Did you know Manila already had a kingdom before Spain arrived?
We’re taught that Philippine history began in 1521.
But long before colonization, Maynila and the Kingdom of Tondo were already powerful trading states—
connected to China, Brunei, and Southeast Asia, controlling the Pasig River, and ruled by kings.
This wasn’t a tribe.
This wasn’t a village.
This was a recognized pre-colonial kingdom—later erased from textbooks.
Colonization didn’t discover us.
It rewrote our history.
Watch until the end to see what they never taught you in school.
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