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In 1571, the Spanish, their Latin-American recruits and their Filipino (Visayan) allies, commanded by able conquistadors such as Mexico-born Juan de Salcedo (who was in love with Tondo's princess, Kandarapa, a romance his Spanish grandfather Miguel Lopez de Legaspi, disapproved of) attacked Maynila, a vassal-state of the Brunei Sultanate and ...
The test is a system-based assessment designed to gauge learning outcomes across target levels in identified periods of basic education. Empirical information on the achievement level of pupils/students serve as a guide for policy makers, administrators, curriculum planners, principles, and teachers, along with analysis on the performance of regions, divisions, schools, and other variables ...
Implementation process: May 20, 2008–June 5, 2017 School Grade level Ages Pre-elementary school: Kindergarten: 5-6 or 4-5 and up Basic education; Elementary school: Grade 1: 6-7 or 5-6 and up Grade 2: 7-8 or 6-7 and up Grade 3: 8-9 or 7-8 and up Grade 4: 9-10 or 8-9 and up Grade 5: 10-11 or 9-10 and up Grade 6: 11-12 or 10-11 and up Junior ...
Two of the most popular Filipino writers of the early 21st century include Rin Chupeco, who made a name for herself publishing Young Adult fiction, many of which were inspired by Filipino mythology from Maria Makiling to the Mangkukulam; [29] and Louis Bulaong, who is an important figure in the GameLit genre, and one who popularized the use of ...
Diwata: gender-neutral bracket term for fairies, gods, goddesses, nature spirits and nymphs [5] Higante: bracket term for giant humanoid land creatures. [6] Sirena: bracket term for water creatures with a humanoid upper body and the body of a fish from the waist down, similar to merfolk. [7]
The culture of the Philippines is characterized by great ethnic diversity. [1] Although the multiple ethnic groups of the Philippine archipelago have only recently established a shared Filipino national identity, [2] their cultures were all shaped by the geography and history of the region, [3] [4] and by centuries of interaction with neighboring cultures, and colonial powers.
The pre-colonial native Filipino script called baybayin was derived from the Brahmic scripts of India and first recorded in the 16th century. [13] According to Jocano, 336 loanwords in Filipino were identified by Professor Juan R. Francisco to be Sanskrit in origin, "with 150 of them identified as the origin of some major Philippine terms."
Mestizos as illustrated in the Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Yslas Filipinas, 1734. In the Philippines, Filipino Mestizo (Spanish: mestizo (masculine) / mestiza (feminine); Filipino/Tagalog: Mestiso (masculine) / Mestisa (feminine)), or colloquially Tisoy, is a name used to refer to people of mixed native Filipino and any foreign ancestry. [1]