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The Audiencia was given supervision over the administration of the estates of deceased persons. Special attention received the trials of cases involving states from native owners, and a provision was made that: "our said president and Oidores shall always take great care to be informed of the crimes and abuses which are committed against the Indians under our royal crown, or against those ...
The discovery of this document marks the end of the prehistory of the Philippines at 900 AD. During this historical time period, the Philippine archipelago was home to numerous kingdoms and sultanates and was a part of the Indosphere and Sinosphere. [1] [2] [3] [4]
The history of the Philippines from 1565 to 1898 is known as the Spanish colonial period, during which the Philippine Islands were ruled as the Captaincy General of the Philippines within the Spanish East Indies, initially under the Viceroyalty of New Spain, based in Mexico City, until the independence of the Mexican Empire from Spain in 1821.
History of the Philippines (900 ... (17 C, 4 P) Women of medieval Japan (10 C, 37 P) Pages in category "Medieval Asia" ... Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period; J.
Water-ordeal; miniature from the Luzerner Schilling. Trial by ordeal was an ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or innocence of the accused (called a "proband" [1]) was determined by subjecting them to a painful, or at least an unpleasant, usually dangerous experience.
Maynila, also known commonly as Manila, was a major Islamic Tagalog bayan ("country" or "city-state") [6] [1] situated along the modern-day district of Intramuros in the city of Manila, at the southern bank of the Pasig River.
Before the arrival of Spanish colonial powers the Philippines did not actually exist. Southeast Asia is classified as part of the Indosphere [3] [4] and the Sinosphere. [5] [6] The archipelago has direct contact with China during Song dynasty (960-1279) [7] and has been a part of the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires. [8]
The Spanish quickly organized their new colony according to their model. The first task was the reduction, or relocation of indigenous Filipinos into settlements. The earliest political system used during the conquista period was the encomienda system, which resembled the feudal system in medieval Europe. The conquistadores, friars and native ...