The History of The Philippines Before Magellan (3000 BCE - 1521 CE)

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The Philippines' pre-1521 history DESERVES more study! I have a gut feeling we are far from fully understanding it completely!

My direct ancestor formerly served Rajah Sulayman as his personal cannon maker. Following the downfall of Maynila and its rulers, he then worked for Conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi as a weapons maker for Spain, crafting cannons for the fortress now recognised as Intramuros. If you're familiar with him, yes I'm talking about Panday Pira. Some of his descendants (my relatives) reside in Abra, while my lineage remains in Manila. Just thought I'd share, and it's great to see more Philippine History.❤

Any game developers out there. Hear this. Any triple A game (God of War style) base off with culture and animalism of pre-colonial Philippines would be a massive hit. I would love to time travel in this time of era. Seeing those mythical creatures (tikbalang, kapre, manananggal) mixed with tagalog god (bathala), barangay kingdoms, animalism, muslims and threat of incoming spanish Christian invasion interplay with each other would be a great experience!!

Can't believe my humble city (butuan) got recognized in this video when we got little recognition in national history discussions here in the Philippines

Easy to get along, phillipine people ❤❤ from🇮🇩 indo..

This was a very good effort to shed light on the details of Pre-Colonial Philippines, so Kudos to the creator. I was happy hearing the discussion from the start up to 3:30; past 3:33, I noticed some information lacking, like: 1. In 3:33, there was the discussion on the Barangays led by the Datus, the basic form of government, but the discussion on the much larger Bayan, which was a Confederation of Barangays and was led by an Indigenous Lakan (the Ruler of all Datus in the area and supposed to have the bloodline of a Diwata) or an Indianized or Islamized Rajah was missing. Reference: Pre-Colonial Manila Briefer, Presidential Museum and Library, Republic of the Philippines 2. In 6:37, there was a discussion on Tondo and Maynila. However, they were referred to as Barangays. These were actually Bayans, a confederation of Barangays. Reference: Pre-Colonial Manila Briefer, Presidential Museum and Library, Republic of the Philippines Also, Tondo was actually a Center of a larger Confederacy of Bayans built by Gat Lontok and Dayang Kalangitan, maybe referred to as Luzon. The Confederacy includes the Bayans of Tondo, Maynila, Maysapa, I don’t know if Namayan was included, but I have read the the Bayans of Bae and Lumbang also submits to the rulership of Tondo, plus the Bayans of Central Luzon (those who participated in the Revolt of the Lakans). 3. I said that the Confederacy of Bayans may have been referred to as Luzon because the people who came from there were called Luzones by the Portuguese. In 10:33, the creator said that the first contact of the Filipinos with the Europeans was in 1521, when Magellan landed on Homonhon Island in the Visayas; however, the Portuguese were already able to interact with the Luzones in their Conquest of Malacca in 1511. In fact, the Portuguese installed Rejimo Diraja, a Luzones, to help them manage the Port of Malacca after the conquest of the Sultanate. Reference: The Suma Oriental of Tome Pires. 4. In 8:36, the creator discussed the Sulu Sultanate and Brunei Sultanate, but they did not included the island of Palawan as part of their dominion. I hope my findings help in anyway.

Man I was born and raised in the Philippines before migrating to America but this information is not even taught to us in elementary school. It took 51 years for me to know these history. All they taught in schools were 1521 Spanish era onwards.

This is what we need more videos of ....history of nations BEFORE EUROPEANS arrived. Id like movies n videos as well and id pay to read subtitles.

The jade culture is associated to Austronesian, the Champa people of Vietnam, Philippine archipelago, Formosa/Taiwan

The igorots were one of the few filipinos who never submitted to other religions(Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam) until they were Christianize by the Americans. Most muslim priest say the Philippines was a muslim country which is in fact wrong just to pursuade and convert christian filipinos. Just to remind you the Datus of Visayas were Native Filipinos, the Rajas of Manila-Luzon were Indian(Hindu) Filipinos, only the Sultan of Sulu-Mindanao were Muslim Filipinos, that's why Lapu-Lapu and other Rajas and Datus of Luzon and Visayas were not muslim because they practiced Animism not Islam. There is nothing wrong with Islam, but muslim priests tend to use this wrong information to convert christian filipinos.

The Igorot people of Philippines still maintaining the original Austronesian culture, with less Abrahamic, Dharmic influence compare to lowlands Filipinos

This video clearly explains that there were little to no Muslims in pre colonial Philippines, except some significant Muslim populations in the Maguindanao and Sulu Sultanate areas. The rest of pre colonial Philippines were either adherents of Hinduism and Buddhism mixed with Animism or they were just purely Animists.

Salamat knowledgia for the Philippine content.

As someone who watched Amaya and Indio, this is a lot of fun to watch. We also had a name for our god, if Muslims calls their god, Allah. We call our god, laon. Also the datu term for leader is actually for Visayan kingdoms, lakan is what we call to a leader of a kingdom in Luzon. Luzon culture is a lot different than than the pintados of Visayas. Rajah is pronounced wrong in this video, it's supposed to be rah-hah. We also invented Baybayin.

Brunei now : 🤏 Brunei back then : 😨

What this video proves that the Filipinos or the people before Spanish arrived already civilized.

Big thanks to our ancestors who fought for our land.till now ,we igorots still have our identity we have our own tradition,culture, values etc.maybe that's why many local tourist come to baguio people of it,and our weather.😊

I just want to say I absolutely love your videos! Scientifically accurate asf

Very interesting. This is my first time to know these facts.. Thank you.