What is the importance/relevance of studying Philippine history?

Studying Philippine history is very important to know what happen in the past and also to
learn what important things/happening during that period, studying philippine history help us
to know more about ourself and our true identity.

Short history about what happened in the country during the Spain, America
and Japan colonization in our country.
Spanish period
Ferdinand Magellan discovered the Philippines in 1521, Spaniards colonized the Philippines
for 333 years 1571-1898.
American period
When the spanish-american War ended, Spain sold the Philippine archipelago to america.
The Philippines were colonized by the United States for 48 years. It started when Spain
ceded the Philippines to the United States in 1898 and lasted until 1946, when the United
States recognized Philippine independence.
Japanese period
Japan occupied the Philippines for over three years, until the surrender of Japan. A highly
effective guerrilla campaign by Philippine resistance forces controlled sixty percent of the
islands, mostly forested and mountainous areas. MacArthur supplied them by submarine
and sent reinforcements and officers.

What are the things we can get in studying Philippine history.

By studying history we can get many learnings on what happened in the past and that will
guide us to what will be our action in the present and future.

According to the primary and secondary sources, kindly enumerate the

differences in primary and secondary sources and explain.
Primary source is the original statement, author, writer, or commentator’s actual words
verbatim. It can be described as those sources that are closest to the origin of the
information.
Secondary source takes the verbatim and “interprets” the statement, altering often times,
what was actually said to create an opinion or a slant from the actual information. This can
be done many times until the original or primary source statement is totally missing from
secondary source text or commentary.