Pick a developing country and discuss some of the ways in which colonialism has had a lasting impact on its geography, economy, culture, and/or political system.

Pick a developing country and discuss some of the ways in which colonialism has had a lasting impact on its geography , economy , culture and /or political system

The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country composed of more than seven thousand and one hundred islands . Its capital is Manila and it 's a developing country with a population of about 90 million people Filipinos , the people of the country , speak Filipino , the national language , and English . The country has a long history of colonialism having been subject to the rule of three foreign

nations : Spain , the United States , and Japan . These three colonial periods in the history of the country produced lasting effects on its culture , political system economy , and geography

Although the Philippines has a long history of being a colony , its people had resisted colonizers when the interests of the country were endangered . The first colonizers of the country were the Spanish . It 's believed that nearby territories in Southeast Asia traded with the Philippine islands long before the Spanish came . The first recorded resistance against Spanish colonization occurred in 1521 when Spanish explorers , led by Ferdinand Magellan landed in Mindanao , the southernmost region of the country (Schirmer Shalom , 1987 ,

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According to historians , the Spaniards claimed the islands as Spanish territory and violated the women of the natives . They also attempted to baptize the natives as Christians , resulting in the resistance of some of the natives . Native leaders then decided to make war with the Spaniards and...