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The Philippines

The Philippines. Michelle T. Philippines. Prehistoric Aborigines. 50,000 B.C. – 30,000 B.C. While other civilizations were evolving in the Philippines, a combination of Afro-Asiatic and Austro-Aborigines came to the islands.

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The Philippines

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  1. The Philippines Michelle T.

  2. Philippines

  3. Prehistoric Aborigines • 50,000 B.C. – 30,000 B.C. • While other civilizations were evolving in the Philippines, a combination of Afro-Asiatic and Austro-Aborigines came to the islands. • Land bridges during this time made it possible to reach the islands. • Today, they are known as Aetas or Negritos.

  4. Aeta people Prehistoric Aborigines

  5. Proto-Malays & Duetero-Malays • 2,500 B.C. • Proto-Malays from Indonesia came upon the islands by way of boats, called balangays. • Duetero-Malays, those of either Indian, Chinese, Siamese, or Arabic and Asian ethnicities, came. • The wave of immigrants broughtknowledge of agriculture, building, writing, jewelry-making, and other skills.

  6. Proto-Malays & Duetero-Malays

  7. Filipino Writing • 14th Century • Baybayin is a syllabic Philippine writing system. • It originated from Brahmic (Indian) scripts. • The characters also resemble the Kavi script of Java and Indonesia

  8. Filipino Writing

  9. Filipino Writing OBAMA

  10. Islam • 1380-present day • Indian, Malay, Javanese, and Arab merchants and missionaries spread Islam to the archipelago. • An Islamic missionary, Karim ul’ Makhdum, was the man who brought Islam to the Philippines. • There has been a great division of Muslimsand Christians in the Philippines. Filipino Muslims, called Moro, currently struggle to breakaway from the Philippines with its own government

  11. Islam

  12. Spain in the Philippines • 1521-1898 A.D. • In 1521, explorer Ferdinand Magellan, under Spanish service, landed on the archipelago. • In honor of King Philip II of Spain, the islands were renamed the Philippines. • Spanish rule had a huge impact on Filipino culture. As the Westernculture of the Spanish took root, Philippine culture began obscured.

  13. Spain in the Philippines Spanish influence on clothing shown today.

  14. Battle of Manila • September 24- October 6, 1762 • The Britain and Spain were warring and Britain attacked Spanish colonized countries in Asia. • The Battle of Manila resulted in Britishvictory. • Though Britain had taken the Philippines through Manila, it failed to establish control over the whole country. • The Philippines was soon returned to Spain in the Treaty of Paris.

  15. Battle of Manila

  16. Katipunan • 1892 • Rebels in Manila founded the Katipunan, a revolutionary group. • The group had a goal to win independence from Spain. • The Katipunan had thousands of members that fought Spanish soldiers and led to the beginning of the Philippine Revolution.

  17. Katipunan

  18. Philippine Revolution • 1896-1898 • The Philippine Revolution began with nationalist rebels, the Katipunan. • Emilio Aguinaldo, guerilla general, led many revolts on Spanish soldiers. • Various battles took place between the rebels and the Spanish, but the Spanish were much stronger and better equipped.

  19. Philippine Revolution

  20. Philippine-American War • 1898-1901 • After the Spanish-American war, the Philippines thought that the UnitedStates had helped in the fight for independence. • Instead, the Spanishceded the Philippines to the U.S. • Warfare broke out between Americans and Filipinos wherein thousands of lives were lost until Emilio Aguinaldo was captured in 1901.

  21. Philippine-American War

  22. The First Philippine Republic • 1899-1901 • On June 12, 1898, Aguinaldo declared independence for the First Philippine Republic. • Aguinaldo was president of the Philippines. • The First Philippine Republic was dissolved when U.S. forces caughtAguinaldo in 1901.

  23. The First Philippine Republic

  24. The American Period • 1898-1946 • The U.S. brought improvements in health and education to the Philippines that Spain had failed to provide. • Economicdevelopment was stunted as a result of freetrade that the U.S. imposed. • In 1934, the Tydings-McDuffieAct gave the country independenceafter ten years of supervision.

  25. The American Period

  26. Jones Law • August 29, 1916 • U.S. citizens soon found that occupying the Philippines came to be expensive. • In 1916, the Jones Law was signed which was a step in slowlygiving the Philippines independence. • The law allowed the Philippines to have a Senate and a House of Representatives like the U.S. legislature.

  27. Jones Law

  28. Japanese Occupation • 1942-1945 • World War II presented a delay in the ten year transition period to independence for the Philippines. • The last Filipino-American stronghold, Corrigedor, collapsed in 1942—the Japanese then had control of the Philippines. • American General MacArthur in 1944 and war raged against Japanese occupation. The Japanese surrendered in 1945 and the Manila was left the 2nd most ruined city of WWII.

  29. Japanese Occupation

  30. Philippine Independence • July 4, 1946 • The U.S. had decided to continue with plans to let the Philippines have independence. • In addition to heavy ties of the economy to the U.S., the Philippines faced massive destruction after WWII. • The country did not have proper leadership in government and corruption soon ran through.

  31. President Roxas Philippine Independence

  32. Philippine Trade Act • 1946 • The Philippine Trade Act, or the Bell Trade Act of 1946 set rules for the newly independent country. • The Philippine peso would be tied to the U.S. dollar. • The Philippine Constitution would grant the U.S. equal access to the country’s natural resources. • The act called for free trade for the U.S. and that the U.S. could import goods free of import duties.

  33. FDR signing the Constitution of the Philippines Philippine Trade Act

  34. Works Consulted “Baybayin- The Ancient Script of the Philippines.” mts.net. 14 Jun 2008. 1 Feb 2009. <http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/bayeng1.htm> “Philippines.” Encyclopedia of Asian History. 4 vols. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988. Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MIL Galte. http://galente.galegroup.com/servlet/History/. “Philippines.” U.S. Department of State. Oct 2008. 2 Feb 2009. <http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/2794.htm> “Philippines.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. 3 Feb 2009. 1 Feb 2009. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines> “Timeline of Philppine History.” Philippine Portal: Your Gateway to the Islands. 2009. 1 Feb 2009. <http://www.philippine-portal.com/history/timeline.html>

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