The document summarizes Antonio de Morga's book "Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas" and Jose Rizal's annotations on it. Morga's book describes events in the Philippines from 1493-1603 and discusses the country's political, social, and economic aspects under colonization. Rizal annotated the book to (1) awaken Filipino consciousness of their pre-colonial culture and history, (2) correct distortions made by the Spanish, and (3) prove Filipinos were civilized before colonization. His annotations countered Morga's claims that the Philippines was deserted and its people inferior, instead showing Filipinos had a developed society and culture prior

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2. SUCESOS DE LAS ISLAS
FILIPINAS
- An account of Spanish
observations about the
Filipinos and the Philippines.
The Book
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3. Background information/ Important information about
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas
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1. Antonio De Morga - Author of Sucesos de las islas Filipinas.
2. This is one of the first books ever to tackle Philippine history.
3. Book that describes the events inside and outside of the country from 1493 to 1603, including the
history of the Philippines.
4. Consist of 8 Chapters.
5. Discuss the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer and the colonized country.
6. The content of the book is based on documentary research, observation and personal experience
of Morga.
7. Rizal is a secondary source of the book due to his Annotations.

4. Dr. Antonio de Morga
Spanish lawyer and official in the Philippines during the 17th century.
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The Philippines was named in
honor of King Philip II of Spain.
What is Las
Islas Filipinas?

6. EVENTS, HAPPENINGS, OCCURRENCE
The Sucesos is the work of an honest observer, a
versatile bureaucrat, who knew the workings of the
administration from the inside.
What is
Sucesos?
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7. Rizal’s
Objectives
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8. Rizal’s Objectives
1. To awaken the consciousness of the Filipinos regarding their glorious ways of the past
2. To correct what has been distorted about the Philippines due to Spanish conquest
3. To prove that Filipinos are civilized even before the coming of the Spaniards

9. Blumentritt’s Influence on Rizal
Ferdinand Blumentritt has encouraged Rizal to write about the Philippines’ pre-colonial History.

10. THE EARLY FILIPINO PRIDE
Rizal strove to establish that
the Filipinos could be proud of
their pre-conquest past.
The First
Objective
ON RIZAL’s ANNOTATION

11. ON RIZAL’s ANNOTATION
The Second
Objective
HISTORY AS A PROPAGANDA WEAPON
Rizal aimed to use history as a propaganda weapon.

12. EARLY
GOVERNMENT
Our forefathers in the
pre-colonial Philippines
already possessed a
working judicial and
legislative system

13. HIGH
LITERACY
RATE
The Spanish
missionaries exploited
the baybayin for their
own ends, learning and
using it to translate their
goals

14. EARLY
ARTILLERY
Our ancestors were very
proficient in the art of war.
Aside from wielding swords
and spears, they also knew
how to make and fire guns
and cannons.

15. SMOOTH
FOREIGN
RELATIONS
The pre-colonial Filipinos
had already established
trading and diplomatic
relations with countries
as far away as the
Middle East

16. SELF-
SUFFICIENT
In terms of food, our
forefathers did not suffer
from any lack thereof.
Blessed with such a
resource-rich country,
they had enough for
themselves and their
families

17. ADVANCED
CIVILIZATION
Our ancestors
possessed a complex
working society and a
culture replete with
works of arts and
literature

18. Important Points
● Sucesos De Las Islas Filipinas is the first book to tackle the Philippine history.
● The book discusses the political, social and economical aspects of a colonizer and the
colonized country.
● The book that describes the events inside and outside of the country from 1493 to 1603,
including the history of the Philippines.
● The pre-colonial Philippines already possessed a working judicial and legislative system
● Spanish missionaries put an end to the baybayin written system of the Philippines to translate
their goals
● Our ancestors possessed a complex society and culture filled with arts and literature

19. RIZAL’s Annotations Morga’s Sucesos
1. Philippines was NOT DESERTED and was actually
HABITABLE.
1. Philippines was DESERTED and INHABITABLE.
2. Spaniards, like any other nation, treat food to which they
are not accustomed or is unknown to them with disgust.
This fish that Morga mentions is bagoong (salted &
fermented fish).
2. Beef and fish they know it best when it has started to rot
and stink
Rizal’s Annotations vs. De Morga’s Sucesos ...

20. Rizal’s 3 Propositions
1. The people of the Philippines have a culture on their own, before the coming of the Spaniards
2. Filipinos were decimated, demoralized, exploited, and ruined by the Spanish colonization
3. The present state of the Philippines was not necessarily superior to its past

21. Jose Rizal as Philippines’ National Hero
● Rizal gave us freedom by using goodness.
● Jose Rizal became the Philippines’ National Hero because he fought for freedom in a silent
but powerful way.
● He expressed his love for the Philippines through his novels, essays and articles rather than
through the use of force or aggression.

22. “To foretell the destiny of a nation, it
is necessary to open the books that
tell of her past.”
- Rizal

23. Importance of Rizal’s Annotations to the present generation
● To awaken in the Filipinos the consciousness of our past
● To devote ourselves to studying the future
● To first lay bare the past, in order to better judge the present and to survey the road
trodden during three centuries
● To prove Filipinos had a culture of their own, prior to colonization, that the Filipinos
were NOT inferior to the white man
● To shatter the myth of the so-called “Indolence of the Filipinos”
● To reduce those Filipinos who denied their native tongue into rotten fish
● To seriously study Tagalog and produce a comprehensive Tagalog dictionary
● To embrace the generic term “Indio”, or in today’s case, Filipino, with all its negative
connotations, and turn it into one of dignity and nobility

24. Sources:
ONLINE:
1. https://filipiknow.net/life-in-pre-colonial-phil
ippines/
2. https://www.coursehero.com/file/p3ol5
23/o-RIZALS-ANNOTATION-OF-MOR
GAS-SUCESOS-DE-LAS-ISLAS-FILI
PINAS-Three-purposes-for/
3. https://www.slideshare.net/abbieelaine
kuhonta/sucesos-39902918
4. https://prezi.com/qawe8nczviaq/rizals-
annotation-of-sucesos-de-las-islas-filip
inas/
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