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Capitulo I

On 1590, the population of Pangasinan and started to settle Nueva Ecija and increase as well, the flood that continued to happen in Pangasinan would cause a part of the population of Pangasinan to go to Nueva Ecija, Ituy and Bulacan, the population of the settlers would increase and they would help the Spanish against the hostile natives of the places.


The population of Pangasinan would become loyal to the Spanish in the same way as the people of Pampanga are.


The parts of the area of the Kumintang Province would be fiercely Moro and the Spanish would have difficulties conquering parts of it, which would later.


After the Gaddang revolt in the early 17th century, the areas decimated by the Spanish were settled by immigrants from Pangasinan, the same thing happened in the Ladia revolt where in the people from Pangasinan would migrate to the areas devastated by the revolt, the Pangaisinenses would also work in the haciendas of the friars in the Upstream of the Pampanga and Cagayan river valley.


The Almazan and Maniago revolts started in 1650, however the Pangasinense would not join the revolt because the Spanish changed their own stance to the Pangasinenses and that the Spanish would favor them in the foreseeable future, the Ilocanos, Tagalos and Kapampangans would revolt under Almazan, Maniago and the son of Pedro Ladia named Manuel.



The revolt although was strong would be defeated because the Spanish withdrawn from the from their focus on the Spice Islands and Mindanao retainng only Zamboanga and also because of their allies and collaborators and the Spanish are expelled from the Spice Islands and the Spanish were also defeated by the Mindanaoans they blamed their defeat on Koxinga.

The remaining Moros in the Balayan province would be destroyed by the Spanish and replaced by the Visayans from Cebu.


The area of the Balayan province would be tightly integrated in the Visayas area and for that reason the island of Luzon would be divided into two, the Culturally Independent North and the Visayan influenced south.


On this time the Spanish administrators in the Spanish east indies would collaborate with the colonizers of Portuguese East Indies and some of Criolos of the Philippines would start to go to the Portuguese East Indies and vice versa for that reason the Islands of East Timor, Solor and Flores would remain under Spanish influence and the Spanish would cultivate cloves and Spices in Flores and Visayas while the Spanish would start a tabacco monopoly in the Northern half of of Luzon, particularly in the middle part of the Cagayan River Valley and the Upper portion of the Pampanga river valley.
 
Capitulo II

The Spanish Criollos would populate the Manila area starting from the south of the Meycauyan after the Maniago area to Cavite, the natives of Metro Manila would be either pushed north or south and for that reason.


The Merdicas (also spelled Mardicas or Mardikas) were Catholic natives of the islands of Ternate and Tidore of the Moluccas, converted during the Portuguese occupation of the islands by Jesuit missionaries. The islands were later captured by the Spanish who vied for their control with the Dutch. In 1663, the Spanish garrison in Ternate were forced to pull out to defend Manila against the rebellion of Maniago(Rumored to be that they are afraid of Koxinga) (sacrificing the Moluccas to the Dutch in doing so). A number of Merdicas volunteered to help, eventually being resettled in a sandbar near the mouth of the Maragondon river (known as the Bahra de Maragondon) and Tanza, Cavite.


The Merdicas community eventually integrated into the local population. Today, the place is called Ternate after the island of Ternate in the Moluccas, and the descendants of the Merdicas continue to use their Spanish creole (with Portuguese influence) which came to be known as Ternateño Chabacano.


The Manila area and parts of Cavite would start speaking Spanish due to criolos, and aside from that Pangasinan becomes dominant in the parts of Luzon and becomes the linguafranca of Northern Luzon(OTL regions 1-3 and parts of OTL 4) while Balayan and Bikol would have relations with Visayans.
 
Capitulo III

The Spanish would continue their war against Portugal and would sieze control the Portuguese east indies on 1670, because the Portuguese East Indies now prefer the Spanish because the Spanish Criolos would also dominate the former Portuguese East Indies also known as Nusa Tengarra.


The Portuguese won’t accept this, however the Portuguese would war with the Spanish in 1675 resulting in the loss of the Portuguese India to the Spanish.


The Balayan/Kumintang region becomes unstable and experiences famine and pestilence in the 1670’s decreasing the population of the Balayan province and the Visayan immigrants come in from Iloilo and Cebu.


The Spanish would reestablish their garrisons in Zamboanga and Butuan.
 
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