I- ESSAY. Answer the following questions extesively as possible.

Your answer will be graded based on the

following.
 Thesis statement. Thesis is clear and well developed. The thesis identifies the question and evaluates the
relevance of the issue addressed in the essay prompt. (4pts)
 Analysis and supporting information. Uses relevant information and facts to effectively defend the thesis.
(2pts)
 Organization. Clearly organized with a logical structure that supports the thesis. Transitions are smooth. (2pts)
 Sentence Structure, Grammar, Mechanics, & Spelling. Sentences are well constructed and have varied
structure and length. No errors in grammar, mechanics, and/or spelling. (2pts)

1. What is the importance of studying history?

History informs understanding of the world, both past and present. This guide us to comprehend our minds about
our world history. It help us to develop a better understanding about our world, ourselves, the people in our
society, countries, and the citizens. As a student, by having this subject, exploring about history, It develop your
mind and soul in different cultures and beliefs of life such as the way how we act, things innovated and how it
develop to our society like religions, ethnic heritage, countries, and ancestry. As observed, History inspired us
about those historical stories that serve greatness which we can relate to ourselves.

2. Determine the factors that led to Magellan’s expedition in the Orient.

On October 21, He found the strait that he had been looking for. The Strait of Magellan, found close the tip of
South America, isolating Tierra del Fuego and the mainland territory. As it were three ships entered the section;
one had been destroyed and another forsaken. It took 38 days to explore the tricky strait, and when sea was
located at the other conclusion Magellan sobbed with joy. He was the primary European pilgrim to reach the
Pacific Sea from the Atlantic. His armada finished the westbound crossing of the sea in 99 days, crossing waters
so oddly calm that the sea was named “Pacific,” from the Latin word pacificus, meaning “tranquil.” By the
conclusion, the men were out of nourishment and chewed the calfskin parts to keep themselves alive.

On Walk 6, 1521, the undertaking landed at the island of Guam. After Magellan’s passing, the survivors, in two
ships, cruised on to the Moluccas and stacked the bodies with zest. One dispatch was unsuccessful they
returned across the Pacific. The other ship, the Victoria, continued west under the command of Juan Sebastian
de Elcano. The vessel sailed across the Indian Ocean, rounded the Cape of Good Hope, and arrived at the
Spanish port of Sanlúcar de Barrameda .

On September 6, 1522, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the globe. The Victoria then sailed up the
Guadalquivir River, reaching Seville a few days later.Elcano was later appointed to lead a fleet of seven ships on
another voyage to Moluccas on behalf of Emperor Charles V. He died of scurvy en route.

3. Argue why the chronicle of Pigafetta is believable to erase all doubts pertaining to the First Mass in the
Philippines.
 The most complete and dependable record of the Magellan undertaking into Philippine shores in 1521 is
that of Antonio Pigafetta which is considered as the main valid essential wellspring of reports on the
festival of the primary Christian Mass on Philippine soil. Limasawa is not the real that held the first mass
but in butuan.
4. Cite three inclusions of the Kartilya and attribute it to the attitude of the Filipinos today.

 Do not waste time: wealth can be recovered but not time lost.
o Time is gold. Every seconds count. We are just living temporarily in this world. Life has a lot of
something to offer. Don’t just live in despair. Learn how to manage your time and spend wisely.

 The prudent man is sparing in words and faithful in keeping secrets.

o Nowadays, People get into rush decision. Speaks without feeling and posting without thinking.
An Example, Those people against President Duterte spreading fake news. As a student,
President Duterte really did everything just to keep us safe and to survive this pandemic. Rules
and implementation is for the common good to all Filipinos.

 Defend the oppressed and fight the oppressor before the law or in the field

o We don’t have the same strengths but we Filipinos can help one another. We must choose to
fight for what is right and speak for the weak people who needs help and comfort .Fight those
people who keep on putting others down by oppressing them.

5. Cite a factor that you think contributed most in the rise of the Filipino nationalism and attribute it to the declaration
of Philippine Independence.

•Nationalism was very complicated in the Philippines because Filipinos actually do not know what they
wanted. For most, their calling for independence did not rise to the reforms. It emerged during the
revolution during the time of Bonifacio. The Spain's strategy to colonize a country is to divide and
conquer. By dividing the nation, you don't know the sentiments of other Filipinos. Additionally, they are
not allowed to say negativity against the Spanish government. Until such time, they don’t care about the
implementing guidelines since they are still practicing old fashioned. This is why people are blind
towards the government. Oppression is normal for lower class and friars are superior. Rise of
nationalism started (asking for reforms) within the Filipino priests. It was the priest who were the first
Filipinos to ask for equality with the Spaniards. They were the first because of the Spain's mission of
spreading Christianity. Some Filipinos were ordained priests to minister to the people based on the
Christian doctrine. Spaniards could not reject this principle, so they tried as much as possible to delay
the process. Filipinos and the Priests are equally receive education in Manila colleges and universities.
They receive degrees in theology and philosophy from these schools. Thus, they have the qualities of
becoming first leaders of the community.

6. Argue whether the treaty of Paris was an agreement to give full independence to the Filipinos
  Based on the Protocol of Peace signed on August 12, 1898, five representative from both parties were
appointed to meet in Paris to discuss the final peace terms between the Spain and the US. Which
Cushman Davis, Willian P. Frye, Whitelaw Reid, George Gray, and WIlliam R. Day are in the US and
Eugenio Montero Rios, Buenaventura Abarzuza, Jose de Garnica, Wenceslao Ramirez de Villa-Urrutia,

 General Rafael Cerero are in Spain. They met at Paris from October to December, 1898. They had long
discussion on legal points which both sides refused to give in. Finally, the American commissioners
served an ultimatum to the Spaniards who believed that Americans should be gracious in their hour of
victory. They asked for the whole Philippines. It was until the Spaniards finally agreed.

 On December 10, 1898, the Treaty of Paris was signed.

o Spain would receive $20M from the US as payment for the improvements in the Philippine colony.
o US granted the Spain rights to ship commodities to the Philippines for 10 years.

Share your thoughts in these hypothetical statements:

7. If without the encroachment of the Americans, the Philippines would still be a colony of Spain, and that Filipino
would continue their struggle for independence.

 President McKinley's methodology going into the contention was to take. However much of the
Philippines as could reasonably be expected and afterward, during harmony dealings, to just "keep
what we want.65 From a regulatory outlook, McKinley imagined the Philippines as an American
protectorate or an American settlement. In the same way as other individuals on the territory, he trusted
Filipinos were unequipped for self-government and didn't need another unfamiliar capacity to assume
control over the islands.66
 The choice to keep the Philippines during the Treaty of Paris that the Senate endorsed in February
1899 set off an extreme and passionate discussion the nation over and on Capitol Hill. Expansionists in
Congress saw the choice to hold the islands as a continuation of America's "show fate" to spread its
compass past the West Coast and into the Pacific. Enemies of colonialists, then again, accepted that
America, which itself had once been an abroad state, reserved no option to accept the islands as the
riches of war.
 The United States began planning to administer the archipelago in January 1899 when President
McKinley established the Philippine commission to gather information about the islands’ “various
populations,” their “legislative needs,” and to identify how best to maintain “order, peace and the public
welfare.

8. If General Douglas McArthur was ready for the invasion, the Philippines would not have been fallen to the
Japanese.
 o It was colonized by American to the Philippines prior Japanese era then it was found out that they are
not prepared for the attack. American refused to continue the war against the Japanese. General
Douglas MC Arthur threaten and said ‘ I Shall return ‘

9. Filipinos must be thankful to the Americans because the latter helped the former for their independence.

 American bought the Philippines and President McKinley arrive the decision of annexing the Philippines
to United States by believing that Philippine government was doing, because they don’t want to be
proclaimed an annex of us. But after declaring that it would "be criminal hostility" for the Joined together
States to attach the archipelago, he turned around himself, somewhat out of fear that another control
would seize the Philippines. Six weeks after Dewey crushed the Spanish armada at Manila Inlet, a
German armada looked for to set up a maritime base there. The British, French, and Japanese looked
for bases within the Philippines. Ignorant that the Philippines were the as it were overwhelmingly
Catholic country in Asia, President McKinley said that American occupation was essential to elevate
and Christianize the Filipinos.

 The Benevolent Assimilation Proclamation of President William McKinley made explicit US intentions in
the Philippines by informing the Filipinos that the Americans came to the country not as invaders nor
conquerors but as a companionship which could help the natives to their homes, employments, and
personal religions rights. U.S. needed to win the certainty, regard, and love of their habitants of the
Philippines by guaranteeing them in each possible way that full degree of person rights and freedoms
which is the legacy of free people groups, and by demonstrating to them that the mission of the Joined
together States is one of kind assimilation substituting the mellow influence of equity and right for
subjective run the show.

10. If the 1976 Tripoli agreement was successful in its first implementation, the Philippine government could have
established peace in Mindanao.

o As consenting to an arrangement with the MNLF at the encouraging of a worldwide force like the OIC
was no little concession for Philippine tyrant Ferdinand Marcos, the understanding was viewed as a
pyrrhic
Triumph for the MNLF and a discovery for harmony. Be that as it may, it gave just bogus would like to
Philippine harmony voting public and didn't satisfy its guarantee.

o By 1977, a breakaway group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), declared their reality and
dispatched offensives against Philippine government powers. The MILF professed to be more moderate
than the MNLF, expressing that their battle was pointed toward achieving 'certifiable self-rule inside the
power of the Philippines'. Interestingly, the MNLF's call to war requested autonomy from the Philippine
state.

o As noted before, the Tripoli Agreement was a benchmark in the long history of the Mindanao harmony
measure. For one, it solidified the MNLFs' situation of aggressiveness versus the Philippine
government. This particular position accompanied the special reward of the MNLF's being concurred
spectator status in the gatherings of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), a status that
proceeds to the current day. For another, the Tripoli Agreement was proof of the Philippine
government's passive consent to an

international distinct advantagethe expanding political intensity of certain OIC nations, practically which
were all flooded with dark gold or oil.
o It is broadly realized that President Marcos chose to look for Libya's intervention after he learnt of the
waning oil and fuel holds in the Philippines around then. At that point and now, the nation has been
reliant on the Middle Eastern oil-rich part nations of the OIC for its oil flexibly. The OIC, which perceived
how Muslims were enduring during Marcos' military law, had prior compromised an oil ban on the
Philippines should the last will not begin harmony chats with the MNLF.