Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Exploring the Pacific - Magellan's Mistake - Extra History - Part 4" video.

  1. What's funny is that after Magellan died, his crew sailed on to Palawan, starving. They were saved when a native chief of Palawan welcomed them peacefully with a feast and supplies.
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  2.  @ulisesdimopulos4376  What technological gap? The native Filipinos when Magellan arrived had metal weapons. Those "bamboo spears" (bangkaw - actually fire-hardened rattan) had metal tips. They had iron swords (he was killed by a kampilan - look it up). The native warships (which were faster and more maneuverable than Spanish galleons) have cannons (lantaka). Everyone had immunity to most European diseases. Southeast Asia during this period had been trading with India, China, Japan, Persia, and Arabia/Egypt for more or less 3,000 years. The Philippines is in the OLD WORLD. This is not the Americas, where people had no immunity to Old World diseases, no metal weapons, no ships, no contact with other ethnicities and cultures. The Spanish conquered the Philippines not by force, but by pitting natives with each other. They first gathered allies, showered them with gifts, converted them, then used those allies to subjugate the nearest settlements, and so on and so forth.
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  3.  @NicitoStaAna  Not really. Humabon (Magellan's ally) was angry at Lapu-Lapu because the latter was attacking trade ships passing through the strait into Cebu's harbor. They were actually friends before this (Humabon was married to Lapu-Lapu's niece), and after Magellan's death Humabon and Lapu-Lapu became allies again. Just good old thalassocratic city-states. Same sort of things happened in Greece which were also thalassocracies.
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  4. "Theory"? Of course gunpowder wasn't new to them. Native Southeast Asian Austronesian ships have CANNONS. The Philippines unlike the Americas or Oceania have long-standing trade relations with India, China, Japan, Srivijaya/Majapahit, Champa, and Martaban (Burma). They've seen white people before, as well as armor. And they have metallurgy.
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  5. China: See! They did it too! We're fully justified in being thieves.
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  6.  Al Cubz  Guam was part of the Philippines during the Spanish period. There are tons of Filipinos in Guam, and Chamorro culture is still very similar to Filipino culture. Same with Palau and Yap.
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  7. Oh god. Please update your history. We are NOT Malays. Most of us were NOT Muslims.
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  8.  @JBroAC  "due to the lack of reliable and available sources." Um... there are TONS of books in Spanish. A lot have been translated to English, especially by Blair and Robertson in the 1900s. The problem is that no one teaches them in schools. The curriculum is outdated and full of American propaganda nonsense like how Rizal fought for independence (Rizal was fighting for representation). Or how the Spaniards enslaved the natives (slavery was illegal in the Spanish Empire). Try reading them yourselves. de Morga, the Boxer Codex, the Vocabularios, Argensola, Alcina, and so much more.
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  9. The Philippines is Old World and part of the very busy trade routes of the Indo-Pacific. They already have immunity to Old World diseases that Europeans brought with them. It's the same reason why the Japanese and Chinese didn't die of epidemics when Europeans contacted them.
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  10.  @conejitorosada2326  "Indio"
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  11. The main religion was animism - the worship of anito. The vast majority of the Philippines was NEVER Muslim.
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  12.  @krankarvolund7771  P.S. Islam arrived in the Philippines around the late 1390s to the 1400s. More or less only a century before Magellan.
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  13.  @ang3l0p3r3z  LOL. Who the fuck told you that? I bet you're Tagalog too and don't know anything about the southern Philippines. You probably think all of Mindanao is Muslim. Let me give you a rundown of all the Muslim groups of the Philippines. There are three major groups: 1) The Sulu Sultanate of the Tausug people. They never extended beyond the islands of Sulu, parts of coastal Zamboanga, and Sabah. They were a major naval power, but they weren't massive. They're a Visayan people who converted to Islam, closely related to the Butuanons and Surigaonons of northern Mindanao. They routinely launched slave raids on the Visayas, especially during Spanish times, but they never controlled Visayas or Mindanao. They didn't even control all of Jolo, Sulu, which was the homeland of the partially Islamized Yakan who fought them until they agreed to a peace treaty. 2) The Maguindanao Sultanate of mainland southwestern Mindanao ruled by Maguindanao and Iranun. They were the largest Muslim state in the country before the Spanish arrived. They were hostile to the animist natives (the Lumad) in northern, central, southern, and eastern Mindanao who resisted their expansion, especially the Bagobos whose native highlands bordered Maguindanao. 3) The Maranao Confederacy. They were not expansionist. They lived in their traditional lands around Lake Lanao in western-central Mindanao. They remained animist longer. Hence why animist traditions survived into modern times. They didn't become fully Muslim until the 1800s. The Molbog, the Sangirese, Jama Mapun, and the Sama-Bajau (including the Banguingui) of southern Palawan, Tawi-Tawi, and Sarangani, were subjects of either the Sulu or the Maguindanao sultanates. The rest of the islands were animist. Major trading ports like Cebu, Butuan, and Manila were syncretized Hindu-Buddhist (whose concept easily accommodated animism). The dozens of Lumad groups of Mindanao were animist (Kalagan, Manobo, Bagobo, B'laan, T'boli, Uvu, Subanen, Talaandig, Mandaya, Bukidnon, Kamigin, Higaonon, Teduray, etc.). The Visayans (except the Tausug) were animist (Sugboanons, Waray, Hiligaynon, Surigaonon, Kagay-anon, Sulodnon, Aklanon, Cuyonon, Agutaynen, etc.) The natives of Palawan (except the Molbog) were animist (Batak, Palawanon, Tawt Bato, Tagbanwa). The natives of Luzon (except perhaps the trading port of Manila) were animist (Igorot, Iloko, Pampango, Bikol, Pangasinan, Gaddang, Ibanag, Yogad, Sambal, Ivatan, Itaws, etc.) The major trading ports traded with Malays, but they were not part of Srivijaya or Majapahit. In the same way that the nearby trading ports of the Makassar and the Buginese of Sulawesi were not part of Majapahit. Neither of those empires were Malay either, they were Javanese. Malays became dominant only after the fall of Majapahit, after Malacca became the trading center of SE Asia shortly before the Portuguese conquered it. The closest Malay kingdom to the Philippines was Brunei, which was a Malay colony. And back then it was a poor country that was subservient to Sulu. Sulu even started attacking them in the 1800s when Brunei allied with the British. Wherever you learned your history, I'm 100% sure it was not a book or a reliable source.
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  14. He was recognized as the leader. Got hit with an arrow on the leg, hobbling him, then the natives charged. Some of his men stayed to help him. They all died.
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