DiscoverThe Colonial Dept.Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s
Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s

Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s

Update: 2025-08-09
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“Peste general.” “Pestilencial epidemia.” “Epidemia maligna.” In the Philippine archipelago, Spanish chroniclers wrote of deadly epidemics that struck their new possession. (Listen to S7E4 before this one.)


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Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s

Extra Credit: “Epidemia maligna”—the devastating outbreaks that hit Luzon and Visayas in the late 1500s

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