Re: Terraces and Pagodas

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Re: Terraces and Pagodas

Verse 1

On the near of the end of the 15th century the Sultanate of Sulu would defeat the Sultanate of Borneo and stop it from making a puppet of the sultanate ending the dominance of Brunei in the archipelago.

The Town of Tondo in Saludong important in the trade to china and japan from the malay world, however since Brunei is now gone, none would be a threat to Tondo in Saludong, however, Saludong would need to fend off due to the Majapahit Empire actually declining this is the end for the empire and the empire itself would fall completely due to the war between the muslims and the hindus and the towns of Faru, Bigan, Makabebe and Tondo would need recognize one of the factions later on, however the loss of Brunei would mean they would be at peace for a long time until the recognition of the towns of one of the factions in Majapahit.

On this time, the Sulu Sultanate would start in their prosetylization of the Visayas which is unsuccessful since their start

On this time, the Spanish would have discovered the new world and a fall of an empire that would almost completely disappear from history which would not be remembered by most and only a few but it would make the colonization of the east so different.


Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 27 April 1521) was a Portuguese explorer. He became the first European to sail the Pacific Ocean, and the first to sail around the world. Magellan's voyage proved that the Earth was round.

Born in 1480, his birthplace is recorded as either Sabrosa or Porto in Portugal. He worked in the royal court. Since his parents were members of the Portuguese nobility and after their deaths, Magellan became a page for the queen at the age of 10. In the royal court where he learned many important skills, including map making, navigation and astronomy. In 1505 he joined the navy. When he worked for Portugal, he went to many parts of the world, such as India, the Spice Islands, East Africa, and Morocco. When in Morocco in 1513 Magellan was wounded, and walked the remainder of his life with a limp. After he lost his job for the King of Portugal, he went to work for the King of Spain.

He was also the first to sail through the Strait of Magellan, so it was named after him. Magellan himself was killed in the Philippines, on 27 April 1521 in Mactan during a battle with the natives after he was accused of stealing.


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We have no Rajah Matanda who is captured on the course of the return of Magellan’s fleet due to Tondo being sacked (although Southern Luzon would still have ties with Borneo), which would make the later fleets like Legaspi ignorant, but they will conquer parts of the island of Saludong or what they call as Luzon nonetheless when Legaspi arrives.
 
Verse 2
Verse 2
The towns in the coast of Saludong under Majapahit suzerainty namely Faru, Bigan, Makabebe and Tondo would recognize Demak as the successor of Majapahit which would result in their regions being turned to muslim by the mid 16th century which would form the Sultanate of Saludong in the north and the hindus the Kingdom of Sambali which is pagan in the interior as its pagan equivalent which would be the two governments of the Northern half of the Island and the south would be a collection of statelets or cities which is unconquerable, the Sultanate of Saludong under a scion of the Demak faction of Majapahit while the Kingdom of Sambali under a distant and almost native branch.

On this time the Spanish would be able to gain the loyalty of the Kingdoms of Butuan and Cebu at least for Cebu quite temporarily but Butuan would be loyal to the Spanish.

In 1564, López de Legazpi was commissioned by the viceroy, Luis de Velasco, to lead an expedition in the Pacific Ocean, to find the Spice Islands where the earlier explorers Ferdinand Magellan and Ruy López de Villalobos had landed in 1521 and 1543, respectively. The expedition was ordered by King Philip II of Spain, after whom the Philippines had earlier been named by Ruy López de Villalobos. The viceroy died in July 1564, but the Audiencia and López de Legazpi completed the preparations for the expedition.

On November 19 or 20, 1564, five ships and 500 soldiers, sailed from the port of Barra de Navidad, New Spain, in what is now Jalisco state, Mexico (other sources give the date as November 1, 1564, and mention 'four ships and 380 men'). Members of the expedition included six Augustinian missionaries, in addition to Fr. Andrés de Urdaneta, who served as navigator and spiritual adviser, Melchor de Legazpi (son of Adelanto de Legazpi), Felipe de Salcedo (grandson of Miguel Lopez de Legazpi), and Guido de Lavezarez (a survivor of the expedition of Ferdinand Magellan).

López de Legazpi and his men sailed the Pacific Ocean for 93 days. In 1565, they landed in the Mariana Islands, where they briefly anchored and replenished their supplies. There they fought with Chamorro tribes and burned several huts.

In 1569, due to scarcity of food provisions in Cebu, Legazpi transferred to Panay where they were peacefully welcomed by the people in the Kedatuan of Madja-as and they founded a second settlement on the bank of the Panay River. In 1570, Legazpi sent his grandson, Juan de Salcedo, who had arrived from Mexico in 1567, to Minolo (Former location of the Huangdom of Ma-i) to punish the Muslim Moro pirates who had been plundering Panay villages. Salcedo also destroyed forts on the islands of Ilin and Lubang, respectively South and Northwest of Mindoro.

In 1570, having heard of the rich resources in Luzon, Legazpi dispatched Martín de Goiti to explore the northern region. Landing in Batangas with a force of 120 Spaniards, de Goiti explored the Pansipit River, which drains Taal Lake. On May 8, they arrived in Manila Bay which they would find sparsely populated.

The Spanish under Legaspi would negotiate with the Town of Tondo in Saludong for a trading outpost which would fail and the Spanish would instead sieze the settlement south of Tondo named Manila, this would mean that the Spanish rule in the North would initially remain only in Manila, however, Legaspi would be able to secure the area of Ibalon as well, however in the death of Legaspi the areas of Saludong, the Saludong Proper and Kumintang would remain out of reach and unconquered.
 
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