Antonio Pigafetta

First Voyage Around the World

Historical Context:
One of the benefits that the Europeans gained from the crusades was the discovery of some products
that were not available in their home country. These included porcelain, silk, incense, herbs, perfumes,
fabrics, carpets, spices and other oriental products.

Asian goods reached in Europe either via the Silk Road or the Arabian Italian trade route. In 1453 forced
European kingdoms to look for ways to purchase spices directly from the source. They decided to
explore the oceans to look for a way to the famed Spice Islands.

Prince henry the navigator of Portugal put up a maritime school trained sailors who would later discover
an eastern sea route going to the Spice Islands. This route enabled them to trade directly with the
producers of spices and other oriental goods. This led to the discovery of many territories previously
unknown to the Europeans.

One of its primary destinations was to search for another oceanic way to the Spice island that would
not disregard Spain's treaty with Portugal. The endeavor endured common and man-made difficulties
and out of the five ships just three arrived at the Philippines were advertise with friendliness and warm
trades of products. Lapu, the chieftain of Mactan, wouldn't exchange with the Spaniards and when
Magellan took in this, he battled with him. At the point when the survivors of the came back to the
cebu, they were treacherously assaulted by their previous allies.

On September 7, 1522, Elcano and 17 survivors touched base in spain abroad the ship Victoria. One of
them Is Antonio Figgafetta, the collaborator of Magellan who kept a diary that progressed toward
becoming wellspring of what we think about the Spaniards and the Filipinos.

Relevance:
Pigafetta’s chronicle contributed immensely to European historiography as it preserved and
popularized the achievements of the Magellan Elcano expedition. If pigafetta did not survive did not
survive the journey, we would have very little knowledge of Magellan’s contributions on geography,
navigation, and history. they confirmed that the portugese route is not the way to the Spice islands.
They proved the theory that one can go to the east by sailing west. All these discoveries altered the
European map of the world resulted in the inclusion of new territories in their world view.

CUSTOM OF THE TAGALOGS

 Juan de Plasencia

Historical Context:
During the primary century of Spanish rule, the pioneer government experienced issues in running
nearby legislative issues in light of the set number of Spaniards who needed to live outside the
Intramuros. This circumstance constrained Spanish authorities to enable Filipinos to hold the situation
of gobernadorcillo. To guarantee that the gobernadorcillos would stay faithful to the Crown. the
ministers were told to supervise and monitor the activity of the former. They supervised the election
of the local executives, helped in the gathering of taxes, were immediate engaged with teaching the
youth, and other civic obligations.

in 1589, if we are to put socio-political context into the text – first, the issue of authorship; second,
the discourse of power in colonial writing; and third, the logic of binarism or the Occident-Other
dichotomy. These are interrelated threads that probably constitute major segments of colonial
historical writing in the Philippines.

Relevance:

Plasencia's Customs of the tagalogs is a well known essential source as it clearly depicts the lifestyle of
the Filipinos before Spanish and Christian impacts. Political scienctists, think that its helpful on the
grounds that it contains data about the social classes, political stratifiscations, and legitimate
arrangement of the tagalog area. A large number of what we think about the obligations and duties of
the datu, maharlika,and alipin originated from plasencias account.

Priests and missionaries also read plasencia’s customs of the tagalogs and doctorina christiana
because ther contain insights that can help and inspire them to become effective evangelizers. They
also learned from plasencia that preaching should be accompanies with reading materials that
contain basic elements of faith.
 THE KARTILYA
OF THE KATIPUNAN
Historical Context:

The main move towards independece begin on July 7, 1892 when the Katipunan was Established by
Andres Bonifacio. This was an result of the disappointment of the Reform development in Spain in
which Filipinos endeavored to request changes for the Philippines from Spanish government.

The kataastaasang kagalang-galangan katipunan ng mga anak ng bayan or KKK was a progressive
society that embraced autonomy and freemdom for the Philippines through the force of arms. Its goal
was partition of the Philippines from spain and, when freedom of the Filipinos as their very own
residents country once autonomy accomplished.

The recruitment procedure of the katipunan pursued masonic initiation customs while its structure
was said to be founded on Rizal's prematurely ended reformist association the La Liga Filipina.
Katipunan guidelines and its lessons that the estimation of the love for one's nation and individual
Filipinos

Relevance:

The current relevance of the kartilya lies in the fact that is it established not only the rules for the
members of the organizations but the principles of the citezens of a nation once independence had
been achieved. Through written in the 19th century, the kartilya is a significant to the lives of modern
Filipinos as it reads like a simple creed for living in the light of the many changes occurring at present.