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The Philippines is a archipiélago located in the Pacific Ocean, in the south east of Asia and close to the Indochina Peninsula. With its capital in Manila its a multicultural country where a lot of different cultures: religión and different origins are mixed up together. Nowadays the Philippines have a constitutional republic with a president wich is the head of the executive power: Rodrigo Duterte and a parliament and its courts of justice. Its different contrasts between the mountains in the interior of the islands and the tropical beaches attract a lot of different tourists around the world and it is one of the most visited places in the world.

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Lenguage: Conquerors forced natives their lenguage .
Religion: Conquerors forced to change their believes and put their country ones.
Politics: The form of governing the territory chagend dramaticaly.
Medicine/diseases: Conquerors brought new diseases but they also brought medicines.
Education and industry where promoted

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Sports: The Americans introduced basketball and boxing to the native people and now Philippines is one of the top in Basketball Asia.
Filipino people eat lots of hot dogs, ham, burguers... all influenced by the americans.
Currently, they trade lots of goods with the americans, they have a very important trading relationship.
There are lots of people living in the Philippines that have americans succesors as a result of inte-racial marriages.
Filipino´s are used to buy american products because they think are better.
Filipino people started to used the English lenguaje more often.

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Religion: The Spaniards introduced Christianity and more than 90% were Catholic.
A lot of typical Spanish delicacies where introduced to thePhilippines for example the lechon.
The old churches in Philippines have a Spanish style architecture.
Communication: there are about 5000 words in the Spanish diccionary that where introduced to the Filipino´s daily life.
Many spanish ancestors marries with native people, thats why a lot of people have Spanish surname.
Spanish people influenced to the Filipino people in things like music, literature and poems.
Fashion: the Spaniards introduced a new way of dressing up.

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As there where 2 mother countries there where 2 processes of decolonization:
-Independence of Spain:  As the population of the islands wanted the independence USA helped them at the Spanish-American War in which America defeated Spain, Spain was forced to sign the Teatry of Paris in which the last Spanish colonies (including philippines) where sold to USA. USA plans where not only to help the islands for its independence from Spain but to have it like a colony so it became part of USA.
-Idependence of USA: when the Philippines became part of USA the population rebelled which resulted to a brutal war: the Philippine-American War which was won by USA. Thanks to the creation of  the Philippine Assembly the first formal and official declaration of the United States Independance was created and finally in 1946 Philippine Islands became independent.

The most important person in both independances was  Emilio Aguinaldo who was the leader of the philippines. He led his country to achieve independence after fighting off both the Spanish and the Americans. He also led the Philippine-American War against U.S. resistance to Philippine independence

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Image of the territories of the 2 parents countries afterthe disaster of the 98

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TERRITORY OF PHILIPPINES

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How did your parent country took over your country?

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How did your parent country took over your country?

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The Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony after it wad claimed by Ferdinant Magellan in 1521. Spain started to colonize it in 1565 when they formed the first European settlement in Cebu. Finally on 1 May of 1898 Commodore George Dewey defeated Spain near Manila during the Spanish-American war. This victory led USA gain control in Philippines and finally Spain sold it to the United States.

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Imperialism--> was the division of the world in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th

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Imperialism--> was the division of the world in the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th

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Colonizer: Spain and United States.
Colonized: Philippine Islands

Philippine Islands became a Spanish colony in 1521 but it became to be colonized in 1565. The population became to protest against the parent colony (Spain) and USA supported them and finally in 1898 the Islands where sold to USA
Philippine Islands where very important for the Spanish economy, Spain imported precious metals and foods which didn´t exist in Spain. For USA it was an strategic point for the USA army controlling part of Asia also they helped the native people of the Philippines which had terrible conditions of living and which wanted to be no longer a colony of Spain.
Philippine natives were treated as subhumans and a most of the were forced to work the land and in mines.