SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS (GE-6 REPORT) - YouTube Morgas view on Filipino culture. All these because of Islands. I say "by the inhabitants It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the Spaniards. Of the government of Don Gonzalo Ronquillo de Peiialosa 4. colonization that the Philippines rich culture and tradition faded to a certain extent. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga As a lawyer, it is obvious that he would hardly fail to seek such evidence. Rizal anotated Morga's Sucesos and published it in 1890. joined by other Filipinos in Pangasinan. One canon, a rich man, having lost everything he possessed in these gambling sessions, died destitute. The discovery, conquest and conversion cost Spanish blood but still more Filipino His honesty and No one has a monopoly of the true As to the day of the date, the Spaniards then, having come following the course of the sun, were some sixteen hours later than Europe. Figueroa's soldiers who had died in battle. While Japan was preparing to invade the Philippines, these islands were sending expeditions to Tonquin and Cambodia, leaving the homeland helpless even against the undisciplined hordes from the South, so obsessed were the Spaniards with the idea of making conquests. For instance, on page 248, Morga describes the culinary art of the ancient Filipinos by recording, they prefer to eat salt fish which begin to decompose and smell. Rizals footnote explains, This is another preoccupation of the Spaniards who, like any other nation in that matter of food, loathe that to which they are not accustomed or is unknown to themthe fish that Morga mentions does not taste better when it is beginning to rot; all on the contrary, it is bagoong and all those who have eaten it and tasted it know it is not or ought to be rotten.. The In the alleged victory of Morga over the Dutch ships, the latter found upon the bodies of five Spaniards, who lost their lives in that combat, little silver boxes filled with prayers and invocations to the saints. God nor is there any nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that to it has hasContentIssue true, Copyright The National University of Singapore 1969, Antonio De Morga and his Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0217781100005081, Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. They had musk perfume, and stores of provisions, he took 150 prisoners. scows and coasters. "Otherwise, says Gaspar de San Agustin, there would have been no fruit of the Evangelic Doctrine gathered, for the infidels wanted to kill the Friars who came to preach to them." Malaga," Spain's foundry. Legaspi's grandson, Salcedo, called the Hernando Cortez of the Philippines, was the "conqueror's" intelligent right arm and the hero of the "conquest." Publication date 1609 Topics Philippines -- History -- 1521-1812, Philippines -- Description and travel Publisher En Mexico. Consequently, in this respect, the pacifiers introduced no moral improvement. This book Morga wanted to chronicle the deeds achieved by the Spaniards in the discovery, conquest and conversion of the Filipinas Islands. Given this claim, Rizal argued that the conversion and conquest were not as widespread as portrayed because the missionaries were only successful in conquering apportion of the population of certain islands.. of the funeral of Governor Dasmarias' predecessor, Governor Ronquillo, was made, She came from Uceda and was connected with powerful Sandoval family. Now it is known that Magellan was mistaken when he represented to the King of Spain that the Molucca Islands were within the limits assigned by the Pope to the Spaniards. It is an encouragement to banditry thus to make easy its getting booty. Also, chronicles by Spanish colonial officials or the non religious were rare, making Morga, for over two centuries, the only nonspiritual general history of the Philippines in print. an admiral's turning in a report of his "discovery" of the Solomon islands though he About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright . These traditions were almost completely lost as well as the mythology and the [7], Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. Moreover, as he tells us himself, survivors from Legazpi's expedition were still alive while he was preparing his book in Manila, and these too he could consult. The early conspiracy of the Manila and Pampangan former chiefs was revealed The Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited and ruined by the Spanish civilization 3. The artillery cast for the new stone fort in Manila, says Morga, was by the hand of an ancient Filipino. The app supplies readers with the freedom to access their materials anywhere at any time and the ability to customize preferences like text size, font type, page color, and more. Therefore it was not for religion that they were converting the infidels! Filipinos were self-sustaining and customarily spirited - it was because of the Spanish Castro, , Osario, 171Google Scholar; Phelan, , Quito, 184).Google Scholar. Antonio Morga. Their prized krises and kampilans for their magnificent temper are worthy of admiration and some of them are richly damascened. As to the mercenary social evil, that is worldwide and there is no nation that can 'throw the first stone' at any other. Morga's views upon the failure of Governor Pedro de Acunia's ambitious expedition against the Moros unhappily still apply for the same conditions yet exist. Sumatra. were, by reason of their armor, invulnerable so far as rude Indians were concerned. (Events in the Philippine Islands) in 1609 after being reassigned to Mexico. His extensive annotations are no less than 639 items or almost two annotations for every page, commenting even on Morgas typographical errors. For him, the native populations of the Filipinos were self-sustaining and customarily spirited -it was because of the Spanish colonization that the Philippines rich culture and tradition faded to a certain extent. absolute monarch of that epoch. In this difficult art of ironworking, as in so many others, the modern or present-day Filipinos are not so far advanced as were their ancestors. themselves. In this difficult art of ironworking, Her zamanki yerlerde hibir eletiri bulamadk. Morga's Still there are Mahometans, the Moros, in the southern islands, and negritos, igorots resisted conversion or did not want it may have been true of the civilized natives. truth it is this characteristic that marked him as a great historian. cost of their native land. an ancient Filipino. The original book was rare B. Morga was a layman not a religious chroniclers C. More sympathetic to the indios D. Morga was not only an eyewitness but also a major in the events he narrated. Nowadays this industry is reduced to small craft, It visualizes the image of the country in the hands of the colonizers and the policies of the Spaniards regarding trade. (This is a veiled allusion to the old Latin saying of Romans, often quoted by Spaniard's, that they made a desert, calling it making peace. Of the native Manila rulers at the coming of the Spaniards, Raja Soliman was called "Rahang mura", or young king, in distinction from the old king, "Rahang matanda". Chapter 6 Annotation of Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (1926), 147Google Scholar. Despite the colonizers claim that they were solely responsible for refining the The original title of the manuscript was Descubrimiento, conquista, pacification y poplacion de las Islas Philipinas (Retana, 172*. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. Enormous indeed would the benefits which that sacred civilization brought to the archipelago have to be in order to counterbalance so heavy a-cost. Their general, according to Argensola, was the That is, he knew how to cast cannon even before the coming of the Spaniards, hence he was distinguished as 4"ancient." In Morga's time, the Philippines exported silk to Japan whence now comes the best quality of that merchandise. Spain's possessing herself of a province, that she pacified it. These were chanted on voyages in cadence with the rowing, or at festivals, or funerals, or wherever there happened to be any considerable gatherings. His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia, Taiwan, the Moluccas, Marianas and other Pacific islands. In matters of food, each is nauseated with what he is unaccustomed to or doesn't know is eatable. Retana, 174*; see also Retana, 's edition of Martinez de Zuriga's Estadismo de las Islas Filipinos, II (Madrid, 1893), 278*.Google Scholar, 49. Rizal reluctantly chose to annotate Morga's book over some other early Spanis accounts. after death to "Kalualhatian," the abode of the spirit, there was a dangerous river to that previous to the Spanish domination the islands had arms and defended Antonio De Morga and his Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas these same Indians were defenseless against the balls from their muskets. (This is a veiled allusion to the old Latin saying Father Chirino's work, printed at Rome in Add a meaning Add SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS details Phonetic spelling of SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS Add phonetic spelling Synonyms for SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS Add synonyms judge or oidor. Magellan's transferring from the service of his own king to employment under the for that term of reproach is not apparent. Total loading time: 0 There is a discussion of the moral scruples aroused in some Spaniards by the killing and pillaging in 1603 in Diego de Bobadilla, SJ., Casos morales resueltos, ff. COMPARE AND CONTRAST. Boxer, C. R., Some Aspects of Spanish Historical Writing on the Philippines', in Hall, D. G. E., ed., Historians of South East Asia (London, 1961), 2013Google Scholar. (1971). Spaniards. It was Dr. Blumentritt, a knowledgeable Filipinologist, who recommended Dr. Antonio Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, which, according to many scholars, had an honest description of the Philippine situation during the Spanish period. and zealous missionaries determined to wipe out native beliefs and cultural practices, The leaders bore themselves bravely for Argensola writes that in the assault on Ternate, "No officer, Spaniard or Indian, went unscathed.". uncle, Jose Alberto, This knowledge about an ancient Philippine history written by a When the English freebooter Cavendish captured the Mexican galleon Santa Ana, with 122,000 gold pesos, a great quantity of rich textiles-silks, satins and damask, musk perfume, and stores of provisions, he took 150 prisoners. To entrust a province was then as if it were said that it was turned over to sack, abandoned to the cruelty and covetousness of the encomendero, to judge from the way these gentry misbehaved. Yet to the simple savages the act had nothing wrong in it but was done with the same naturalness that civilized people hunt, fish, and subjugate people that are weak or ill-armed. Discuss the points of Rizal in saying that the native populations in the Philippines. Dr. Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - SlideShare It may be so, but what about the enormous sum of gold which was taken from the islands in the early years of Spanish rule, of the tributes collected by the encomenderos, of the nine million dollars yearly collected to pay the military, expenses of the employees, diplomatic agents, corporations and the like, charged to the Philippines, with salaries paid out of the Philippine treasury not only for those who come to the Philippines but also for those who leave, to some who never have been and never will be in the islands, as well as to others who have nothing to do with them. following are excerpts from Rizal's annotations to inspire young Filipinos of today (Taken The Moriscos, or converted Moors, living on in Spain were suspected of being unreliable, and in 1609, the year of the publication of the Sucesos, they were expelled from the country; see Lynch, J., Spain under the Habsburgs, I (London, 1964), 1218Google Scholar. Sucesos de las islas filipinas - Duke University Press The raid by Datus Sali and Silonga of Mindanao, in 1599 with 50 sailing vessels He was respectable enough to have a book dedicated to him: e.g. What do you think is the meaning of Rizals statement: If the book (Sucesos) succeeds to awaken your consciousness of our past, already effaced from your memory, and to rectify what has been falsified and slandered, then I have not worked in vain, and with this as a basis, however small it may be, we shall be able to study the future? His book, published in 1609, ranges more widely than its title suggests since the Spanish were also active in China, Japan, Southeast Asia . Ancient traditions ascribe the origin of the Malay Filipinos to the island of little by little, they (Filipinos) lost their old traditions, the mementoes of their past; they gave up their writing, their songs, their poems, their laws, in order to learn other doctrines which they did not understand, another morality, another aesthetics, different from those inspired by their climate and their manner of thinking. This brief biography of Morga is based on the introduction to the superb edition of the Sucesos published by W. E. Retana in 1909; I have also used the excellent study of Morga's professional career in Phelan, J. L.'s Kingdom of Quito (Wisconsin, 1967).Google Scholar. Nevertheless in other lands, notably in Flanders, these means were ineffective to keep the church unchanged, or to maintain its supremacy, or even to hold its subjects. Morgas work, (Austin Craig). But It was Ubal. You have learned the differences between Rizal and Morgas view on Filipino culture. The peaceful country folk are deprived of arms and thus made unable to defend themselves against the bandits, or tulisanes, which the government cannot restrain. Of the first discoveries of the Eastern islands 2. The word "en trust," like A Jesuit writer calls him a traitor though the justification for that term of reproach is not apparent. But imagine how difficult it was to search for information during those 4154; 91, Item No. . The importation of Spanish civilization did not necessarily, and certainly not in all spheres of interest, improved the state of the Philippines. possessions to the Indians of his encomienda. Figueroa. islands.. It may be so, but what about the Colin, , III, 32 ffGoogle Scholar. They had with them 400 Tagalogs and Pampangans. eatable. The Book of Dr. Antonio de Morga, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, was important because it described the events in 1493-1603, and it was a clear account of the history of the islands. From what you have learned, provide at least 5 differences on their descriptions of the Filipino culture and write it down using the table below. The conversions by the Spaniards were not as general as their historians claim. Two days previously he had given a banquet, slaying for it a beef animal of his own, and then made the promise which he kept, to do away with the leader of the Spanish invaders. The loss of two Mexican galleons in 1603 called forth no comment from the