# Introduction

## Preface (Aug 10, 2015)

* **History 16/18**: General History
* **History 165**: Historia/ Philippines
* Understanding the Philippine History based on a Spanish Perspective
* Not written by Filipinos, written by a Foreigner
* **History 166**: Kasaysayan

## Definition of History (Aug 12, 2015)

* **Study of the Past**: Large and Encompassing
* Not all events in the past have history
* **Story**: Has characters, Plot and a Chronology
* **Recorded**: Who, What, Where, Why
* Written: Diary of Anne Frank, Jose Rizal's Letters
* Oral Tradition: Superstitions, Culture
* Artifacts: Objects, Art, Monuments
* eg. The Last Supper entails that the Renaissance is a rebirth of the
classical ideas (painting style) coming from Romans, and Christianity was relevant.
* eg. Rizal wearing a coat in his monuments because of European influence
* **Has a Value**: Kasaysayan - root word is Saysay, implies significance of value
* **Three Elements of History**
* Time
* Location/Space
* Actors
* *Can History exist without people?*
* Study of history isn't about the actual event, but about the value or meaning
of certain events to the lives of people
* History is not the search of the truth, evidence or facts - it's the search of
meaning or value of what we do

## Geology (Aug. 17, 2015)

* **Map of the Philippines**
* Archipelagic with 7107 islands
* Bad: Created a sense of isolation - failed to create a unified order
* Good: Hindered the expansion of the Spanish
* Northernmost Point: **Batanes**
* Houses are made of stone and not in stilts due to the occurrence of typhoons
and cold weather (Closer to ground = Warmer)
* Almost 0 Crime Rate
* Very close to Taiwan
* Honesty sari-sari store
* Southernmost Point: Tawi-Tawi
* Calinga: there are headhunters, halo-halo
* Pampanga: they were forced to make delicacies
* **Myths/Legends**
* Tatlong Princesa
* Luz, Vi, Minda (Luzon, Visayas, Mindanao)
* Their dad was strict, they left to search for true love and the king
transformed them to islands to punish them
* Two giants (one in the sky, one in the sea) throwing rocks at each other
* Battle between Sky and Sea thanks to a bird that pissed the sea off
* Bird flying in the air, he had no place to land
* Decided to make the sea and sky fight each other
* Sea tried to attack the sky by throwing waves at it, sky threw stones at it
* The stones are the islands of the Phils
* **Science**
* Sea
* Fossilized remains of aquatic life on PH terrain
 * Land came from volcanic activity
* Part of Mainland Asia
* Fits perfectly to the contours of Vietnam
* Land Bridges
* Islands used to be connected but water rose and removed the bridges (least
likely)
* Created a sense of isolation: became very detrimental and advantageous
(Spanish had a hard time colonizing the whole philippines)