Bulacan Polytechnic College

Bulihan, City of Malolos

Bachelor of Technical –
Vocational Teacher Education

Annotation of Antonio
Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas
Filipinas (Anotasyon sa
Aklat Ni Morga)
In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the
Subject
Life and Works of Rizal

Submitted by: Abenasa, Karl Jerome T.

Submitted to: Mrs. Amaninche, Estrellita M.
RIZ113 Instructor
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1. Meaning of Las 2. Objective of Rizal

Islas Filipinas and and Antonio Morgas
Sucesos
Reporter’s Name Reporter’s Name

Karl Jerome Abenasa Jesica Bohol

4. Importance of Rizal’s
3. Rizal’s Annotations Annotations to the
vs. De Morga’s present generation
Sucesos views
Reporter’s Name
Reporter’s Name
Analyn Basco
Jan Marini Baesa Mary Samantha Baldevia
Wella Ann Balatbat
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las Islas Filipina

1.Ano ang Ibig sabihin ng Successos?

2.Ano ang de las Islas Filipinas?

No The Book Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas

upcoming.

• An account of Spanish observations about the Filipinos

and the Philippines.
• Patungkol sa makasaysayang pangyayari sa Isla ng
Pilipinas
• Isinulat ni Antonio de Morga-dating hukom sa Pilipinas
• Spanish lawyer and official in the Philippines during
the 17th century
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Background of the book
Topics
1. Antonio De Morga – Author of Sucesos de las
Topic 1 islas Filipinas.
2. This is one of the first books ever to tackle
Topic 2 Philippine history.
3. Book that describes the events inside and outside
Topic 3 of the country from 1493 to 1603, including the
history of the Philippines.
4. Consist of 8 Chapters.
5. Discuss the political, social and economical
aspects of a colonizer and the colonized country.
6. The content of the book is based on documentary
research, observation and personal experience of
Morga.
7. Rizal is a secondary source of the book due to his
Annotations
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Topic 2: What is Las Islas Filipinas?

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Topics

Topic 1

Topic 2 Las Islas Filipinas means “The

Philippine Island” in English and
Topic 3
was named in honor of King Philip
II of Spain
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Topic 3: What is Sucesos?

All Topics

Topic 1

Topic 2 Sucesos means the work

Topic 3
of an honest observer, a
versatile bureaucrat,
who knew the workings
of the administration
from the inside.
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Rizal’s Objectives

1.To awaken the consciousness of the Filipinos

regarding their glorious ways of the past
2. To correct what has been distorted about the
Philippines due to Spanish conquest
3. To prove that Filipinos are civilized even before the
coming of the Spaniards

Ferdinand Blumentritt has encouraged Rizal to

write about the Philippines’ pre-colonial
History
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The First Objective

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Topic 1

Topic 2 THE EARLY

FILIPINO PRIDE
Topic 3
Rizal strove to
establish that the
Filipinos could be
proud of their pre-
conquest past.
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The second Objective

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Topics
❖ HISTORY AS A PROPAGANDA WEAPON
Topic 1 ❖ Rizal aimed to use history as a propaganda
weapon
Topic 2

Topic 3
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All
Topics

Topic 1 EARLY GOVERNMENT

Topic 2  Our forefathers in the precolonial Philippines

already possessed a working judicial and
Topic 3 legislative system.

HIGH LITERACY RATE

 The Spanish missionaries exploited the baybayin

for their own ends, learning and using it to
translate their goals
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Topics
EARLY ARTILLERY
Topic 1
 Our ancestors were very proficient in
Topic 2 the art of war. Aside from wielding
swords and spears, they also knew
Topic 3 how to make and fire guns and
cannons.
Topic 4

SMOOTH FOREIGN RELATIONS

 The pre-colonial Filipinos had already
established trading and diplomatic relations
with countries as far away as the Middle
East
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Topics
SELFSUFFICIENT
Topic 1
 In terms of food, our forefathers
Topic 2 did not suffer from any lack thereof.
Blessed with such a resource-rich
Topic 3 country, they had enough for
themselves and their families
Topic 4

Topic 5 ADVANCED CIVILIZATION

 Our ancestors possessed a complex
working society and a culture
replete with works of arts and
literature
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Important Points

● Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is the first book to tackle

No upcoming. the Philippine history.
● The book discusses the political, social and economical
aspects of a colonizer and the colonized country.
● The book that describes the events inside and outside of
the country from 1493 to 1603, including the history of the
Philippines.
● The pre-colonial Philippines already possessed a working
judicial and legislative system
● Spanish missionaries put an end to the baybayin written
system of the Philippines to translate their goals
● Our ancestors
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Rizal’s Annotations vs. De Morga’s Sucesos ...
Topic 1
  1. Philippines was NOT DESERTED 1. Philippines was DESERTED  
Topic 2 and was actually HABITABLE. and INHABITABLE.

Topic 3   2. Spaniards, like any other nation, 2. Beef and fish they know it best when it  
treat food to which they are not has started to rot and stin
accustomed or is unknown to them
with disgust. This fish that Morga
mentions is bagoong (salted &
fermented fish).

 
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RIZAL’S 3 PROPOSITIONS
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Topics

Topic 1

Topic 2

Topic 3

1. The people of the Philippines have a culture on their own,

before the coming of the Spaniards
2. Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited, and ruined by
the Spanish colonization
3. The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily
superior to its past
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Jose Rizal as Philippines’ National Hero

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Topics

Topic 1  ● Rizal gave us freedom by using goodness.

 ● Jose Rizal became the Philippines’ National
Topic 2 Hero because he fought for freedom in a
silent but powerful way.
Topic 3  ● He expressed his love for the Philippines
through his novels, essays and articles rather
than through the use of force or aggression.
“To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to
open the books that tell of her past.” - Rizal
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Importance of Rizal’s Annotations to the present generation

❖ To awaken in the Filipinos the consciousness of our past

❖ To devote ourselves to studying the future
❖ To first lay bare the past, in order to better judge the present and to survey
the road trodden during three centuries
❖ To prove Filipinos had a culture of their own, prior to colonization, that
the Filipinos were NOT inferior to the white man
❖ To shatter the myth of the so-called “Indolence of the Filipinos”
❖ To reduce those Filipinos who denied their native tongue into rotten fish
❖ To seriously study Tagalog and produce a comprehensive Tagalog
dictionary
❖ To embrace the generic term “Indio”, or in today’s case, Filipino, with all its
negative connotations, and turn it into one of dignity and nobility
Thank you for listening!