RPH - Historical data & analysis & First Voyage

History

It is derived from the Greek word “historia” which means learning by inquiry.

Factual history

It present the base and plain information to the reader with emphasis only of ‘who’ , ‘what’ , ‘when’ , and ‘where’ of history.

Speculative history

It goes beyond dates, places, persons, events because it attempts to explain the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of events.

Historians

Individuals who write about history.

Historiography

The practice of historical writing.

Verisimilitude

The truth, authenticity, plausibility about a perished past.

Historical Method

The process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past.

Historiography

The imaginative reconstruction of the past from the data derived by that process.

Historical analysis

The process of selecting the subject to investigate.

Historical data

The source from artefacts that have been left by the past.

Historical sources

The materials from which the historians construct meaning.

Relics or ‘Remains’

The existence which offers researchers a clue about the past.

Testimonies of witnesses

The oral or written details which, may have been to serve as records.

Narrative or Literature

Chronicles or tracts presented in narrative form, written to impart a message whose motives for their composition vary widely.

Scientific Tract

Typically composed in order to inform contemporaries or succeeding generations.

Diplomatic sources

Understood to be those which documented/record an existing legal situation or create a new one. A historical source that professional historians considered as the purest the best source.

Social documents

Information pertaining to economic, social, political, or judicial significance. They are records kept by bureaucracies.

Material evidence

One of the most important unwritten evidence. Includes artistic creations such as pottery, jewelry, dwellings, graves churches, and roads.

Oral evidence

The tales and sagas of ancient peoples and the folk songs or popular rituals. During the present age, interview is another major form.

Primary sources

The original and first hand account of an event or period that are usually written or made during or close to the event or period.

Secondary sources

The materials made by people long after the events being described had taken place to provide valuable interpretations of historical events.

Historical criticism

It examines the origins of earliest text to appreciate the underlying circumstances upon which the text came to be. To determine the authenticity of the material. To weigh the testimony of the truth.

Internal criticism

It examines the trustworthiness of the testimonies as well as the probability of the statements to be true.

External criticism

It determines the authenticity of the source.

Content analysis

A systematic evaluation of the primary source be it a text, painting, caricature, and/or speech that in the process students could develop readings and present an argument based on their own understanding of the evidence.

Contextual Analysis

It considers specifically the time, place, and situation the primary source was written. The analysis includes the author’s background, authority on the subject and intent perceptible, and its relevance and meaning to people and society today.

Isographies

The dictionaries of biography giving examples of handwriting.              

Anachronistic References

The dating of a document at a time when the alleged writer could not possibly have been at the place designated (the alibi) uncovers fraud.

Antonio pigafetta

The complete name of the chronicler of the document entitled '' the voyage around the world”

Atlantic ocean

It is the first ocean where the sailing ships headed by Ferdinand Magellan crossed after leaving Spain in 1519

Strait of Magellan

It is the small passage or isthmus traversed by Magellan’s fleet somewhere at the tip of the south american continent.

Pacific ocean

It is the vast water body that can be found east of the philippine islands.

Mazaua

It is the term used by pigafetta which refers to the island where the historic mass was celebrated.

Little statue of the Sto. Niño

It refers to the gift which was given by Magellan to the native queen.

Lapu-Lapu

It refers to the name of the chief of matan (mactan) who had defended his people, territory, and defeated Magellan in the battle.

April 27, 1521

It is the complete date of the historic battle of matan (mactan).

Juana

It refers to the christian name given to the first baptized queen who had the great desire for conversion according to pigafetta.

September 6, 1522

It is the exact date of the arrival of the remaining fleet in San Lucar, Spain.

Juan de Plasencia

A missionary, dedicated himself to comprehend and recording the customs and lifestyle of the tagalogs.

Governed them and were captains in their wars, and whom they obeyed and reverenced.

Datos

Barangay

Tribal gathering

Nobles

Maharlica

Commoners

Aliping namamahay

Slaves

Aliping sa guiguilir

Sigillographers

Historical seals that have been the focus of specialized research by specialist