Why did the Spaniards, Japanese, and Americans conquered the Philippines?

Question

Of course, in different times, but what made these three countries want to invade the Philippines and change the culture of the native Filipinos?

The Filipinos have Spanish first and last names, Filipinos are also taught the English language in schools, most of them even have Hispanic, Japanese, and American features.

I don't even know what our ancestors look like or what their culture was before the Spaniards, Japanese, and Americans came over.

Answer 1

The Spaniards, like many European countries were trying to expand their land and develop trade routes.

The Japanese where trying to overcome their limited resources.

The Americans just kicked out the Japanese and return the Philippines to their own government in exchange for maintaining military bases their.

It is believed that the people of the Philippines were great sea travelers and were the ones that discovered and populated the various Polynesian islands including Hawaii and Easter. So you might want to look at those people to see what your ancestors looked like.

Answer 2

I don't know the real reason but if I had to take a guess it would be 1) for some economic gain of some sort. That is pretty much what wars are about. Either economical gain or religious belief.
2) As a trategical place to have your troops. An outpost. There are some land marks that give you an military advantage over others.

Answer 3

Our ancestors are the Aetas, the Malays, among others.

If I recall our history correctly, the Spaniards collonized us for spices. The Japanese conquered us during the war. And the Americans liberated us from the Japanese yet also collonized us.

Answer 4

i'm Colombian, French-Colombian unquestionably. nicely, there are too many motives. a million. The conquest: They nevertheless regard us as being inferior, lazy, stupid, etc. in basic terms because of the fact of being dark skinned, yet once you're an Argentinian (who're white ordinarily) or a gentle skinned Colombian, Mexican etc. they have no undertaking with you until eventually at last they hear your accessory. 2. they had a extensive wave of immigrants from South usa, the South people who bypass to Spain are ordinarily people who had not a good time here in Latin usa, so as that they % to bypass to Spain, and that they are often not that knowledgeable, so as that they stereotype any single Latino, as being uneducated (which potential, prostitutes, narco-traffickers, etc.) 3. Zapatero and his government love immigrants, so somebody who desires to bypass to Spain, is going to have incidence over Spaniards, so i might obtain unfastened guidance, pastime, even the nationality if I went there, on an identical time as Spaniards starve... so as that they are resentfull because of the fact of that. They blame us for the disaster (inspite of the undeniable fact that it replaced into unquestionably banks' fault) So seem on the Spanish guy, he says he's united states of america isn't racist, 'reason we've incidence over them, a prevalente given by way of the government... yet hiya! Why do you ***** approximately that so? i'm going to tell you a tiny historic previous, Spain went by using a dictatorship, Franco's dictatorship, in that element, Fraco taught Spaniards the thank you to be nationalist, which potential racist against issues that are actually not Spanish, the old as quickly as and adults over 30 greater or much less, tent to be very racist against us, because of the fact Fraco taught them to be like that... while that befell, Spaniards got here here a lot, and we are nevertheless crammed with them, in international locations including Venezuela, Argentina, Puerto Rico, etc. it particularly is a social undertaking given by way of the old Spanish guidance...

Answer 5

Because they could. Everyone conquers the Phillipines, even the Phillipinos. If that doesn't work, just wait for God to unleash the next Tsunami, or Volcanic eruption, or earth quake. Keep it up, and there won't be any phillipines left to conquer - it will have sunk