Pre Sanish Period

Question 1

early Filipinos lived in settlement called

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Balangay or barangay

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barangay headed by chieftain known as a

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Datu

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Alliances among barangays were common and these were formalized in a ritual called

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Sangduguan

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The subjects served their chieftain during wars, voyages, and paid tributes called

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Buwis

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Whenever a case cannot be readily decided upon the barangay court, they resorted to

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trial by ordeal

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a primitive method of determining a person’s guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control

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trial by ordeal

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was based on the belief that the Gods protected the innocent and punished the guilty.

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trial by ordeal

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Suspects plunge into the river or lake with lances. He who come to the surface first was considered guilty

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River ordeal

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Suspects pick a stone in boiling water and he whose arm or hand is burned the most is guilty

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Boiling water ordeal

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

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Candle ordeal

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was resorted to in case of marital troubles.

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Divorce

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occupied a high position in early Philippine society.

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Women

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Women often occupied prestigious position of the

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Babaylan

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Signs of valor and many attributes

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Tattoos

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Most tattooed ere the ancient Bisayans

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Pintados

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Visayas was called

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Islas de los Pintados (Islands of the Painted People)

Question 17

In 1989 an inscription was found in Luzon known as _________ dated 900 AD.

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“Laguna copperplate inscription”

Question 18

A number of words in Tagalog language are drawn from Sanskrit

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Budhî (conscience)
Bathalà (bhattara).
Dalità (one who suffers).
Dukhâ (poverty)
Guró (teacher)
Sampalatayà (faith).
Mukhâ (face)
Lahò (eclipse, disappear)
Maharlika “noble” from Sanskrit mahardikka.
Saranggola (kite)
Asawa (spouse)

Question 19

These beliefs were carried on up to the present generation of Filipinos, which has led some foreign authors to describe them a

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‘Pagano-Christians.’

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was responsible for the spread of Islam in Mindanao.

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Serif Kabungsuan

Question 21

the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines during the

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first half of the 16th century

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Usually, it was the Datu and the village elders who promulgated such laws, which were then announced and explained to the people by a town crier called the

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umalohokan

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TheBabaylanswere reduced to a mere

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quack doctor

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It was also ingrained by the Spaniards into the minds of our ancestors that the epitome of being a woman was to act like

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Maria Clara

Question 25

Prior to the arrival of the Spaniards, the native inhabitants were literate and had their own system of writing called 

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Baybayin

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was the founder and the first sultan of the Sulu sultanate.

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Hashim Abubakar

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is a title of nobility in the Sulu sultanate.

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sharif

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became known in history as the center of Islamic learning in this country.

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Sulu

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The theory of ___ states that the language derived from Kavi or old Javanese

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David Diringer

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suggests that the writings might be influenced by an Indian priests who were knowledgeable about the Brahms scripts.

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Fletcher Gardner