Answer the following questions;

1. Describe early Philippine society and its beliefs, customs and traditions
based on existing accounts and primary sources?
Philippine society is a unique blend of diversity and homogeneity. Although
geographically part of Southeast Asia, the country is culturally strongly Euro-
American. Life in the Philippines generally revolves around the extended family,
including parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and other relatives.  Primary
sources are those sources produced at the same time as the event, period, or
subject being studied.

2. Who is Antonio Pigafetta? Why he instantly became a classic prominent

literary men in the west?
Antonio Pigafetta was an Italian scholar and explorer. He joined the expedition
to the Spice Islands led by explorer Ferdinand Magellan under the flag of the
emperor Charles V and after Magellan's death in the Philippine Islands, the
subsequent voyage around the world. His work became a classic that prominent
literary men in the West like William Shakespeare, Michel de Montaigne and
Giambattista Vico referred to the book in their interpretation of the New World.

3. What are the motives of Spain in deciding to colonize the Philippines?

To acquire a share in the spice trade, to develop contacts with China and
Japan in order to further Christian missionary efforts there, and to convert the
Filipinos to Christianity.

4. Describe how Magellan died in the battle of Mactan against Lapu Lapu?
Ferdinand Magellan was killed by a poison arrow during a skirmish on the
island of Mactan in what is now the Philippines.