14/05/2026
Conflicting interests among the early tribes and polities in the archipelago made quite easy for European colonizers to establish control over key polities in Luzon and Visayas.
Frankly, they slowly conquered the archipelago by sowing division. Lured with the promise of power and gold, certain warring tribes from Visayas were too eager to help the conquistadors, de Goiti and Salcedo, conquer Manila—not knowing that they too, the Visayans, would also end up enslaved by the very foreign kingdom they assisted.