UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS- LEGAZPI

JENNY VEE ISIDORO

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019
BS-ARCHITECTURE V SOC SCI 103

1. Antonio Pigafetta’s Magellan’s voyage around the world.

Antonio Pigafetta is an Italian seafarer and geographer. On august 1519, five ship departed
from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to
the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of
one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. The First Voyage
around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the
circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and
students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies. Expertly presented and
handsomely illustrated, this edition of Pigafetta's classic travelogue is sure to enlighten new
readers and invigorate the imagination as the story has done since it first appeared.

2. Customs of the Tagalog by Fr. Juan de Plasenzia.

Fr. Juan de Plasenzia born to the illustrious family of Portocarreros in Plasensia in the region
of Extremadura, Spain in the early 16th century one of the seven children of Pedro Portocarrero,
a captain of a Spanish schooner. Juan de Plasencia grew up during the period known as the Siglo
de Oro, a Golden Age when arts and literature flourished in many parts of Spain, among them
his native Extremadura Fray Joan de Puerto Carrero, del convento de Villanueva de la Serena
was his real name. The unit of government is called Barangay ruled by a chieftain, and consist of
30 to 100 families together with their relatives and slaves and the chieftain’s executive function
includes implementing laws, ensuring order and giving protection to his subject disputes
between individuals were settled by a court made up of the chieftain and council of elders.
Major languages are Tagalog, Ilocano, Pangasinan, Pangpangan, Sugbuhanon, Hiligaynon,
Magindanaw and Samarnon this language is originated from the Malayo-Polenisian language.
System of writing of the alphabets consisted of 3 vowels and 14 consonants called Baybayi they
used tap of tress as ink and pointed stick as pencil they wrote on large plant leaves, bark of a
tree or bamboo tubes.

3. Kartilya ng katipunan by Emilio Jacinto.

The Kartilya comprises thirteen lessons that detail not only the vision of the Katipunan, but
the vision for an egalitarian and morally sound Filipino nation. For the Katipunan leadership,
such as Emilio Jacinto, the ideas of Right and Light, Katwiran and Kaliwanagan, were of utmost
importance. They saw themselves as not only as inheritors of the Age of Enlightenment, but
 intellectual and moral revolutionaries fighting to create and define a nation and culture that was
post-Enlightenment that was no longer shackled by the ideological and colonial restraints of the
West, but a country that adopted and merged the best of Spain, the United States, France, and
our own unique culture and society, in support of being Filipino. Changing the way people
thought and acted was paramount to the early Katipuñeros; they understand that was the only
way to truly change the Philippines for the better. Play-acting as and implicitly referencing the
Katipunan without fully understanding their political and moral context and goals essentially
degrades the breadth of what they were trying to achieve.

4. Declaration of independency of the Filipino people by Emilio Aguinaldo.

The Philippine Declaration of Independence occurred in Kawit, Cavite on 12 June 1898

where Filipino revolutionary forces under General Emilio Aguinaldo proclaimed the sovereignty
and independence of the Philippine islands from Spanish colonization after the latter was
defeated at the Battle of Manila Bay on 1 May 1898 during the Spanish-American War. It was
declared a national holiday and was witnessed by thousands of people who gathered in Kawit to
witness the historic event. The declaration, however, was not recognized by the United States or
Spain, as the Spanish government ceded the Philippines (and other Spanish colonial territories)
to the United States in the 1898 Treaty of Paris signed on 10 December 1898 in consideration
for an indemnity for Spanish expenses and assets lost. The Act of the Declaration of
Independence was prepared and written by Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista in Spanish, who also
read the said declaration. The Philippine Declaration was signed by ninety-eight persons, among
them an American army officer who witnessed the proclamation.