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  2. Philippine literature - Wikipedia

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    The styles and themes used in Philippine literature were born from a combination of the country’s history, mythology, culture, and foreign influences, evolving throughout different periods while also adopting common writing philosophies and movements of the time. [ 1][ 2] Philippine literature encompasses literary media written in various ...

  3. Mestizo - Wikipedia

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    Predominantly Roman Catholic; religious minorities including Protestants and syncretism with Indigenous beliefs exist. Mestizo ( / mɛsˈtiːzoʊ, mɪs -/ mess-TEE-zoh, mis-; [1] [2] Spanish: [mesˈtiθo]; fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.

  4. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    A key to this was the cooperation between most indigenous elites with the new ruling structure. The Spanish recognized indigenous elites as nobles and gave them continuing standing in their communities. Indigenous elites could use the noble titles don and doña, were exempt from the head-tax, and could entail their landholdings into cacicazgos ...

  5. Alternate history - Wikipedia

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    A painting by Jakub Różalski depicts an alternate history of the 1920s, in which rural peasants must contend with giant mechanical walking tanks.. Alternate history (also referred to as alternative history, allohistory, [1] althist, or simply AH) is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which one or more historical events have occurred but are resolved differently than in actual history.

  6. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Essay. An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story. Essays have been sub-classified as formal and informal: formal essays are characterized by "serious purpose, dignity, logical organization ...

  7. Cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines - Wikipedia

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    The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippine archipelago's inhabitants, the pre-colonial forebears of today's Filipino people. Among the cultural achievements of the native people's belief systems, and culture in general, that are notable in ...

  8. Spanish Colonial architecture - Wikipedia

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    Historic center in Villa del Carbón, Mexico. Spanish colonial architecture represents Spanish colonial influence on the cities and towns of its former colonies, and is still seen in the architecture as well as in the city planning aspects of conserved present-day cities. These two visible aspects of the city are connected and complementary.

  9. Spanish naming customs - Wikipedia

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    Spanish names are the traditional way of identifying, and the official way of registering, a person in Spain. They are composed of a given name (simple or composite [a]) and two surnames (the first surname of each parent). Traditionally, the first surname is the father's first surname, and the second is the mother's first surname.