KATE CRYSTAL DELGADO, CARLA MAE MARAVILLA, EDRIAN ALPHARD MATULAC

BN4C – 09/06/21

MODULE 2: LEARNING TASK #1:

World Events

1. There was a period of economic growth in the Philippines throughout the nineteenth
century, notably after 1830. In those years, the growth of an export economy brought
increasing wealth to the Filipino middle and upper classes, as well as to the Western
merchants who organized it, primarily British and American merchants.
2. The opening of Suez Canal had a significant impact on the world goods trade.
3. The growth of commercial agriculture resulted in the rise of the Chinese-Filipino
mestizos.
4. In Aug. 30, 1896, the first battle of the Rebellion in the Philippines on San Juan del
Monte,
5. The Industrial Revolution brought about sweeping changes in economic and social
organization on the world. The process of industrialization enabled the Philippines
to vastly improve the efficiency of its agricultural sector while concurrently enabling the
emergence of a manufacturing base specializing in high-technology goods.

Philippine Setting

1. The return of the Jesuits was one of the major influences on the educational
developments of the nineteenth century. They returned with ideas and methods new to the
Philippine educational system.
2. The Propaganda Movement was a reform and national consciousness movement that
began in the late nineteenth century among young Filipino expatriates.
3. Rizal returned to the Philippines and established the Liga Filipina. However, the overly
scared Spanish quickly arrested Rizal, exiled him to a secluded island in the south, and
finally killed him in 1896.
4. As a result of Rizal's arrest, activists formed the Katipunan, which was led by Andres
Bonifacio.
5. Jose Rizal's writings turned him from a writer and propagandist against the social and
religious injustices of Spanish authority in the Philippines, which made him a national
hero.

Great People

1. Ferdinand Blumentritt – Rizal formed a lifetime connection with this kind-hearted

Austrian professor. He wrote the prologue to Rizal's second book, El Filibusterismo, and
translated a chapter of the latter's first book, Noli Me Tangere, into German, despite his
opposition to its release because he feared it would lead to Rizal's death.
2. Marcelo H. Del Pilar – An illustrado and a leading figure of the propaganda movement.
3. Graciano López Jaena – Founded La Solidaridad together with Rizal and Del Pilar.
4. Maximo Viola – a very good friend of Rizal. Agreed to lend him money for the
publishing of Noli Me Tangere.
5. Leonor Rivera - she is assumed to be the inspiration for the character Maria Clara, a
character in his books Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo. She is a childhood friend
of Rizal. When Rizal went to Europe in 1882, both of them continued their
communication through letters. Their communication helped Rizal focus on his studies.