LIBED, APRIL JOELYN A.

BSNED 2 -B

THE EVOLUTION OF PHILIPPINE

POLITICS, GOVERNMENT, AND
GOVERNANCE

Ancient Filipino
The datu exercised
The government was
patriarchal in form. all functions of
The unit

of Each barangay

was government.

He was
government governed by a datu,

was the

the executive,
barangay, who gained position

by inheritance,

and the
legislative
settlement of about

wisdom,
physical judge in

times of
30 to 100
families.

The barangays were

prowess or
wealth.

peace and the

independent of
commander in chief
each other.
in times of war.

Philippines Under Colonial Rule

a. The Magellan Expedition

The Spanish colonial period of the
Philippines began when explorer
Ferdinand Magellan came to the islands
in 1521 and claimed it as a colony for
the Spanish Empire. The period lasted
until the Philippine Revolution in 1898.

b. The Battle of c. The Villalobos and

Mactan
.The Battle of Mactan was a
fierce clash fought in the
Philippines on 27 April 1521.
Legazpi Expeditions
Expedition to the Philippine Islands. López de
Villalobos was commissioned in 1541 by the
Viceroy of New Spain, Antonio de Mendoza,
who was the first colonial administrator in
the New World, to send an expedition to the
Islas del Poniente, meaning Islands of the
West, now known as the Philippines.

Philippine Under the Spanish Rule

Spanish rule brought most of what is The effects of colonization on the

now the Philippines into a single
unified administration. From 1565 to
1821, the Philippines was governed as
part of the Mexico-based Viceroyalty
of New Spain, later administered
from Madrid following the Mexican
War of Independence.
native populations in the New
World were mistreatment of the
natives, harsh labor for them, and
new ideas about religion for the
Spaniards. One negative effect
of colonization was the
colonizers mistreating the
natives.