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RPH Reviwer
YEAR 2020
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
AND TRENDS IN THE ANTI - TERROR LAW
PHILIPPINES (2018-present) ● The controversial Anti-
Terrorism Act of 2020 was
YEAR 2019 signed into law by President
Rodrigo Duterte in July. The
BOL LAW law drew criticism and concern
● The Bangsamoro Organic Law from various sectors over
(BOL) is a law that created the potential human rights
Bangsamoro Autonomous violations and implications for
Region in Muslim Mindanao free speech.
(BARMM). The BARMM is a
self-governing region in NATURAL DISASTERS
Mindanao that is intended to ● The Philippines experienced a
give more autonomy to the series of devastating typhoons
Muslim population of the in 2020, including Typhoon
region. The BOL was signed in Goni (Rolly) and Typhoon
July 2019, and the BARMM Vamco (Ulysses), which
was inaugurated in October caused widespread
2019. destruction, flooding, and loss
of life
DUTERTE ADMINISTRATION
● Within weeks of his ONLINE DISTANCE LEARNING
inauguration as president of ● The education system faced
the Philippines in June 2016, challenges due to the
Rodrigo R. Duterte became the pandemic. Schools shifted to
most internationally known online distance learning,
Filipino leader since Ferdinand highlighting issues of access to
Marcos, the country’s infamous technology and the digital
dictator, and Corazon Aquino, divide
the iconic housewife-turned-
WEST PHILIPPINES SEA that nearly century-old dream
● Tensions in the South China when she lifted a total of 224
Sea continued, with China's kilograms on Monday at Tokyo
activities in the West Philippine International Forum.
Sea drawing attention and
raising concerns about TECHNOLOGY AND
maritime sovereignty. DIGITALIZATION
● The pandemic accelerated the
adoption of digital technologies
YEAR 2021 in various sectors. Discussions
about digital transformation,
COMMUNITY PANTRIES online education, and
● A grassroots movement of ecommerce were likely to
community pantries emerged continue
as a response to the economic
challenges brought about by YEAR 2022
the pandemic. These initiatives 2022 NATIONAL ELECTION
aimed to provide essential ● Thirty-six years after the family
goods to those in need. was ousted in a popular
revolution, the son and political
INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS heir of arguably the most
● Various infrastructure projects, divisive president of the
such as the "Build, Build, republic, Ferdinand Marcos Jr.
Build" program, aimed at was elected to the presidency
improving transportation, by a landslide in May with 31
connectivity, and urban million votes, more than the
development were expected to combined votes of his
continue. As pf March opponents.
2023,accordning to Bureau of
Treasure of PH, the national UKRAINE VS RUSSIA
debt is 13.86 Trillion Pesos. ● Tears of a pope in a recent
homily could well sum up the
TOKYO OLYMPICS world’s misery over Ukraine,
● For 97 years the Philippines whose invasion in February by
longed for that elusive gold neighboring Russia triggered
medal in the Olympics and a inflation all around because of
teary-eyed Hidilyn Diaz fulfilled blocked or bottlenecked supply
lines for oil and wheat that had
domino effect on economies. MAHARLIKA INVESTMENT FUND
● July 2023 was also the time
SIM REGISTRATION when Marcos signed Republic
● RA 11934 and commonly Act 11954 establishing the
referred to as the SIM card Maharlika Investment Fund
law, is a Philippine law (MIF)
mandating the registration of
SIM cards before activation. DEGAMO KILLING
Under the measure, mobile ● The House of Representatives
device users, must register expelled Negros Oriental Third
their SIM cards, whether District Rep. Arnolfo Teves Jr.
prepaid or postpaid. The law from its rolls in August, five
was enacted intending to curb months after the lawmaker was
cybercriminal activities tagged as mastermind in the
killing of the province’s
THE RISE OF INFLATION governor, Roel Degamo, in
● Inflation in the Philippines rose March.
to 6.1% in May 2022, the
highest level in four years. The LEILA DE LIMA OUT, VOWS FIGHT
rise in inflation is due to a BACK
number of factors, including ● A fierce critic of former
the war in Ukraine, which has President Rodrigo Duterte,
caused the prices of oil and former senator Leila de Lima
other commodities to rise.. walked free on November 13,
2023, after almost seven years
of detention due to what she
YEAR 2023 has said were politically
motivated illegal drug charges
END OF COVID-19 EMERGENCY filed against her. A Muntinlupa
● The lifting was made based on court had granted her bail
the decline in deaths caused petition for her remaining drug
by the disease, as well as the case.
decrease in Covid-related
hospitalizations and intensive CONFIDENTIAL FUND
care unit admissions and the ● Amid criticism on the allocation
public’s immunity to the virus of these funds, Congress cut
down the requested when alleged members of the
confidential and intelligence Daulah Islamiyah-Maute group
funds (CIF) of civilian agencies detonated a bomb while a
of the Marcos administration mass was ongoing inside a
without a mandate to perform gym of Mindanao State
investigations or surveillance University (MSU) in Marawi
under the 2024 National City on December 3, 2023.
Expenditures Program
SOCORRO CULT
● The president and other
officials of Socorro Bayanihan
Services Inc. (SBSI), which
was referred to as a “cult,”
were arrested by the National
Bureau of Investigation on
November 7, 2023 for qualified
trafficking in persons,
facilitation of child marriage,
solemnization of child marriage
and child abuse.
INFLUENCE OF SCIENTIFIC
DISCOVERIES ON HISTORY
● Scientific discoveries have
often had profound impacts on
historical events and human
societies. For example, the
Industrial Revolution, driven by
scientific advancements
ETHICAL CONSIDIRATION
WEEK 3 ● The study of history and
science raises ethical
questions and
HISTORY AND SCIENCE IS considerations.
Historical analysis often
INTERWINED
involves examining the
ethical implications of
HISTORY
past actions.
● The study of past events as a
record and explanation of
Change.
HOW TO BECOME
SCIENCE HISTORIAN
● Science is a systematized WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT KIND
body of knowledge gathered OF SOURCES AND HOW
through carefully observing SIGNIFICANT ARE THESE SOURCES
and measuring events IN THE PROCESS OF
HISTORIOGRAPHY
printed, such as archival
WHAT ARE THE HISTORICAL materials, memoirs, and
SOURCES? diaries.
● Materials used for the writing
of history. Historical sources NON WRITTEN SOURCES
can include coins, artefacts, ● such as oral history, artifacts,
monuments, literary sources, ruins, fossils, artworks, video
documents, artifacts, and audio recordings
archaeological sites, features,
oral transmissions, stone PRIMARY SOURCES
inscriptions, paintings, ● Materials produced by people
recorded sounds, images and or groups directly involved in
oral history. Even ancient relics the event or topic being
and ruins, broadly speaking, studied
are historical sources. ● either participants or witnesses
● Range from eyewitness
WHAT ARE HISTORIOGRAPHY accounts, diaries, letters, legal
● It's the study of how historical documents, and official
recording and interpretations of documents (government or
the same events shift with time private) and even photographs
as a result of many different
factors.
CLASSIFICATION OF
CLASSIFICATION OF PRIMARY RESOURCES
HISTORICAL SOURCES
WRITTEN- materials written and/or
published by a firsthand eyewitness
PUBLISHED MATERIALS
or the participant
● Materials that have been
IMAGES - visual documents
published for public use, such
published or made by an eyewitness,
as books, magazines, reading
or the participant
journals, travelogues, or
ARTIFACTS- materials made by a
speech transcripts.
firsthand eyewitness, or the
participant
MANUSCRIPT
ORAL TESTIMONIES - documented
● Are any handwritten or typed
conversations written and/or
record that has not been
published by a firsthand eyewitness, goal of historical criticism,
or the participant traditionally, has been to try to
understand the text’s meaning
EXAMPLE OF PRIMARY in its original context and to
SOURCES answer questions about the
1. Fossil Remains text, such as:
2. Artifacts and Ruins ● Who wrote it?
3. . Royal Decrees and Laws ● When was it written?
4. Official Reports ● What else what happening at
5. . Chronicles the time of its writing?
● How did it come to be in the
SECONDARY SOURCES form we have it today?
● Materials that analyze and ● What did it mean to the people
interpret primary sources who first read or heard it?
● may have pictures, quotes, or
graphics of primary sources in
them CLASSIFICATION OF
HISTORICAL CRITICISM
EXAMPLE OF SECONDARY
SOURCES EXTERNAL- Evaluates the validity of
● Examples of secondary the document – where, when and by
sources can be history books whom it was produced (Wiersma,
and printed materials, such as 1986)
serials and periodicals, which ● Who wrote the source? •
interpret previous research. ● When was it written? •
● Why was it written? •
HISTORICAL CRITICISM ● Who was the intended
● Refers to the study of literary audience?
texts, particularly ancient texts, ● What was the author's bias?
in terms of their historical ● What are the source's
origins and development within strengths and weaknesses?
those contexts.
● Historical criticism seeks
greater understanding of INTERNAL - Evaluates the meaning,
biblical texts by analyzing the accuracy, and trustworthiness of the
historical and social contexts in content of the document (Wiersoma,
which they developed. The 1886)
● Every information presented
● Is the source's handwriting before is reevaluated in
consistent with the time relation to selected
period ? hypotheses, theories, and
● Is the source's paper or generalizations that aim to
parchment authentic? • shed new light or verified
● Is the source's ink authentic? information
● Are there any signs of
tampering or forgery? CONTENT VS CONTEXT
HISTORICAL METHOD CONTENT
● Process of systematically ● The subjects or topics covered
examining an account of what in a book or document
has happened in the past ● The matter dealt with in a field
● Uses Historical Criticism to of study
evaluate Historical Sources CONTEXT
● the parts of a written or spoken
IMPORTANCE OF HISTORICAL statement that precede or
METHOD follow a specific passage,
usually influencing its meaning
FINDING SOLUTIONS FOR
or effect
CONTEMPORARY PROBLEMS
● Enables us to form solutions to
contemporary problems by
seeking verisimilar information
in the present into the past.
AUTHOR’S PERSPECTIVE
UNDERSTANDING THE TRENDS BACKGROUND
FOR PRESENT AND FUTURE ● A short history about the
● Throws light on the trends author’s life
today and gives prediction on POINT-OF-VIEW
what might happen. ● Perspective used by the author
that determines the
REEVALUATION OF PRESENTED approximate “distance” of the
HISTORICAL DATA AND author to the narrative he or
FACTOIDS she is writing
ARGUMENT
● Also called purpose; the ● What language (words,
author’s stand or opinion in the phrases, symbol, images) does
narrative the author use to persuade its
ATTITUDE readers?
● reflects the current situation
and emotion of the author in CONTEXTUALIZATION
the material at the time it was ● asks students to locate a
written ormade document in time and place
and to understand how these
factors shape its content.
ANOMALIES IN HISTORY ● When and where was the
document created?
INCONSISTENCY
● What was different then?
● a state where two facts don’t
What was the same?
match. Information also may
● How might the circumstances
be incoherent in investigations.
in which the document was
CONTROVERSY
created affect its content?
● a discussion marked by
● asks students to consider
expression of opposing views.
details across multiple sources
It is also a result of
to determine points of
inconsistent information.
agreement and disagreement.
● What do other documents
say?
● Do the documents agree? If
not, why?
READING LIKE A
HISTORIAN ● What are other possible
documents?
CLOSE READING ● What documents are most
● The close reading poster reliable?
helps students evaluate
sources and analyze rhetoric CORROBORATION
by asking them: ● asks students to consider
● What claims does the author details across multiple sources
make? to determine points of
● What evidence does the agreement and disagreement.
author use?
● • What do other documents ● Historical revisionism is a
say? broader term that refers to
● Do the documents agree? If academic reinterpretations of
not, why? history based on new evidence
● What are other possible and reasoning.
documents?
● What documents are most REEVALUATION OF PRESENTED
reliable? HISTORICAL DATA FACTOIDS
● Every information presented
SOURCING before is reevaluated in
● asks students to consider who relation to selected
wrote a document as well as hypotheses, theories, and
the circumstances of its generalizations that aim to
creation. shed new light or verified
● Who wrote this? information.
● What is the author’s
perspective?
● Why was it written?
● When was it written?
● Where was it written?
● Is this source reliable? Why?
Why not?
DISTORTION OR
MODIFICATION
HISTORICAL REVISIONISM
● Historical revisionism is a
broader term that refers to
academic reinterpretations of
history based on new evidence
and reasoning.
HISTORICAL DISTORTION
● Islas de San Lazaro
(Archipelago of Saint Lazarus)
- Magellan
● Las Islas Felipenas – Ruy
Lopez de Villalobos
Antonio Pigafetta
● A Narrative Account of First
Circumnavigation
Upon Arrival
● Two indigenous leaders
participated in the mass: Rajah
Colambu, ruler of Limasawa,
and Rajah Siagu, ruler of
Butuan, both of whom kissed
the cross and prayed with the
crew.
BUTUAN EVIDENCES
● Erection of a monument in
1872 near Agusan River
● The expedition's arrival and
celebration of Mass 8 April
1521.
● The discovery of a number of
SITE OF FIRST MASS plank-built and edge-pegged
wooden open water boats
● Trinidad (known as balangay) within the
● San Antonio same sites.
● Concepcion ● Site where scientist and
● Santiago historians recovered the
● Victoria Balangay and it was
unearthed.
“Philippines”
● Ma - yi – Chinese
● Cross in Butuan City facing the and after Magellan's death in
Agusan River. the Philippine Islands, the
● The diversity of the trade subsequent voyage around the
wares recovered from Butuan world.
archaeological sites, including ● During the expedition, he
high-fired. served as Magellan's assistant
and kept an accurate journal,
WHY LIMASAWA which later assisted him in
● Andrea Da Mosto’s translating the Cebuano
Transcription language. It is the first
● The Log of Francisco Albo recorded document concerning
(Victoria’s Pilot) the language.
● Trinidad Pardo de Tavera (El ● Italian chronicler
Comercio, 1895) ● “The First Voyage Around the
● The Quadricentennial World"
Celebration ● MARCH 16, 1521- Magellan's
expedition spotted a"high
PRIMARY SOURCES land"called "Zamal."
1. PIGAFETTA’S TESTIMONY ● MARCH 17,1521- The
2. PIGAFETTA AND SEVEN expedition landed on an
DAYS IN MAZAUA uninhabited island named
3. ALBO’S LOG "Humunu" (Homonhon).
Magellan named the entire
archipelago the “Islands of
Saint Lazarus.
● MARCH 18,1521- Their
Pigafetta's Testimony on second day on Homonhon, a
boat approached with nine
the Route of Magellan's
occupants. After exchanging
Expedition
gifts, Magellan requested food
supplies, which the men
Who is Antonio Pigafetta?
promised to deliver in four
● Antonio Pigafetta was a
days.
Venetian scholar and explorer.
- Magellan renamed the island
He joined the expedition to the
of Homonhon (Watering Place
Spice Islands led by explorer
of Good Omen) due to these
Ferdinand Magellan under the
favorable indicators.
flag of King Charles I of Spain,
● MARCH 22,1521- Native Camotes Group island. The Spanish
inhabitants returned with food ships paused here to allow the king
of Mazaua, traveling in a native
supplies, arriving in two boats.
balanghai, to catch up.
● MARCH 25,1521 -Magellan' s - From the Camotes Islands, they
expedition remained on sailed southwestward toward "Zubu"
Homonhon for eight days, (Cebu).
coincided with the feast-day of
the Incarnation, also known L
PIGAFETTA AND SEVEN DAYS IN
as the feast of the
MAZAUA
Annunciation or "Our Lady 's
Day. " An incident occurred
Thursday, March 28 (Holy
where Pigafetta fell overboard
Thursday)
but was rescued, an event
● They had anchored in the
attributed to the Blessed Virgin
nearby island where they had
Mary ' s intercession.
seen a light previously.
-After leaving Homonhon
● Later on, two large boat came
Island on Monday, March 25,
in where one resides a native
1521, Magellan' s expedition
king.
charted a course west-
● Magellan invited the natives to
southwest. Their trajectory
went up the ship and
took them first westward
exchanged gifts. In the
towards Leyte, then southward
afternoon the same day, the
along the Leyte coast,
Spanish ships anchored near
navigating between Hibuson
the native king's village.
and Hiunangan Bay, before
proceeding southward and
Friday, March 29 (Good Friday)
finally westward towards their
● Magellan sent his slave
destination, Mazaua.
● MARCH 28,1521- Magellan's
interpreter to ask the king for
expedition anchored off Mazaua expedition assistance and tell
Island. - Remaining him they had come as friends
seven days on Mazaua, the activities not an enemy.
during this time are detailed ● The king went to the Spanish
separately in a section titled "Seven
Days at Mazaua.
ship with 8 of his men, an
● APRIL 4- They departed Mazaua for exchange of gifts occurred
Cebu, guided by the king ofMazaua again.
in his own boat. ● They returned ashore bringing
- They sailed westward to the two of Magellan's men as
guest in which Pigafetta was Albo’s Log
one.
Who is Francisco Albo?
Saturday, March 30 (Black ● Francisco Albo, a pilot of one
Saturday) of Magellan's ship, Trinidad. Of
● Pigafetta and his companion the fleet of five ships that
left the native king's company Ferdinand Magellan left Seville
and returned to the ships. with on August 10, 1519—San
Antonio, Concepcion,
Sunday, March 31 (Easter Sunday) Santiago, Victoria and Trinidad
● Later in the morning, Magellan —only one, Victoria, was able
landed with his men and the to complete its
mass was celebrated, after circumnavigation of the world,
which a cross was venerated. arriving in Seville on
● On the afternoon, they September 9, 1522
returned ashore and went to
the highest hill to plant the ● Francisco Albo, boatswain and
cross in which the kings of navigator from the island of
Butuan and Mazaua are Rhodes. Originally boatswain
present. of the Trinidad in Ferdinand
Magellan’s expedition, he then
Monday to Wednesday, April 1 to became pilot of the Victoria
3 under the command of
● Magellan sent men ashore to Sebastian de Elcano. One of
help with the harvest, but no the eighteen survivors who
work was done because the completed the first
two kings were sleeping off circumnavigation of the world
their drinking bout the night with Sebastian Elcano on the
before. Victoria,
● The next two days were work ● They sailed westwards
on harvesting towards a large island named
Seilani that was inhabited and
Thursday, April 4 was known to have gold.
● Magellan and his men leave Sailing southwards along the
Mazava and bound to Cebu coast of that large island of
Seilani, they turned southwest
to a small island called
“Mazava” That island is also at Filipino exclusive to Spaniards born
a latitude of 9 and two-thirds in the Philippines.
degrees North.
● Albo didn’t mention the first
Mass, but only the planting of GOVERNOR GENERAL
the cross upon a mountain-top
● Carlos Maria de la torre
from which could be seen
( 1869-1871)
three islands to the west and
● Rafael de Izquierdo ( 1871-
southwest, which also fits the
1873)
southern end of Limasawa.
They were told there was a lot
of gold. They showed us how
the gold was gathered, which The Martyrdom of
came in small pieces like peas GomBurZa
and lentils. Mariano Gomez de los Angeles
● Birth: August 2, 1799 - Sta
● Mesa Manila
● Parents: Alejandro Francisco
Gomez And Martina Custodia
de los Angeles
SUMMARY
●
● On January 20, 1872, the
Cavite Mutiny, an uprising of
military personnel at the
Spanish arsenal in Cavite, took ● Zaldua – Unang Binitay
place
● participated in by around 200 2.Gomes – Pangalawa (calm/ready)
soldiers and laborers of the 3.Zamora – Nasiraan na ng bait
Engineering and Artillery 4.Burgos – Umiiyak (tinatanong bakit
Corps siya mamamatay)
● salaries were reduced upon
the order of Governor-General
Rafael de Izquierdo
● subjecting them to personal
taxes, from which they were
previously exempt.