Who Discovered the Philippines? — Transcript

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1. 0:03or almost 500 years ago on March 16th
2. 0:071521 ferdinan mellan famously discovered
3. 0:11what is now the Philippines discovered
4. 0:14yes as if what we now called the
5. 0:16Philippines and its islands and its
6. 0:18people had never existed as if they were
7. 0:20just hidden underneath the Waters of the
8. 0:22vast Pacific Ocean a place no one knew
9. 0:25existed until this guy showed up and
10. 0:28said I found you now you belong to my
11. 0:31king so today let us learn more about
12. 0:33this discovery of the Philippines let's
13. 0:37begin at number one Ferdinand mellan was
14. 0:40a Portuguese sailor for the king of
15. 0:43Spain he was credited for being the
16. 0:45first to
17. 0:47circumnavigate or in other words sail
18. 0:50around the world but at number two in
19. 0:54reality mellan did not even complete his
20. 0:57own expedition he was killed by the
21. 1:00natives of the visayas allegedly by
22. 1:02local ruler datu lapulapu in the Battle
23. 1:04of maktan in what is now the Philippines
24. 1:07half way around the world so technically
25. 1:10he was not the first to circumnavigate
26. 1:13the Earth fer and mellan was slain
27. 1:16before he was able to completely sail
28. 1:18around the world so at number three it
29. 1:20was his second in command one Sebastian
30. 1:23Alano who led the surviving Spanish
31. 1:26Sailors to continue and complete the
32. 1:28voyage and thus successfully sailing
33. 1:31around the world proving that indeed the
34. 1:34Earth was not flat but were they really
35. 1:37the first one to sail around the world
36. 1:40at number four in this expedition ferdan
37. 1:43mellan was accompanied by a slave named
38. 1:45Enrique de malaka otherwise known as
39. 1:48Henry the black he was a native of the
40. 1:51Saudi Asian archipelago who was enslaved
41. 1:53by the Portuguese at the very young age
42. 1:56upon arriving in the Philippines Enrique
43. 1:58was able to communicate with with the
44. 2:00natives of the visan islands using his
45. 2:02own mother tongue the Malay language or
46. 2:05what are now known as bahas malayu or
47. 2:08Bahasa Indonesia and for whatever reason
48. 2:11Enrique stayed in the Visas when Alano
49. 2:13left to complete the Expedition it is
50. 2:16not known whether Enrique left Sibu to
51. 2:18come home to malaka in what is now
52. 2:20Malaysia but considering Enrique's
53. 2:22austronesian roots from what are now the
54. 2:24islands of Southeast Asia that he may
55. 2:26very well be the first person known to
56. 2:29success fully circumnavigate the world
57. 2:31and his ability to communicate with the
58. 2:33natives of the visan islands proves
59. 2:35another contradicting point to the
60. 2:37so-called discovery of the Philippines
61. 2:40so at number five so was the Philippines
62. 2:43really discovered and was it really
63. 2:44mellin and his crew who were the first
64. 2:46foreigners or Outsiders to arrive and
65. 2:49discover these isolated Islands We Now
66. 2:51call the Philippines the answer is no
67. 2:55the islands that now make up the
68. 2:57Philippines had long been interconnected
69. 2:59with other parts of the world it belongs
70. 3:01to the vast austronesian family of
71. 3:03Nations spanning the oceans in between
72. 3:06Africa Asia and the Americas and along
73. 3:10with the rest of Southeast Asia it sits
74. 3:12at the heart of a vast network of
75. 3:15civilizations from the Arab world to
76. 3:17ancient China to ancient India and yes
77. 3:20even as far as Africa and Polynesia
78. 3:23Travelers Traders and migrants from all
79. 3:25these places have traveled across what
80. 3:27is now the islands of saude Asia
81. 3:30including the Philippines they exchanged
82. 3:32many things between one another at a
83. 3:34time when Europe was still reeling from
84. 3:37its Dark Ages so no the Philippines was
85. 3:40not discovered by Ferdinand mellan or
86. 3:42any other European for that matter if
87. 3:45anything it was Europe that was indeed
88. 3:47isolated from the rest of the Civilized
89. 3:50world at this point in human history so
90. 3:53now what well it is important for us
91. 3:55younger generations to reclaim our own
92. 3:58histories our own roots and decolonize
93. 4:00our minds from the generations if not
94. 4:03centuries of miseducation brought about
95. 4:05by colonialism and imperialism Upon Our
96. 4:08People and like what we always say no
97. 4:10history no self no history no self and
98. 4:13that is it for me today to learn more
99. 4:15about this topic check out the links in
100. 4:17the description below and until next
101. 4:19timeit or in kabang mik bye