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.❤

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

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!!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This is one of the best videos I’ve stumbled upon trying to understand my family history. Thank you!

Brunei now : 🤏 Brunei back then : 😨

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

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

we're warriors in the visayas. this has more information, than school in the philippines has taught. wow. whoever made this video and did the research, im wholeheartedly thankful.

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.😊

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

thank you for this.. we need more videos like this explaining how Philippines was thousands of years ago..

Its interesting about laguna copper inscription in 10th centuries. In Java, we also have many copper inscriptions in 10th centuries

Wow! I'm from Cebu and I learned a lot from this video. Thank you for creating this!

The natives are NEGRITOS. And they've been in the Philippines for 30,000 years. The Austronesians came much later, just 3,000 years ago. Don't leave out the first people. The Negritos are still in the Philippines

thanks for featuring Philippine history. ❤❤❤

Philippines history sure is a mystery. I feel this is only a fraction of what really happened or half truths.

The social castes described here are exclusive to the tagalog regions. In the visayas we have the three-class social structure: Tumao (nobility), Timawa (warrior class akin to the Japanese samurai) and Uripon (slaves, commoners, servants). The PH isn't just tagalog.

🇵🇭 Maráming salámat pára sa videong itó! (Filipino) Muchisimas gracias para [con] este video! (Chavacano Zamboangueño) Thank you so much for this video! (English) I personally call this long period of time as the Prehistory and Ancient History or Ancient and Classical History of the Philippines (without an exact time when ancient history ended and classical history began, but a long and continous period of time and history after prehistory), just to avoid naming, calling, or referring to it as "before Magellan, Pre-Magellan, Pre-Hispanic, Pre-Iberian, Pre-European, and/or Pre-Western or Pre-Westernized", and also to separate it from those other names or terms mentioned above as the Philippines does have its own prehistory and ancient history of its own people who discovered the archipelago, are descendants of these people, and are other people and their descendants from the other parts of the Asia that borders the Indian and Pacific Oceans, and that are not just based on when Magellan and/or other or other later Europeans first set their feet on any of the shores or coasts of any of the islands or islets, or whatnot else, of and that comprise the present-day Philippines. I know that it's challenging for other Filipinos like me to listen, watch, and learn or relearn their prehistory and ancient history from a non-Filipino or from non-Filipinos, or from non-Filipino historian/s, and/or also from non-Philippine historian/s, or from any other professional social scientist/s and/or humanities scholar/s, or even from any professional at all in these fields and/or it's allied fields, whether from historians, other social scientists and/or humanities scholars, teachers, instructors, educators, professors, lecturers, researchers, other scholars, and the like, as some Filipinos also do or may have their own family, clan, community, ethnic or ethnolinguistic, group, organizational, local, provincial, regional, and/or personal or individual versions, perceptions, interpretations, perspectives, points-of-view, variations, forms, counterparts, tales, beliefs, traditions, telling, retelling, myths, conceptions, stories, and/or narratives of or about Philippine prehistory and history, especially about time period/s which lack the most sources and resources or other, especially primary ones and also most especially from non-outsiders, which are what Philippine prehistory and ancient history are. For me though, it's sometimes a breath of fresh air to consider and to listen to Philippine prehistory and history from a non-Filipino or from non-Filipinos, or from non-Filipino historian/s, and/or also from non-Philippine historian/s, or from any other professional social scientist/s and/or humanities scholar/s, or even from any professional at all in these fields and/or it's allied fields, because if they always just come from us Filipinos, our own prehistory and history can and may be written and told in an order and/or with happenings or events, people or individuals, dates or times, details, etc. that are in general or overall biased for and/or against one or the other, all within the complex influences, existence, dynamics, interconnections, interrelationships, and interdependence of politics, classes, ethnicities or ethnic or ethnolinguistic groups, cultural groups or communities, languages and translations, sex, gender, levels of educational attainment, educational backgrounds, access to quality education, access to technology, access to information, right to education, educational systems and curricula, daily and/or monthly incomes of people, professions, beliefs, belief systems, religions, worldviews, ideologies, connections, relationships, power, etc. of Filipinos and non-Filipinos in or within the Philippines and of Filipinos outside or beyond the Philippines. Altough we can't get rid of biases for and/or against one or the other in the writing and telling of any prehistory and history, whether if it is in or within the Philippines or outside or beyond, whether if it's among Filipinos, with Filipinos, with non-Filipinos, or among non-Filipinos, which also includes this video, among other sources and resources, primary, secondary, or whatnot else, but listening, watching, and learning or relearning Philippine or even any other places' prehistory and/or history, or even that of the entire globe or world, from different versions, perceptions, perspectives, points-of-view, variations, forms, counterparts, tales, beliefs, traditions, telling, retelling, myths, conceptions, stories, and/or narratives are what helps me personally and individually to have enough or even more information and education about them, to weigh them, look at their pros and cons, spot for their biases, also spot for and be aware of my own personal and individual biases about Philippine or even any other places' prehistory and/or history, or even that of the entire globe or world, and then make up my mind and choose or decide which among them should I allow or let my self to learn and be educated or to learn more and be educated more, or to develop, build, or have my own personal and individual version/s, perception/s, perspective/s, point/s-of-view, variation/s, form/s, counterpart/s, tale/s, belief/s, tradition/s, telling, retelling, myth/s, conception/s, story/ies, and/or narrative/s of Philippine or even any other places' prehistory and history, or even that of the entire globe or world, from all of the other people that I communicated, listened, watched or viewed, and/or read from in my life, whether they're Filipinos themselves or non-Filipinos. In the end, no one is sure, exact, nor accurate of and on what really happened in the past, but we can only unfortunately rely on whatever multitude to just limited and rare sources and resources we had, we have, we can have, and/or we will have, or even we will ever have. After all, the past is different with history and the prehistory that comes before it. Thank you for this informative and educational animated video, for I am relearning things I already knew, I am learning new things I didn't know before, and there are some things in the video that made me go, "Hmm...I know that's inaccurate, mistaken, or wrong. I think that's inaccurate, mistaken, or wrong. I am not sure with that one. I don't know with that one. I don't have knowledge, expertise, or specialty with or on that one. Hmm...interesting!" about my own country and nation-state.

good job kudos to the video creator Knowledgia

This was informative. All I ever learned about the Philippines, if we ever did in school, was that Magellan discovered it and conquered it for Spain. Then after a few centuries, America took it from Spain. Who later fought Japan over the Philippines then granted the Philippines independence.

Amazing history where did get that knowledge of the past and history..Interesting👍👍👍

*Shout out to the People of Mindanao* Ramdan Mubarak ☪️☪️✅️✅️

It was a magnificent historical coverage video about the ancient history of Phillipines apergalago islands

This is much better than the older video that you made about Philippine history, but there are still inaccuracies.

as born and raised as filipino, this kind history never taught in schools or in my school. i wonder why. all they taught in history is lapu-lapu, magellan, and the heroes like rizal and the rest. and unending political history. they didn't taught this things. this is the first time i heard this history so thank you very much for this.

Deped please include this in the curriculum. Dili sigeg pangwarta ang huna hunaon 😂

I want to see a continuation of this video. I hope the creator will indicate his source and references. I liked this. It gave me additional information about the Philippines.

Thanks for this.

This proves that pre colonial Philippine civilisations definitely werent barbaric stone age tribes like most of the world thinks. They were highly civilised with stratified polities in each of the islands, conducting trade with foreigners, wearing clothing of different kinds, practicing peaceful spiritual/ancestral worship beliefs, accepting the religions of foreigners, even learning how to read and write (each polity had their own writing and reading systems). By the time the Spaniards arrived, the Maynila Rajahnate, was capable of manufacturing small quantities of gunpowder and even had a blacksmith who was capable of manufacturing Lantaka cannons. All civilisations in pre colonial Philippines were all capable of blacksmithing, usually for making weapons either to use or trade. Many of the weapons were made with iron blades with wooden handles, cause that was the standard custom and practice for weapon making throughout the archipelago. And there's no records of cannibles in pre colonial Philippines and definitely no religious practices related to cannibalism. The true barbarians were the natives in the America's. Before the Spanish came, they were either stone age tribes or Bronze age civilisations with very barbaric cannibalistic religions.

I've read some articles that Datu Lapu-Lapu was acting like a pirate and attacking Rajah Humabon's traders that is they became an enemy. and Lapu-Lapu was just saving himself against attacking Spanish under the command of Magellan in behalf of Humabon's wish to arrest Lapu-lapu. and since Lapu-Lapu killed magellan he became a Hero of the Philippines. Lapu-lapu didnt do it for the Luzon-Visayas-Mindanao.

That was very interesting. Good job, well told. Happy Trails from Florida

Thank you🎉

origin of Austronesian people somewhere in Southern China.. and started migrated in Maritime Southeast Asia during Han Chinese conquest against ancient people in Southern China.. it was well known in chinese history as "Hundred Yue" in english term is "Hundred Barbarians". indigenous people in the Philippines were Negrito people with their curly hair and dark skin.

I am a new subscriber on your channel. Great video content here!

Thank you 👍👍👍

Thank you very much for this video... Love from the archipelago (they called the Philippines)

Native Filipinos has 4 decades to prepare for Spanish next conquest but failed to unite their small kingdoms against common foreign enemy 😢

I'm from Lapu Lapu City and very thankful for the knowledge about Lapu Lapu. And by the way my favorite fish is Lapu lapu. I love escabeche lapu lapu, grilled lapu lapu and tinolang lapu lapu. Also kilawin Na lapu lapu. I also like kulafu which sounds like lapu lapu.

Negrito groups were the first inhabitants to settle in the prehistoric Philippines.

3:24 Laguna cooperplate also prove the connection between philiphines and medang kingdom in java indonesia.

that was awesome!

wow! kudos to you sir!

Yes our ancestor is Taiwanese aborigines not indonesians or malays this will contradict to what they teach to our school which our ancestors are malays.The migration patterns is from north to south which means from Taiwan to Indonesia and Malaysia not the other way around.

The map of Tondo is unfortunately wrong and exaggerated. This has been a common myth that kept circulating on and on. In reality they only occupied even less than what is modern-day Tondo. They were rich though. But they were only a mere city state. Please fix this mistake, even Wikipedia doesn't say there was a giant empire called Tondo let alone academic sources. Look it up. Map aside, the research done here is good. Its mostly only the map that has the issue. In RU-vid we can see many people repeat the same mistake over and over so its best for us to avoid it

thanks for featuring Philippine history.

Wonderful knowledge! This was never taught in my school days History started from Lapu Lapu killing Magellan Very interesting Thank you for the research and presenting this!

The reason why Homabon welcomed the Spaniards was simply because of his jealousy towards Lapu-lapu. Before the Spaniards arrived, Lapu-lapu was already exiled by Rajah Homabon to the island of Mactan where almost no plants can grow abundantly because of the nature of the rocky island. You see, Homabon was a short stocky person just about 5ft in height Rajah while Lapu-lapu was a strong muscular tall chieftain (rank general nowadays) who has absolute control and command to his people. It also humored that even the most beautiful wife Juana of the Raj homabon cannot even hide her eyes on Lapu-lapu when he passes by. Lapu-lapu was a great commander who was loved by the people of Cebu, the Rajah cannot kill Lapu-lapu for it will only spark a civil war amongst his people. So when Magellan came, he thought it was a wise decision to be friends of newcomers and even prepared the biggest welcome festival for the guests, even willingness to convert his religion just to prove his intentions. (Which was considered taboo during that time). The Spaniards didn't include this narrative because they are hiding the fact that Magellan died because he was tricked by Homabon.

The video, unfortunately, has an error. It did not mention that Magellan arrived in Cebu before they pushed for Mactan, as well their travel to Limasawa Island.

I sincerely hope all of what is said here is proven facts. I'm Filipino, 32 years living in PH since birth and I haven't learn much from our own history class before the Spaniards came. Thank you for this!

The Philippines name before was Ophir that supplied gold to Solomon to build his temple long before BCE.

Was surprised on the similarities of our language (Bisaya) when I went to Bali, Indonesia. Eg. "Usa, duha, tulo, etc." which means "one, two, three, etc." I'm from the Philipines btw.

Hispanista would always say there aren't any civilizations in Philippines before Spanish empire , but they were wrong from the start.

This is the kind of subject that needs to be taught more in school. Understanding what we used to do before being subjugated by the Spanish is extremely fascinating.

4:15 Aliping Sagigilid at Aliping Namamahay or Stay out and Stay in Helper in Modern version✌️😊

The crazy part is how today's some Pilipino historians tends misrepresent Lapu Lapu as the first Filipino to resist the Spaniards neglecting the fact that Lapu is not a Filipino in fact his tribe was in conflict against the Cebuanos. It should be noted that Lapu Lapu was the Mactanian that resisted the Spaniards. The first Filipinos that resisted the Spaniards would be after Spain has officially claim and name the archipelago the Philippines.

Love from india😊..

Fascinating subject matter but the presentation and narration are a dealbreaker.

This was interesting to watch as an adult. Of course, we all learned these stuff in elementary school but that was decades ago for me

If those spaniards stayed in Cebu and didn't move to luzon, they would have been totally anihalted. But thanks to the people of luzon kissed their arse and that's were they get to position themselves and ruled the people. As a Cebuano, we won't allow that.

Just a note Datus are actually pronounce "Da-twos" because the singular word is called Datu.

It was very interesting 🌹🙂‍↕️

Good job

Bisaya pirates went hard 🔥😭🙏

Love the philippines🇵🇭✝️❤

Amazing Video, Want Video After 1521

magnificent history

it’s hard to accept stated facts here. it actually raised more questions than digestible facts. witten history of the Philippines is practcally absent, with just some severely fragmented information and details that makes it seem like a legend or fiction

Lol they forgot that the ATI tribes live here first. Before they were almost eliminated by most of our ancestors who stole these lands. A lot of them flee towards the mountains and hide from the tyranny of malay folks. Sad but thats one of our history hidden truths. We like to play the victim which at some point we did but The Ati have been pushed way too much. Even these days they dont have the sam privilege like most of us do. Yes before spain most of our ancestors are the first invaders.

I love this channel. Hi from biringan😊

Very cool ~!'

Guam, Hawaii and the Marianas was once the great pacific empire of the sultans of the Philippines. But when Spain arrived it was the end of the old history and the old ways died out.

Champa is in south Vietnam, it’s not Indonesian 😂

Love to the Philippines from America!

Such a rich history!

Philippines 🇵🇭 ✝️❤️

Not really accurate, the first contact of Filipinos with western world was before Magellan. Kapampangans, which dominates Luzon sail and trade in Malacca where Porteugese are already present.

Woah, that is why a girl I knew from Sabah (North of Malaysia, beside Sulu) has a very distinctive dialect to our tagalog, visayas and mindanao dialects

How the information compiled in this presentation is far from verifiable to most people but the storylines are interesting and intriguing. What boils down is that as passage of time progresses, we are aware that so many events, big and small, unfold and take every place every step of the way many of which are now unnoticed by present generations. Not many can even track more recent historical events prior to the second world war. Far back these periods, are basically uninteresting and already insignificant no matter the heroics taking place at the time. These should remind current people in government who are privileged to sit in positions of decision-making. They too, will become passe' and become part of the story to tell. Therefore nothing of significance they do will matter much later on. The grandstanding and temporary showcasing of politicians will be nothing compared with the vastness of history. The aggressions, insulting behaviors and unbecoming decorum will just be theirs to keep and nothing will boil down to matters of element and insignificance as they themselves exit and take the backs seats. xxxx

If you're new to the Philippines don't rely on this computer generated voice to enunciate Tagalog words properly.

Am I the only one here that thinks that the Philippines is shaped like the British Isles? With Luzon as Scotland, Visayas and Mindanao as England, and Palawan as Ireland?

Philippine geographic map has distinctive characteristics that set it apart from other geographic maps. Very Unique..

Wala nang mas hihigit pa sa totoong kultura natin! Our history before colonization deserves to be highlighted and give importance because it’s an integral part of our identity as Filipinos!

May tanong ako bakit nasa subject natin noon ang chinese history? ano ambag non sa buhay natin

PROUD of PANAY ISLAND.. We never ever had an Islamic Influence. Always Polytheistic Animism with Hindu-Buddhist influences to Roman Catholicism still today hybrid with polytheistic-animist beliefs. We have ZERO ISLAMIC INFLUENCE that's why people of PANAY are always Peaceful and Kind with Festive Spirit and Vibrant Culture.

for more info: magellan's first contact with the filipinos was around 11 years prior to the expedition. a filipino historian here in yt actually tells how magellan first hears about the Philippines

Finally a history of Ore Historic Philippines! Lets go.

Tondo is just a small settlement. Even though weakers settlements were under their influence, those settlements were still independent and had their own laws.

If anyone's wondering how's Tondo doing now, its definitely not the great power it once was💀...