Category: History - Other
Purpose of this Book.--This book has been written for the young men and young women of the Philippines. It is intended to introduce them into the history of their own island country. The subject of Philippine history is much broader and more splendid than the size and characte...
Beginning of a New Era.--With the passing of the Spanish sovereignty to the Americans, a new era began in the Philippines. Already the old Spanish rule seems so far removed that...
8. CHAPTER VIII.Condition of the Archipelago at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century.--The Spanish Rule Completely Established.--At the close of the sixteenth century the Spaniards had been...
7. CHAPTER VII.Cause of Settlement and Conquest of the Philippines.--The previous Spanish expeditions whose misfortunes have been narrated, seemed to have proved to the Court of Spain that the...
12. CHAPTER XII.Progress during the Last Half-Century of Spanish Rule.--We have now come to the last half-century and to the last phase of Spanish rule. In many respects this period was one of...
11. CHAPTER XI.The New Philosophy of the Eighteenth Century.--The middle of the eighteenth century in Europe was a time when ideas were greatly liberalized. A philosophy became current which p...
4. CHAPTER IV.An Eastern Passage to India.--The Portuguese.--We have seen in the last chapter how Venice held a monopoly of the only trading-route with the Far East. Some new way of reaching...
9. CHAPTER IX.Loss of the Naval Power of Spain and Portugal.--The seizure of Portugal by Philip II. in 1580 was disastrous in its consequences to both Portugal and Spain. For Portugal it was...
10. CHAPTER X.Political Decline of the Philippines.--For the hundred years succeeding the abandonment of the Moluccas, the Philippines lost all political significance as a colony. From almost...
5. CHAPTER V.Position of Tribes.--On the arrival of the Spaniards, the population of the Philippines seems to have been distributed by tribes in much the same manner as at present. Then, as...
3. CHAPTER III.The Mediæval Period in Europe.--Length of the Middle Age.--By the Middle Ages we mean the centuries between 500 and 1300 A.D. This period begins with the fall of the Roman Empir...
1. CHAPTER I.Purpose of this Book.--This book has been written for the young men and young women of the Philippines. It is intended to introduce them into the history of their own island cou...
6. CHAPTER VI.History of the Philippines as a Part of the History of the Spanish Colonies.--We have already seen how the Philippines were discovered by Magellan in his search for the Spice Is...
2. CHAPTER II.The Study of Ethnology.--The study of races and peoples forms a separate science from history, and is known as ethnology, or the science of races. Ethnology informs us how and w...