How much you know the history of your country? Or as you do not know!

Oh-------that was exactly our lessons in history before. Today, I still know about the general history of Philippines or known before as Archipelago de San Lazaro. However, I am afraid I forgot already the detailed one. Spaniards colonized our ancestors for more than 300 years. But before them, several merchants had been visiting the islands before the ice age. Where countries are said to be connected like japan, Taiwan, Brunei and many other Asian countries today. Malay and Chinese where our first forefathers. They visited the Island as Merchants, exchanging their textiles or cloths by the harvest of the natives. Meanwhile, the Portuguese Magellan went to the King of Spain. (I had known lately that Magellan was not really coming from Spain, but his homeland was Portugal). He led the expedition together with 5 ships Victoria and the other 4 with thousands of men to seek for more territories and finding the spice Island. (Victoria was the only ship survived to go back Spain after Magellan slayed by our hero Lapu-Lapu). They Landed in Homonhon Island (But there are so many theories now that Homonhon was not the first Island landed by them (I don't know till now which is true), and before the Magellan team, there were so many Spaniards team who tried to colonize the Philippines but they didn't succeed. Our ancestors was deceived by the good purpose of Magellan, the Cristian-ism.) To make the story short, after them we were colonized by Japanese and Americans until we got finally our freedom. To trace our ancestral blood, we are already mixed by now. But most of our cultures are coming from Malay and Chinese in fact many of our Tagalog words are coming from them e.g. anak and many others. Zamboanga and other parts of the Philippines who had been camps or community of Spaniards, mostly people there have divided chin and speaking like of Spanish mixed with their dialects... Mano Po and other good virtues were gifts to us from the kind Chinese people. Thanks PA

I'm pretty proficient in my knowledge of the history of my country and the effects that it had on the rest of the world. I am strong in three areas - Mediaeval times, the mid 17th century and late 19th century. In my opinion children should be taught more that they currently are about the history of their countries. We can learn an awful lot from what our ancestors did. I am often told that history is "boring". It can be, but in my experience it's history teachers that are dull and idle. If they bring it to life for the children then they will cement learning that will remain for a lifetime.

I can proudly say I know a lot about the History of my country India. There is simply so much to read about it and trust me it is not a bit boring at all. It is full of excitement.I love reading any history book I can grab my hand on. Only on reading it we really get to know why the culture is defined as so rich and beautiful.

i know i learned my history well in school. and even it was more than half of my life ago, i still remember most of them. prime here had told us more of where we came from or how filipinos are these days.

I think if you talk about how much i know the history of my country then i will always seem to be a novice. Cause i am an indian and india has a very anicient civilization with a great history. so how much i know i come to know that lesser i know. so here i found my self allways empty handed.

I know a lot... Our country is small, we have suffered a lot from time to time. Education is one of the prioraties here actually. P.S for those too lazy to check my profile - Latvia.

I know the basics. But my roots don't go all the way back to the beginning of this country. Most of my ancestors came here in the late 1800's and early 1900's.

George Santayana said that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." I love history and I always try to remember this adage. Historical knowlegde is very important in making decisions. Life keeps repeating itself, and so the more you know, the more you can avoid committing the same mistake. Lately I have taken to walking around my town to re-discover it, and loving every minute of it.

hi icesmile! I know the history of my country pretty well, because I live this place and I am proud to be a Bulgarian, because a century ago, my country was really one great country, and not that what it is today. there are may great men and women too who have lived on these places and they have done many glorious things! I really like to read history books and to learn many new facts about my country's history

i really agree on what you said that we should know our history, our roots for us to know our identity. we dont have a sense of identity if we dont know it. for me, im so fond of reading history books and it's actually one of my best grades in school. we're always taught in school that we should know our past, to understand the present and of course to predict the future.

Well i love to know the history of my country. History was my favorite subject at school. I like the kings, their empire, their life style and culture. I also admire the temples they built with such a creative artitecture thats amazing!! Yes its very important one to know the history as there are lots to learn good and understand the mistakes the history has.. And i believe we will also make ourself in thehistory of future!

Hai there. i'm new here and i from malaysia. To me History is very interesting.A lot we can learn from it. my ancestor is all from malay roots.It very interesting how our custom is. From the simple costume how eat,respect the oldest and many more we have we have to follow it properly.