1. Do you agree with Rizal’s presentation of our pre-colonial history? Why or why not?

2. How did Rizal envision the pre-colonial Filipinos? Why?

I agree that Rizal present our pre-colonial history that way, because there are historical evidences of
how pre-Colonial Filipinos lived. We should know that Filipinos before the Spanish era had their own
writing system, political system, and men and women were of equal status. Rizal believed that pre-
colonial Filipinos had an independent and working system that the Spaniards destroyed upon their
arrival, he believed that Filipinos were very skilled, civilized, and had knowledge of the world outside the
islands. Believed that they were not as ignorant as how Morga portrayed them in the original book.
Rizal believed all of this because he thought that the situation or the system that he was brought up to
during the Spanish occupation in the Philippines was not right, so in order to understand why the
Philippines was the Philippines during his time, he wanted to learn about the Philippines before the
Spaniards came, when Rizal got hold of Morga's book, he studied it and put his own arguments in it.