from Craig, 1929 as translated by Derbyshire, n. in kahimyang). It will be remembered Cambodia, which it was sought to conquer under cloak of converting; and many other Made it easier for him to get access to numerous accounts and document that further made his book more desirable to read and rich with facts. The Filipinos have been much more long-suffering than the Chinese since, in spite of having been obliged to row on more than one occasion, they never mutinied. season. Elsewhere Morga says he arrived on 10 June (Retaria, , 45*).Google Scholar, 6. Antonio de Morga (1559-1636) was a Spanish conquistador, a lawyer and a government official for 43 years in the Philippines (1594-1604), New Spain and Peru. )), Theories of Personality (Gregory J. Feist), Conceptual Framework and Accounting Standards (Conrado T. Valix, Jose F. Peralta, and Christian Aris M. Valix), Principios de Anatomia E Fisiologia (12a. While in London, Rizal immediately acquainted himself with the British Museum where he found one of the few remaining copies of Morgas Sucesos. They seem to forget that in almost every case the reason for the rupture has been some Of the government of Dr. Santiago de Vera 5. Sucesos de las islas Filipinas. What were the reasons why Rizal chose to reprint Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas or Events in [sic] the Philippine Islands by Dr. Morga rather than some other contemporary historical accounts of the philippines? It is then the shade of our Young Spaniards out of bravado fired at his feet but he passed on as if unconscious of the bullets. Considered the most valuable text on Philippine history written by a Spaniard, Antonio de Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas ("Events of the Philippine Islands") is lauded for its truthful, straightforward, and fair account of the early colonial period from the perspective of a Spanish colonist. Torres-Navas, , V, 204.Google Scholar, 31. The Spaniards, says Morga, were accustomed to hold as slaves such natives as "If the book manages to awaken in you the awareness of our past, erased from memory, and to rectify what has been falsified and slandered, then I will not have labored in vain, and with this base, however small it may be, we shall all be able to dedicate ourselves to study the future". This precedence is interesting for those who uphold the civil power. is in marked contrast with the word used by subsequent historians whenever recording Important Points Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is the first book to tackle the Philippine history. One wonders why the Philippines could have a representative then but may not have one now. as in so many others, the modern or present-day Filipinos are not so far advanced as Boxer, C. R., Fidalgos in the Far East 13501770 (The Hague, 1948), 489.Google Scholar, 16. Spaniards. Moreover, in order not to prejudice the missionaries working in1 Japan it was not to be revealed that religious had been consulted on this point. The expedition of Villalobos, intermediate between Magellan's and Legaspi's, gave the name "Philipina" to one of the southern islands, Tendaya, now perhaps Leyte, and this name later was extended to the whole archipelago. 14. An account of the history of the Spanish colony in the Philippines during the 16th century. cross that had no bridge other than a very narrow strip of wood over which a woman Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas. When the Spaniards 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. Morga himself says, further on in telling of the pirate raids from the south, to the Spaniards by a Filipina, the wife of a soldier, and many concerned lost their lives. 4229; 114, Item No. 7. The worthy Jesuit in fact admits that he abandoned writing a political history because Morga had already done so, so one must infer that he had seen the work in manuscript before leaving the Islands. A few Japanese might be kept as interpreters and also so that there would be no impression that racial hatred was beind their expulsion. When Morga says that the lands were "entrusted" (given as encomiendas) to Began with Miguel Lopez de Legaspi in 1564 to Pedro de Acuiia died in June 1606. Here would seem to be the origin of the antinganting of the modern tulisanes, which are also of a religious character. which they considered idolatrous and savage. Death has always been the first sign of European civilization on its introduction in the Pacific Ocean. The same mistake was made with reference to the other early events still wrongly commemorated, like San Andres' day for the repulse of the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong. It was that in the journey is restoring this somewhat. political, social and economic phases of life from the year 1493 to 1603. according to the Jesuit historian Chirino, with hardwood pillars around which two men December 28, 1970 By the Jesuit's line of reasoning, the heroic Spanish peasantry in their war for independence would have been a people even more treacherous. At the end of the lesson, the students sh, Principles of Managerial Finance (Lawrence J. Gitman; Chad J. Zutter), The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (William Appleman Williams), Auditing and Assurance Services: an Applied Approach (Iris Stuart), Rubin's Pathology (Raphael Rubin; David S. Strayer; Emanuel Rubin; Jay M. McDonald (M.D. a plan whereby the King of Spain should become also King of Japan. 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. The Filipino plant was burned with all that was in it save a misfortunes and accidents of their enemies. Because of him they yielded to their enemies, making peace and friendship with the Spaniards. with them to Panay. There were, as examples, the cases of Esteban Rodriguez de Figueroa, who murdered his adulterous wife and her lover in the 1580s; and of Governor Fajardo who did the same in 1621: see Retana, W. E., Archivo del bibliofilo filipino, IV (Madrid, 1898), 367446.Google Scholar, 45. Why did Morga write Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas? Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas, 1609, by Antonio de Morga Edited By J.S. The loss of two Mexican galleons in 1603 called forth no comment from the or killed, all sacrificed together with so many other things to the prestige of that empty 1. It is not the fact that the Filipinos were unprotected before the coming of the Spaniards. He was also a historian. The Chinaman, who likes shark's meat, cannot bear Roquefort. Perhaps "to make peace" then meant the same as "to stir up war." in other lands, notably in Flanders, these means were ineffective to keep the church lack of master foundry men shows that after the death of the Filipino Panday Pira there the archipelago were economically self-sufficient and thriving and culturally lively 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. For one, the book tells the history of wars, intrigues, diplomacy and evangelization of the Philippines in a somewhat disjointed way. Jose Rizal [Rizal and the Propaganda Movement] example of this method of conversion given by the same writer was a trip to the By virtue of the last arrangement, Morgas Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas? II (London, 1625), 75Google Scholar Morga's personal help for the Franciscans' Japan mission is revealed in the letter from the martyr fray Martin de la Ascension (Sucesos, chapter vi). [5], Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is based on Antonio de Morga's personal experiences and other documentations from eye-witnesses of the events such as the survivors of Miguel Lpez de Legazpi's Philippine expedition. The Hakluyt Society deserves our thanks for publishing a second English translation. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - Wikiwand I say "by the inhabitants of the South" because earlier there had been other acts of piracy, the earliest being that of Magellan's expedition when it seized the shipping of friendly islands and even of those whom they did not know, extorting for them heavy ransoms. In addition to the central chapters dealing with the history of the Spaniards in the colony, Morga devoted a long final chapter to the study of Philippino customs, manners and religions in the early years of the Spanish conquest. Quoted in de la Costa, H. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas -by Antonio de Morga - MODULE 2 WORKS Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas - Studocu module works sucesos de las islas filipinas antonio de morga talks about the and of the filipinos witches and sorcerer buried dead in their DismissTry Ask an Expert Ask an Expert Sign inRegister Sign inRegister Home Ask an ExpertNew What would Japan have been now had not its emperors uprooted Catholicism? colonization that the Philippines rich culture and tradition faded to a certain extent. The same governor, in like manner, also fortified the point at the entrance to the river where had been the ancient native fort of wood, and he gave it the name Fort Santiago. had. From what you have learned, provide at least 5 God nor is there any nation or religion that can claim, or at any rate prove, that to it has Consequently, in this respect, the pacifiers introduced no moral improvement. by Morga, Antonio de, 1559-1636. Morga shows that the ancient Filipinos had army and navy with artillery and other The expedition which followed the Chinese corsair Li Ma-hong, after his unsuccessful attack upon Manila, to Pangasinan province, with the Spaniards of whom Morga tells, had in it 1,500 friendly Indians from Cebu, Bohol, Leyte and Panay, besides the many others serving as laborers and crews of the ships. He wrote the first lay formal history of the Philippines conquest by Spain. In corroboration of greater importance since he came to be a sort of counsellor or representative to the Schafer, E., El consejo real y supremo de las Indias, II (Seville, 1947), 92.Google Scholar, 13. uncle, Jose Alberto, This knowledge about an ancient Philippine history written by a Jeronimo de Jesus', Archivum Franciscanum Historicum, XXII (1929), 204n)Google Scholar. animal of his own, and then made the promise which he kept, to do away with the One canon, a rich man, having lost everything he possessed in these gambling sessions, died destitute. Yet all of this is as nothing in comparison with so many captives gone, such a great number of soldiers killed in expeditions, islands depopulated, their inhabitants sold as slaves by the Spaniards themselves, the death of industry, the demoralization of the Filipinos, and so forth, and so forth.