pre-colonial Flashcards
Believers of superstition →→ –
Animism
objects, places, and creatures possess distinctive spiritual qualities, earliest and the most primitive form of belief; spirits instead of deities.
Animism
Spirits =
DIWATA
Solely observe natural phenomena on the basis of these superstitious beliefs
and halted the early inhabitants of this archipelago to observe natural phenomena as they are.
DIWATA
-Knew how to read and write in their own system
-For messages and letters
Not developed a written literary tradition at that time
Would have led to a more systematic
accumulation and dissemination of knowledge
PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD
WRITING SYSTEM
early Filipino script that they used
BAYBAYIN
number of geographically scattered, self- sufficient, autonomous communities
Barangay
PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD
SOCIAL ORGANIZATION are Essentially – –
-producing mainly what they needed
-goods are produced for oneself or one’s family and not to sold to make a profit
-Except to those early Filipinos who are involved in trades
subsistence economies,
For about 40,000 years – or –
developed techniques for sawing, drilling and polishing hard stones
simple tools or weapons of stone flakes
Stone Age inhabitants
Sulu, Negros, Samar, and regions in Luzon
In –, ornaments of seashells and pottery
of various designs later on replaced by Chinese porcelain
3,000 B.C
Metal tools and implements
copper, gold, bronze and, later, iron
-Metal tools and implements are evidenced by –
-Stony waste matter separated from metals
during the smelting or refining of ore
-Engaged in the actual
extraction of iron from –,
smelting and refining
iron slags, ore
PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD
TRANSPORTATION
Boats for –
coastal trades
Spanish chroniclers referred to as refined
warship and well suited for inter-island trade raids
Caracoa
-Inhabitants of Butuan with Champa (Vietnam)
-Ma-i (Mindoro) with China
-Chinese records contain a lot of references to the Philippines
10th century A.D tradings
PRE-COLONIAL PERIOD
AGRICULTURE
-Domesticate swine, goats, and –
-Grow crops such as rice, cotton, and other
vegetables
-Lowland rice in –
-interior mountain region in terraced fields
fowls ,diked fields , terraced
– Settlement
-Exposed to foreign trade and cultural contacts
-Manila, Mindoro, Cebu, Southern Mindanao and Sulu
-More sophisticated technology
developed a system of writing, made their own gold jewelry
Coastal
— Settlement
-Still living as hunters
-Gathered forest products to trade with the lowland and coastal settlements
Mountain
The material the bees used to construct the
walls of their hives and historically used in creating statues, bronze preservation, and even treating burns and wounds.
Beeswax and Honey
Mine Gold:
Panay, Mindoro, and Bicol
copper for table display, porcelain jars, iron (used in warfare called Lantaka), and handwoven blankets.
Raja Soliman
