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    Rizal annotated Antonio de Morga's book "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" to correct distorted facts about Philippine history during Spanish conquest and to prove that Filipinos were civilized before. Rizal disagreed with claims that the climate was opposite of Europe's, bodies were tattooed differently, and foods were rotten. He aimed to awaken Filipino consciousness of their glorious pre-colonial past and shaped history with accurate facts from his annotations.

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    Annotation of Antonio

    Morga's Sucesos Delas


    Islas Filipinas
    Events in the Philippines Islands.
    ANNOTATION - IS A NOTE OF
    EXPLANATION OR ADDED TEXT.

    SUCCESOS - WORK OF AN HONEST


    OBSERVER, A VERSATILE, WHO KNOW
    THE WORKINGS OF ADMINISTRATION
    INSIDE.

    LAS ISLAS FILIPINAS - MEANS THE


    PHILIPPINE ISLANDS.

    Researcher 1:
    John Peter Rabec
    Researcher 2:
    Baldwin Jake Pelagio
    Organizer 1:
    Dhice Mervhiel Serrano
    Reporter/Mr. Speaker:
    Chryz John Sumugat
    Antonio de Morga Sanchez Garay
    November 29, 1559 - July 21, 1636
    Spanish Soldier
    Lawyer
    Historian and Colonial
    Publisher of the Sucesos delas islas
    Filipinas

    The first-ever book tackles the


    Philippine History
    Anotated by Dr, Jose Rizal

    Morga's Succesos De las Islas Filipinas


    distorted facts about the Philippines
    to fit his defense of the Spanish
    Conquest.

    How did Rizal know about


    Morga's work?

    Chapter 1 - Magellan and Legazpi's


    seminal expeditions.
    Chapter 2-7 - Chronological
    report on government
    administration under Governor-
    General.
    Chapter 8 - Philippine Islands the
    natives there, their antiquity
    custom and government.

    WHAT LEADS TO DR. RIZAL TO ANNOTATE


    THE SUCESOS DELAS ISLAS FILIPINAS

    1. He was a seeker of truth.


    2. Dr. Rizal desired to know on what happened to the Philippines during the Spanish
    Era.
    3. The original book was rare.
    4. Morga is a layman, not a religious chronicler.
    5. Rizal felt Morga be more "objective" than religious writers who included many
    miracles stories.

    TWO (2) CATEGORIES IN RIZAL'S


    ANNOTATION

    1. Rizal corrects the original on "the


    straightforward historical annotation"
    2. Historical based reflect his anticlerical bias.

    MAIN PROPOSITION OF RIZAL'S


    ANNOTATION

    1. To awaken the consciousness of the Filipinos of their


    glorious ways of the past.
    2. To correct the distorted facts about the Philippines'
    history of the Spanish conquest.
    3. Proved that Filipinos are civilized before the Spanish
    conquest.

    MORGA'S
    RIZAL'S
    ANNOTATION ANNOTATION
    GEOGRAPHY
    Inhabitable Habitable using the 3 Islands.
    Extend up to 12 degrees Exactly 25 degrees and 40
    south latitude minutes latitude north, until

    12 degrees latitude south


    CLIMATE
    winter and summer are In Manila, Dec-Feb down
    opposite of those in Europe. more than during Aug-Sept.
    June-September is rainy, and In season, it resembles Spain
    October-May is summer. as all the rest of the

    northern hemisphere.

    BODY TATTOO
    Draws pattern first before Rizal agreed, it is the same
    putting black powder where method as the Japanese.

    the bloods gouge out.


    PLANTS SPECIES
    Betel or Buyo, Pickles and Betel is "Kasubha" in Tagalog.

    Ginger are adundant.


    MORAL PRINCIPLES
    Men and women are money- We find it everywhere in the
    loving and in capital so when world even in Europe.
    there is a price, they yield. Indios have hygenic customs
    Bathing their body on rivers which is the proper way of
    or streams regardless of taking a bath.

    their age.

    GOVERNMENT
    There are no more kings or Rizal agreed, that there
    Lords to rule them. were no such kings.

    FOODS
    They prefer to eat salt fish It is called "Bagoong" and all
    which begin to decompose those who have eaten it and
    and smell. tasted it know that is not or

    ought to be not rotten.


    ECONOMY

    the natives of the islands sell Rizal agreed, it is a very


    the artifacts to the Japanese. interesting history shaped

    and valued with the rice of


    one hundred offered for one
    of them.

    WHAT IS THE
    IMPORTANCE OF
    RIZAL'S ANNOTATION
    TO THE PRESENT
    GENERATION?
    "To foretell the destiny of a
    nation, it is necessary to open the
    books that tell of her past."

    DR. JOSE RIZAL


    THANK YOU !

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