Historian Dalton Woods argues that using the name of these ships to describe one region’s pre-colonial polities is a result of long-running mistranslations. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these ships, which have come to name pre-colonial polities governed by leaders called rajahs or lakans in regions like the Visayas.
ANSWER: balangay [or barangay; accept “Barangic Phase,” which is a historiographic term sometimes used for the relevant historical/sociopolitical period]
[10m] The title datu was one of several used by leaders of barangays and held by this leader. This leader’s forces killed Ferdinand Magellan at the Battle of Mactan.
ANSWER: Lapu-Lapu [or Lapulapu or Si Lapulapu]
[10e] One of the more prominent barangays names this city on the Pasig River. Miguel López de Legazpi founded the modern incarnation of this city in 1571, which replaced Cebu as the capital of the Spanish East Indies.
ANSWER: Manila [or Maynila]
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