Kasaysayan

Question 1

Definition of History

Answer 1

Search for meaning and value

story, past, study, recorded, value

Question 2

3 types of history records

Answer 2

1. Documents
2. Oral sources
3. Artifacts

Question 3

What type of record is more popular in the Philippines

Answer 3

Oral tradition

Question 4

What is the key to understanding history?

Answer 4

Documents

Question 5

What was the basis of time in precolonial time?

Answer 5

Cycles found in nature

Question 6

What was the basis of time that the Spanish introduced?

Answer 6

Linear

Question 7

How did the Spanish divide history?

Answer 7

1. Good/Colonial civilisation

2. Evil/Precolonial Barbarian

Question 8

What was Rizal’s conception of the division of history?

Answer 8

1. PH before the Spanish (Precolonial)
2. PH during the Spanish (Colonial)
3. PH after the Spanish (Postcolonial)

Question 9

What is the highest point in the PH?

Answer 9

Mt. Apo

Question 10

What is the lowest point in the PH?

Answer 10

Galathea Depth

Question 11

Temperature range

Answer 11

6 - 42 degrees

Question 12

Number of islands

Answer 12

7,100 to 7, 107 islands

Question 13

Philippines’ origin story

Answer 13

Sky vs. sea

Question 14

Creation story

Answer 14

Malakas at Maganda

Question 15

Northern most tip of the PH

Answer 15

Batanes group of islands

Question 16

3 theories of PH origin

Answer 16

1. Volcanic eruption
2. Land bridges theory (submerged)
3. Used to be past of mainland Asia (Vietnam)