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Showing posts with label Ferdinand Magellan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ferdinand Magellan. Show all posts

Thursday, September 2, 2021

The arrival of Magellan in the Philippines

 

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Dayang C Marikit

I’m a Philippine history professor. I'm mainly focused on promoting and educating people about the pre-colonial period. 

I would like to inform people that “nothing is set in stone” because we are constantly gathering information and learning about our history, somethings may change in the future, but for now the things that I publish are the things that we currently perceive to “know about.”


On the macro level Magellan's expedition is important to global history, but on the micro level, he didn't have much of an effect on the locals. He came here, got to know some people and then he got killed, so he didn't affect much of the local politics and culture. He facilitated some religious conversations, but after he died, the expedition team left and the natives reverted back of their old spiritual beliefs… (They were just days into being Catholic, so I highly doubt that they truly understood how Catholicism was practiced… and not to mention the language barrier.)

If Magellan didn’t arrive, they would have most likely “stayed the way they were”… a society based on alliances.



  • They ate pork, fish, chicken and vegetables on gold and porcelain platters… they also drank locally made wine.
  • This self-proclaimed “Anglophile” is accusing others of “revisionism” when he is the only revisionist here, and on top of that, he can’t even spell “cannibalism” properly.