Sierra Madre | | religious order expelled by the pope in the middle18th century |
Acapulco | | the Chinese ghetto of Manila in the 17th and 18th centuries |
Balintawak | | ousted Marcos in popular revolt in 1986 |
Guam | | the central backbone of northern Luzon |
Lapulapu | | Boholano rebel aginst Spain |
Claveria | | the eastern backbone of Luzon |
Marcos | | decalred that Filipinos must take on Spanish surnames |
Cordillera | | the largest island |
Intramuros | | the monopoly crop developed uder the Basco governorship |
Parian | | founded the Spanish city of Manila out of a Muslim settlement |
Aquino | | the Spaniards called them the "little black ones" |
Luzon | | center of the powerful sultanate who controlled southern maritime trade |
Homonhon | | the walled city |
Yami | | northernmost island |
Aguinaldo | | declared martial law in 1972 |
Cebu | | Puerto Rico, the Philippines and this island were ceded to the US in 1898 |
Jesuit | | first president |
tobacco | | the first city founded by the Spaniards |
Negritos | | the Mexican port visited by the Manila galleons |
Mindanao | | the first Philippine island accidentally visited by Magellan |
Dagohoy | | second largest island |
Legazpi | | Cebuano chieftain who killed Magellan |
Sulu | | site of the famous "cry" against the Spaniards |