Answer the following questions briefly.
1. Who named the Philippines?
The Philippines is named after King Philip II, the monarch who ruled Spain in the 16
th
century, when Spain claimed the archipelago as a colony. The name was coined,
when Philip was still a prince, by the Spanish conquistador Ruy Lopez de Villalobos,
who sailed from Mexico in 1542 in hopes of reaching the Philippines but was unable
to find a way back.
Formal Name: Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas). Short Form:
Philippines (Pilipinas). Term for Citizen(s): Filipino (s). The symbolic name for the
Philippines, Juan dela Cruz, is not a Filipino invention. It was coined by R.
McCulloch-Dick, a Scottish-born journalist working for the Manila Times in the early
1900s, after discovering it was the most common name in blotters.
2. Compare and contrast at least three of Morga’s accounts and Rizal’s
annotation of the culture of ancient Filipinos?
