![]() Their descendants, the Mores, have remained devout Mohammedans to this day.īy the time the Spaniards came to the islands, therefore, the Filipinos had developed a way of life and a distinct culture that were suitable and satisfactory to them. Moslems came into the Sulu Archipelago and Mindanao and converted the people. ![]() ![]() Mohammedanism swept over this area of the world in the latter part of the fifteenth century. From the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, the Philippine Islands were part of a great Hindu-Malayan empire ruled from Java and Sumatra in the neighboring islands to the southwest. ![]() Therefore much of what is known about pre-Spanish days-and there is still much to be uncovered-comes from the records of other countries which were in touch with the islands.Ĭenturies before the influence of the West was felt in the Philippines, the culture of India, China, and southeastern Asia had reached that country through the early settlers. Not that the country had not had a history and a culture and a literature before! But the Spaniards, in their religious zeal, destroyed the earlier records as completely as possible. ![]() The written record of the Philippine Islands starts with the coming of the Spaniards. ![]()
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