DOLLESIN, RHEA MAE, M.

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REFLECTIVE ASSESSMENT

After completing the topics in this module, compare what you discovered with what you
learned. Write your ideas to complete the statement below.

The primary and secondary sources are the subject of our discussion. We also discuss the sign
ificance of primary and secondary sources in history and how they are used. It comes in sever
al different forms, and a particular source can turn into a variety of formats.

For our study, a primary resource offers you instant access to the topic. Secondary sources ar
e data and commentary from other researchers receiving the secondary. Based on the discussi
on secondary sources are credible research that is based on or concerning main sources. Seco
ndary sources include, as for instance, papers and journals in which writers analyze the data f
rom some other study group's research or documentary footage of an incident. Secondary sou
rces are summarized or integrated into tertiary sources. Also referred to here the secondary so
urces' correctness by comparing them to primary sources, which may be more fragmented but
can cooperate on essential facts given by secondary sources, increasing the secondary sourc
e's sense of credibility.

Although primary sources have been lost to time, we frequently have to rely on secondary so
urces. We lean on secondary sources in the literature if we are unable to firsthand experience
the incident. Both are necessary and mutually beneficial.

ASSIGNMENT
Primary and secondary sources have distinctions and similarities. A primary source offers yo
u direct access to the subject of your study, such as archives and manuscripts, pictures, audio
and video recordings, and films, among other things. Secondary sources, on the other hand, in
clude information and comments from other scholars. Journal articles, reviews, and scholarly
volumes are examples. Primary sources are described, interpreted, or synthesized by secondar
y sources. Although primary materials are more trustworthy as evidence, excellent research in
corporates both primary and secondary sources. The primary sources will almost always be th
e focus of your investigation. Not all secondary sources are expressly analyzed when are refer
enced. Instead, you'll probably utilize its ideas to help you create your own or evaluate its arg
uments against new data.

SECONDARY SOURCE
Who is the founder of Intramuros?
Intramuros, urban district and historic walled city within Metropolitan Manila, in the Philipp
ines. The name, from the Spanish word meaning “within walls,” refers to the fortified city fou
nded at the mouth of the Pasig River shortly after 1571 by the Spanish conquistador Miguel L
ópez de Legazpi.

Intramuros, though formally subject to the Viceroyalty of New Spain in Mexico City, became

the capital of the New Spanish island dominion and flourished during the 17th and 18th centu
ries. The 146 acres (59 hectares) within the original 20-foot- (6-metre-) thick walls contain M
anila Cathedral, Fort Santiago, San Agustin Church, the University of the City of Manila, and
other monuments to the Spanish colonial period. Urban congestion during the late 19th and e
arly 20th centuries gradually encircled the site (the moat was filled in 1905) and wore down a
nd replaced the distinctive Spanish colonial architecture with government offices. In 1944 U.
S. bombing completed the reduction of the city to rubble. The site was cleared after World W
ar II, but reconstruction proceeded slowly. The pentagonal walls, seven gates, and small plaza
s that distinguish Intramuros from the surrounding Malay and Americanized districts of Mani
la have been restored, together with a few period houses.

Miguel López de Legazpi, (born c. 1510, Zumárraga, Spain—died Aug. 20, 1572, Manila, P

hil.), Spanish explorer who established Spain’s dominion over the Philippines that lasted until
the Spanish-American War of 1898.

Legazpi went to New Spain (Mexico) in 1545, serving for a time as clerk in the local govern
ment. Although Ferdinand Magellan had discovered the Philippine archipelago in 1521, no E
uropean settlements had been made there, so Luis de Velasco, the viceroy of New Spain, sent
Legazpi to claim it in 1564. He left Acapulco with five ships and reached Cebu, one of the so
uthern islands of the archipelago, in April 1565, founding the first Spanish settlement on the s
ite of modern Cebu City.
Legazpi served as the first governor of the Philippines, from 1565 until his death. In 1570 he
sent an expedition to the northern island of Luzon, arriving there himself the next year. After
deposing a local Muslim ruler, in 1571 he established the city of Manila, which became the c
apital of the new Spanish colony and Spain’s major trading port in East Asia.

Legazpi repulsed two attacks by the Portuguese, in 1568 and 1571, and easily overcame the p
oorly organized Filipinos’ resistance. The Muslims in the southern islands resisted Spanish ru
le up to the 19th century, but Islām was weak in Luzon and the northern islands, and Legazpi
and his chaplain, Andrés de Urdaneta, were able to lay the foundations for the conversion of t
he people to Christianity, which proved their most durable legacy.
Reference:
https://www.britannica.com/place/Intramuros
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Miguel-Lopez-de-Legazpi