FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
Question
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centralized government
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local government
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national government
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Spain introduced Catholic dogma and worship, a highly centralised government, bureaucracy and Roman law. The Philippines was divided into provinces composed of clustered villages, towns and cities.
Detailed explanation-2: -Spain established a centralized colonial government in the Philippines that was composed of a national government and the local governments that administered provinces, cities, towns and municipalities.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Philippine colony was governed by Spaniards, by laws made in Spain, and for the sole good of the mother country and its representatives in the colony. Filipinos held only minor offices. They were not given the benefits of public education and their rights and wishes were almost completely ignored.
Detailed explanation-4: -Before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, most people lived in small independent villages called barangays, each ruled by a local paramount ruler called a datu.
Detailed explanation-5: -The form of government in Spain is a parliamentary monarchy, that is, a social representative democratic constitutional monarchy in which the monarch is the head of state, while the prime minister-whose official title is “President of the Government"-is the head of government.