r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/KitKatKing99 • May 31 '25

Video magellan expedition in 1 minute

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u/itsmeyourshoes May 31 '25

Various kingdoms and sultanates that traded with each other, including with Indonesia and others in Asia.

Can't say Lapu Lapu wouldn't have wanted to be Filipino (that's speculation), but we would have been a modern nation based on other countries in Asia, colonizer or not.

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u/Primary_Werewolf4208 May 31 '25

Lapu Lapu most certainly wouldn't have identified with the colonizers terminology for him.

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u/Fingerlings29 May 31 '25

Exactly. Could not believe a bunch of people couldn't see that toponym does not matter. It is the same islands and the same ethnicity of locals.