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ESTABLISHMENT OF MANILA
Became capital of Islas Felipinas in 1572
Missionary work began to have its home
Missionaries were sent for conversion:
1. Franciscans (1577)
2. Jesuits (1580)
3. Dominicans (1580)
4. Recollects (1606)
Module 6 Raiders of Sulu Sea___________________________________________________
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Christianization stopped along the fringes of the
islands of Visayas and did not effectively reach the
island of Mindanao.
• This was due to the ferocity of the Mindanao • These Sultans from Maguindanao and Sulu
tribesmen who inflicted undaunted resistance were sustained by external help due to
against the colonizers. blood ties and previous alliances.
• 1591 – The Spanish colonial government • Sulu with Brunei and Maguindanao
decided to colonize Mindanao to force its with Tarnate.
subjection under the colonial government. • Sulu and Maguindanao Sultans were
• Colonizing means Christianizing the also receiving help and insinuations
natives. from the Dutch challenging the
• This precipitated the Moro wars Spanish colonial foothold in Manila.
which took different turns. • In 1602, another attack was mounted on
the coast of Southern Luzon which took
MORO WARS 1,400 captives.
• The religious color of the conflict
• The commercial desire of the Spaniards MORO RAIDS
• To control the trade from Sulu to • Reached several parts of Luzon:
other parts of Southeast Asia • Not so much of religious but piratical
• To make Sulu a base to launch the attacks where the captives were
invasion of Molucas. then sold as slaves.
• The colonization of Mindanao would • Fray Joaquin Martinez de Zuñiga’s account:
subject the inhabitants of the island • “The new province of Bataan
to the tribute system of Spain and included absorbed the towns of
thereby depriving the Rajas of their Mariveles, Cabcaben, Bagac and
political control of their territories. Morong, but because of these towns
were so small and had dwindled
MORO ATTACKS very much in population as a result
• In April 1596, Esteban Rodriguez de Figueroa of Moro invasions, it was necessary
(governor in Mindanao) was hacked on the to incorporate with Pampanga
head by a kampilan while in Cotabato. portion big enough to form a town
• The Sultan of Tarnate (an island in Molucas) altogether.
launched a pre-emptive attack in Spanish held
pueblo in the Visayas before the Spaniards To stop the pillaging and plunder of Christian
could invade them. towns…
• Jesuit missionaries advised Gov. Gen. Juan
Cerezo de Salamanca to build a fort in SPANISH ASSAULTS…
Zamboanga • The three tribes known as Balangigi-Samal,
• Gov. Gen. JUAN CEREZO DE SALAMANCA Ilanuns, and Sulu employed sea-faring
• Approved the plan in 1635 as a warriors known as Tausugs who were at the
staging assault to Sulu forefront of the raids.
• Fray Melchor de Vera (April 1635) – • They posed as fishermen and hid
a Jesuit engineer with 1,000 Visayan themselves on mangroves or wait on land
and 300 Spanish construction and without warning draw their swords at
workers, embarked on to the unsuspecting fishermen.
Zamboanga and began the • They bore holes on their palms where they
construction of the fort in June 1635 were slung and tied together, loaded on
• Gov. Gen. SEBASTIAN HORTADO DE their boats and the fishermen sold as slaves
CORCUERA in Southeast Asian communities.
• Relieved Gov. Gen. de Salamanca in
1635; Continued the building of
fortification
• Brought with him laborers to as far
as Cavite, Bohol, Cebu and Panay to
quicken the construction.
SPANISH ASSAULTS
• CAPT. NICOLAS GONZALES
• On December 25, 1636, waged an
assault on Datu Tagal, the brother of
Sultan Corralat (Kudarat) of
Maguindanao and killed Datu Tagal
in the Battle of Punta de Flechas )
• The hero of the Battle of
Punta de Flechas
• Mounted assault on the brother of
Datu Tagal to finally subdue Sultan
Corralat and conquer Maguindanao
in March 1636 .
Module 7 Propaganda in Art___________________________________________________
HISTORICAL CONTEXT