Manila galleon

Metro Manila is also known, as Metropolitan Manila is the national capital region of the Philippine. Metro Manila is an area where many tourists visit with their Mall of Asia and other tourist attraction. Metro Manila is the largest urban city in the Philippines with Americanize materials. In the Metro Manila filmed by Sean Ellis, it touched base on a poor man named Oscar Ramirez and his family who struggle to make a living in Banaue Province, Philippines and moved to Manila for a better life…

Understanding the patterns of immigration contributes to our conceptualization of place as a site of action and agency (amerasia journal). The first immigration wave happened while the Philippine islands still belonged to Spain and Manila galleons would stop by the United States for trade purposes in the 1860s. Some Filipinos ended up staying in the United States, but their numbers were too few to maintain a place and retain memories. The second immigration wave, also known as the manong…

Over the past years, traffic congestion has become a serious problem in Metro Manila, specifically the Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (EDSA). This results in loss of travel time, and huge economic and societal costs. "Traffic in the capital and its surroundings is already costing the country about P3 billion ($64 million) a day, or about 0.8% of gross domestic product, according to government figures" (Presse, 2016). The demand for transportation infrastracture has increased because they asociate…

Silver was very important to Spain during the silver trade. Spain got there silver from the Philippines and Potosi, Peru, and from trading with china and other countries and merchants. The atlantic ocean was used constantly when the Philippines trades with spain, 5/7ths of all the silver available in the atlantic ocean was traded with each other and this helped cause global trade.¬ Silver was the cause of the age of exploration in Europe and china. Silver was very valuable to china; it was the…

Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeno Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeno was a navigator and he was a talented explorer who was very talented. He was very kind and he was trustworthy he thought of himself a great. His birthdate was April 6 1560. He then died 1602. He was born in Sesimbra Portugal. He was born there but soon moved to go have fun and explore everywhere. Cermeno has a lot of character traits including: Brave, courageous, adventurous, hardworking responsible, humble, encouraging,…

Ferdinand Magellan was a well-known figure in the Philippine History. He was a Portuguese explorer who gives Spain their fame because of his expedition looking for westward route to Moluccas that result to the first circumnavigation of the Earth. With the consent of the King of Spain, Magellan then with five ships and more than 300 men began their voyage. As Magellan’s trip landed in the Philippines, he met Rajah Humabon of Cebu and became friend with him. Humabon then embraced Christianity as…

immigrants were mostly Chinese. Their first stop in the western hemisphere was not North American, but Central America (Mexico), and they arrived on ships of the Manila Galleon. The Manila Galleons were Spanish trading ships that made round-trip sailing voyages once or twice per year across the Pacific Ocean from the port of Acapulco, to Manila in the Philippines, which were both part of New Spain. But, the first large-scale immigration of Asians into the U.S. didn't happen until 1848, around…

I. The European Reconnaissance of the World’s Oceans: b/w 1400-1800, European mariners launched series of exploratory voyages 1. Motives for Exploration –prompted Europeans to explore the world’s oceans. Search for basic resources and lands, establish new trade routes to Asian markets, and expand the influence of Christianity. a) Portuguese Exploration: -poor kingdom of Portugal searched for fresh resources and lands -from 13th century, Portuguese seamen ventured away from coasts to…

La Leyenda Negra or the Black Legend was a term used to describe the image of the Spaniards since the 16th century. It was not new information to the world that Spain had been very powerful in the past, and that they were able to colonize and influence a massive part of the world. Spain had influenced its colonies in culture, economic, politics, and religion, but for some of these colonized countries, the influences and contributions of the Spaniards did not bring a positive effect in their…

It makes sense that it is of high value because its location makes it strategically important and the resources found there are abundant, thus, many powerful nations would want to take control of it. Tope and Nonah-Mercado both write that the Manila galleon trade brought far-eastern goods like silk, porcelain, spices and pearls to the west (7). The abundance of resources that the Philippines was able to provide for the far west was awe-inspiring. Also, those abundance of resources was a solid…