Alternative history: What if the Spanish never colonised the Philippines?

Alternative history: What if the Spanish never colonised the Philippines? 

Context

During the 16th century, the Spanish and the Portuguese were competing to seek for colonies in the 'New World's, as part of their mission of Gold, Gospel and Glory. At that time, the Spanish and the Portuguese signed a treaty that Spain would have their colonies to the west and Portugal to the East. In 1521, Magellan arrived on the island of Limasawa in the Philippines and he began to spread Christianity in the Philippines, then he continued his voyage to Cebu until his death during the Battle of Mactan. But what if in this alternative timeline the Spanish failed to colonise the Philippines? 

Scenario

In the real timeline, the Spanish and the Portuguese are competing each other to look for colonies in the 'New World's, as part of their mission to seek for natural resources, spread Christianity and achieve victory (gold, gospel, glory). The same thing would also happen in this alternative timeline. But there would be some differences between the real timeline and this alternative timeline, although there would be similarities, such as the spread of Christianity on the island of Limasawa, Magellan being killed during the Battle of Mactan in Cebu. In this alternative timeline, the Spanish colonists would have been wary of colonising other parts of the Philippine Islands after hearing the news of Magellan being killed, because they fear that they would be killed by the one of the tribal chiefs in the Philippine Islands. Not only that, the Spaniards who had settled on the island of Limasawa would intermarry with the local population. If the Spanish had failed to colonise the Philippines, there would be five major influential kingdoms in the Philippine Islands, namely Maynila, Cebu, Maguindanao, Lanao and Sulu. Four of these kingdoms are Islamic kingdoms. If the Spanish failed to colonise the Philippines, the massacre of Muslims in Manila would not have happened.

In this alternative timeline, the major kingdoms in the Philippine Islands would have been competing to control territory throughout the Philipine Islands and conquer minor kingdoms, even they would expand towards Borneo and Sulawesi. The kingdom of Cebu would control the entire Visayan Islands, the kingdom of Maynila would control the entire island of Luzon, whereas the kingdoms of Mindanao would control parts of Borneo and Sulawesi.

This alternative timeline would also affect language in the Philippine Islands, if in the real timeline the languages of the Philippines is written in Latin script, in this alternative timeline, the language of the Philippines would be written in the Babayin script, with the exception of some languages of Mindanao. 

In this alternative timeline, the Philippine Islands would not be called the Philippine Islands and would be considered as part of the Indonesian archipelago. Not only that, terms for some of the indigenous tribes of the Philippines, such as the Igorot, Negrito, Lumad, Bangsamoro would not exist if the Spanish had failed to colonise the Philippines.

Although the major kingdoms of the Philippine Islands would control a large area in this alternate timeline and the kingdoms such as the Sambas, Pontianak, Brunei, Banjar would be comquered by the other kingdoms, the people from the ethnic groups who are not the ruling ones would never want to be part of the major kingdoms because they consider these kingdoms as colonists. In this alternative timeline, petty kingdoms would emerge in the Philippine Islands, and on two other islands of the Indonesian archipelago (Borneo and Sulawesi).

In this alternative history, the Dutch would have colonised Mindanao, whereas the British would have colonised Luzon and the Visayan Islands.

In the real timeline, the European colonists had christianised the Dayak, Kadazan-Dusun, Minahasa, Sanguihe and the tribes of Central Sulawesi. Whereas in this alternative timeline, they would have only christianised the Dayak Orang Ulu and the Minahasa, because most of the other Dayak tribes, the Sangihe and the other tribes of Central Sulawesi had been converted to Islam beforehand. Not only that, the difference between the real timeline and this alternative timeline revolves around the era when the process of Christianisation began. In the real timeline, the Spanish colonists began to christianise the Filipinos on the Visayan Islands and Luzon. Whereas in this alternative timeline, the British would start to christianise the people of the Visayas and parts of Luzon in the 19th century. The Dutch would have followed suit and start to christianise the people of some parts of Mindanao.

Although there would be petty kingdoms throughout the Philippine Islands in this alternative timeline, that does not mean that the Philippine islands would never be under European control. In the 19th century, the Europeans had been competing to seek for colonies in search for natural resources for industry. 

In the real timeline, the British and the Dutch divided the island of Borneo into two, whereas in this alternative timeline, the Dutch would have took control of the entire island of Borneo because the sultanates of Sarawak and Brunei would have been conquered by the Sulu sultanate beforehand.

The fail of the Spanish colonisation of the Philippine Islands would not only affect the Philippine Islands, Borneo and Sulawesi. In the world without the Spanish colonisation of the Philippine Islands, the Dutch would had colonised Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

There are differences between the real timeline and this alternative timeline which revolves around religious demographics. In the real timeline, Islam in the Philippine Islands is only concentrated on the southern part of Mindanao, whereas in this alternative timeline, Muslims would be concentrated throughout the Philippines except for the Visayas and some parts of Luzon and Mindanao.

There are also differences between the real timeline and this alternative timeline which revolves around cultural influences. Because in the real timeline, Filipino culture (except for some tribes of the interior), and also the culture of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands is influenced by the Spanish, whereas in this alternative timeline, only the culture on the island of Limasawa would be influenced by the Spanish, because of the Spanish colonists who failed to colonise intermarrying with locals. 

In terms of post-colonial history, the Philippine Islands would be divided into three countries in this alternative timeline and would never be controlled by the USA.

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