The fleet service that the Filipinos utilized to trade with the Americans and Asians
The Acapulco Galleon or Nao de China
This was how the status of ones birth dictates our social hierarchy, status, and job.
Racism
The main method of pacifying the natives upon Spanish colonization
The Church
Lapu-Lapu
1-10
7
Pineapple
A term for those local to an area, often used diminutively like in the case of the Spaniards to the Filipinos.
Indios
Indigenous Beliefs
1-100
69
It was a ‘land distribution’ system that colonial officials and institutions favored for the Filipinos
Encomienda
The process of recolating the native indios into towns.
Reduccion
Church Rule, basically
Frailocracy
Friar Interferance
Monastic Supremacy
1-1,000
420
Overall just an entrepot
The Philippines' main purpose to Spain
At the point of Spanish rule, a contentender for the highest power of the government
The Church
Though it wasn't the original, it is the dominant religion to this day
Catholicism
God, Gold, and Glory
Reasons for colonialism
1-10,000
1565
A subtle taxation method done by the church for “religious reasons”
The Sanctorum
A large listing of various surnames
Catalogo Alfabeto de Apellidos
A gothic church located in Intramuros.
San Sebastian Church
Around 1565
1-100,000,000,000,000
465