penalties.

Most of the provinces of Iloilo, Negros, and Cebu were converted into sugar ______.

The slopes of Bicol were cultivated with abaca plants, which were processed into Manila Hemp, used as cordage for ______.

Many farmlands were left uncultivated as farmers were redirected to work in the shipyards to construct ______.

Ricelands were replaced with cash crops like tobacco, sugar, and ______.

The local textile weaving industry was abandoned due to the availability of cheap textiles from ______ and India.

The girls attended finishing schools which trained them for their proper roles as women in society: sewing, embroidery, singing, dancing, playing the ______.

They became Spanish in speech, dress, manners, in their ______.

Most of the elite accepted and believed in the necessity of Spanish ______.

In 1884, tribute was replaced by the cedula (individual ______).

Each year a Filipino (18-60 yrs old) worked for 40 days. In the 19th century, shortened to 15 days. Polistas worked in groups building roads, bridges, churches, town halls, hospitals, and in ______ for the government.

The Indios observed the Bandala – planted crops according to the orders of the government and sells the harvest to the government too. Thus, the arrival of the Spaniards created a new period in Philippine ______.