A Country's History

To a large extend, the location climate, and physical features of a country determine the course of its history and politics.Such a relation is termed as geopolitics and geohistory.

It was said that the earliest in the Philippines found the, conditions in the islands conducive to living. The climate was good and the soil was rich and fertile. Hence, farming was easy. The rains were plentiful, and the sea abounded in marine life. Thus, the promise of a peaceful and a productive life drew migrants to the archipelago.

In the three-hundred and thirty-three years of Spanish domination, environment played a major role's in the country's history and politics. The Philippine islands were separated from each other by wide expanses of rough seas, thus rendering communication between islands difficult. Furthermore, its rugged terrain of mountains and forests prevented regions from joining other regions, and islands to other islands. This geographical condition kept the people divided by physical barriers and, later, made Spanish conquest and subjugation easy.

During the revolutionary era, this physical environment worked both ways. Some factors favored the Spaniards. The Spaniards colonizers had control of the seas and a transport system, using the roads and seas. However, the distance of the Philippine's from Spain made the sending of reinforcements difficult, thus favoring the revolutionary cause.