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Although early chronicles allude to slavery, early servitude was more in the nature of service in exchange for gratitude and protection than indentured slavery." Pre-Hispanic Philippine religion was animistic, but by the fifteenth century, Filipinos in the south were already being converted to Islam.About a century later, with the sanction of the papacy, the most powerful monarch of Europe engaged in voyages of discovery and colonization. The papal bull of Pope Alexander VI divided the world into halves, one each for the Iberian Catholic monarchies: Spain and Portugal." The Philippine Islands fell in the Portuguese half, but because of inexact geographical knowledge, Spain laid claim to the Philippines when Fernao Magalhaes, more popularly known as Ferdinand Magellan, the first European to achieve the circumnavigation of the world, landed there on March 17, 1521. Ironically, Fernao Magalhaes was a Portuguese in the service of the Spanish king. Magalhaes was welcomed by the leader of th