... territory. A government was established. This government would reign the country for the next 333 years and would create a tremendous impact on the Philippine culture, intellect, emotion and history. The name "Filipinas" indicated that these were all of actuality. Spain translated the traditional Filipino form of barangay kingdoms ruled by datus and rahas to the European form of monarchic dominion wherein the ... king is the absolute monarch above all and below him are his officials and branches of his sovereign. Filipinas was a part of his colony and he appointed a governor general as ...

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... Philippine Sea to the east, the Celebes Sea to the south, and the South China Sea to the west and north. During the Spanish rule, the archipelago was named Islas Filipinas, or Philippine Islands, in honor of Philip II of Spain. Filipino is the term for the citizens of the country and originated when lowland Christians referred to themselves as "Filipinos ... ...

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... their language. Writing. Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, most Filipinos were already capable of reading and writing. Father Pedro Chirino wrote in his book Relacion de las Islas Filipinas (1602), " there is scarcely anybody who cannot read and write in letters prior to the island of Manila."" Most well-known of the scripts used then was the alibata (also ... ...

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