Lesson 4 - Pre-Colonial Philippines

Question 1

Names of the islands of the Philippines that traded with China as early as the 10th century

Answer 1

1. Ma-i
2. P’utuan
3. Sanmalan
4. Baipuer
5. Jamayan
6. Bulaoyou
7. Pulihuan

Question 2

Ma-i

Answer 2

Mindoro

Question 3

P’utuan

Answer 3

Butuan

Question 4

Sanmalan

Answer 4

Zamboanga

Question 5

Baipuer

Answer 5

Babuyan Islands

Question 6

Jamayan

Answer 6

Calamian

Question 7

Balaoyou

Answer 7

Palawan

Question 8

Pulihuan

Answer 8

Manila

Question 9

Chinese texts highlighted the rise of ___ as an important entrepot within the network

Answer 9

Champa

Question 10

Champa

Answer 10

Vietnam

Question 11

When did Chinese texts highlighted the rise of Champa

Answer 11

Around 9th to 12th century

Question 12

From Champa, routes were going to __ and __ __

Answer 12

Mindoro and Nothern Mindoro

Question 13

Where do the routes to Mindoro and Northern Mindoro converge?

Answer 13

Sulu Zone

Question 14

Trade route that prospered in 13th to 14th century

Answer 14

Eastern Trade Route

Question 15

Eastern trade route is composed of what?

Answer 15

• Quanzhou
• Sulu Zone
• Northern Borneo
• Celebes
• Moluccas

Question 16

What happened in the 14th century?

Answer 16

• Butuan paid regular tributes to China
• Trade links between continental Southeast Asia, northern Borneo, and the Philippines
• China and Southeast Asia received Indonesian produce

Question 17

What sources indicated trade links between continental Southeast Asia, northern Borneo, and the Philippines

Answer 17

Yuan and Song dynasty sources

Question 18

In 15th century, Portuguese sources chronicled a trade route connecting what?

Answer 18

• Malacca,
• Borneo, and the
• Philippines

Question 19

Spread to the northern Philippines in the late 15th to the early and mid-16th centuries

Answer 19

Brunei network

Question 20

In the late 15th century, second network was observed to be in __

Answer 20

• Sulu
• southern Mindanao
• Moluccas

Question 21

What happened in the beginning of the 16th century?

Answer 21

Southeast Asia participating in a new pattern of world trade

Question 22

What was involved in the new pattern of world trade in the 16th century

Answer 22

Asia and Europe

Question 23

What did the Philippines participate in the beginning of the 16th century?

Answer 23

Participated in three of the seven major trade routes

Question 24

Provides present-day Filipinos a detailed description of the way of life of the Philippines’ inhabitants during the 16th century when the Spaniards colonized the Philippines

Answer 24

Boxer Codex (1590)

Question 25

Among the __ illustrations in the Boxer Codex, there are at least __ pictures of the types of inhabitants in the Philippines

Answer 25

75 illustrations, 15 pictures

Question 26

The Visayans were called __ because of their tattooed bodies

Answer 26

pintados

Question 27

Even the __ __ practiced by the ethnic groups were portrayed in the Codex.

Answer 27

class system

Question 28

The __ __ was distinct from one place to another

Answer 28

social ranking

Question 29

What discretely distinguished the class system of Filipinos?

Answer 29

clothing

Question 30

Name of their temple or a place of adoration

Answer 30

Simbahan

Question 31

Means worship

Answer 31

Pandot

Question 32

Pandot (worship) is being celebrated in the __

Answer 32

large house of the Dato

Question 33

During this celebration, the whole barangay, or family, was united and joined in the worship, which they called __

Answer 33

nag-aanitos

Question 34

Among the many idols they believe, there was one called ___

Answer 34

Bathala

Question 35

Where do they believe the spirits they worship dwell in?

Answer 35

Objects like trees, mountains, rivers, etc.

Question 36

What did they worship?

Answer 36

nature, the sun, the moon (baby baby) and the stars

Question 37

The stars are also called __

Answer 37

Tala (na nakikita sa iyong mga mata.. chariz)

Question 38

Seven little goats

Answer 38

The Pleiades

Question 39

Greater Bear

Answer 39

Balatic

Question 40

images with different shapes

Answer 40

Lic-ha

Question 41

patron of lovers and generation

Answer 41

Dian Masalanta

Question 42

patrons of the cultivated lands and husbandry

Answer 42

Lacapati and Idianale

Question 43

a bird when singing in the tree, may bring either good or bad omen

Answer 43

Tigmamanuguin

Question 44

The manner of offering sacrifice is done by an officiating priest, male or female, called __

Answer 44

Catalonan

Question 45

What did they practice to see whether the weapons were useful and lucky for their possessor whenever occasion should offer?

Answer 45

divination

Question 46

Native syllabary

Answer 46

Baybayin

Question 47

Baybayin is composed of __ and __

Answer 47

Three (3) vowels and 14 consonants

Question 48

There were no kings or rulers worthy of mention throughout his archipelago. However, many __ dominated others with less power

Answer 48

chiefs

Question 49

Used to be their form of government

Answer 49

Barangay

Question 50

Barangay may be composed of about ___ families

Answer 50

30-100 families

Question 51

Who rules the barangay?

Answer 51

Datu or Maginoo

Question 52

What do their laws and policy consist?

Answer 52

traditions and customs

Question 53

Written laws are made by the __ together with the _____ as his advisers.

Answer 53

- Datu - Council of Elders (advisers)

Question 54

A dispute between datus or between residents of different barangay was sometimes settled by ___

Answer 54

arbitration

Question 55

Resorted to when the barangay court did not readily decide the case

Answer 55

Trial by ordeal

Question 56

Three (3) kinds of trial by ordeal

Answer 56

1. River ordeal 2. Boiling Water Ordeal 3. Candle Ordeal

Question 57

chieftain of the whole barangay and is the wealthiest person in the community

Answer 57

Nobles/Maginoo

Question 58

intermediate class of men who had enough land, those who rendered services to the rulers and do not work on fields

Answer 58

Freeman/Timawa

Question 59

humans treated as property and forcing them to do their work for their masters

Answer 59

Dependents/Alipin

Question 60

suspects plunge into the river with spears and who rises first, is guilty

Answer 60

River Ordeal

Question 61

suspects pick a stone in a pot of boiling water and he whose arm or hand is burned the most is guilty (agk sakita)

Answer 61

Boiling Water Ordeal

Question 62

suspects are given lighted candles of the same sizes and the owner of the candle that died out first is guilty

Answer 62

Candle Ordeal