Sultanate System

Question 1

It is composed of groups of villages under the realm of a sultan and his retinue.

Answer 1

Sultanate

Question 2

It performed functions of a legislative body.

Answer 2

Ruma Bichara

Question 3

It is locally known as datu kali that headed the justice department.

Answer 3

Qadi

Question 4

It means that it disperses political power away from the center.

Answer 4

Centrifugal Nature

Question 5

Who led an army of firearm-equipped Muslims from Sumatra to Sulu in 1390.

Answer 5

Rajah baginda

Question 6

What empire did the Muslim Malays overthrew in 1478 and established the Islamic government of Malacca?

Answer 6

Madjahapit Empire

Question 7

Its process started first in Sulu Archipelago towards the end of 13th century.

Answer 7

Islamization of Moroland

Question 8

Who introduced the Islam in Maguindanao areas in around 1450?

Answer 8

Sharif Awliya

Question 9

A Johor and Arab descent that founded the Maguindanao Sultanate after marrying the daughter of royal family in the area.

Answer 9

Sharif Kabungsuwan

Question 10

3 active traders

Answer 10

1. Chinese
2. Arabs
3. Indians

Question 11

6 Tribal Subjects of Sulu Sultanate

Answer 11

1. Tausug
2. Sama and Badjao
3. Jama Mapun
4. Yakan
5. Molbog and Palawani
6. Non-Moro tribes

Question 12

It was established around the 2nd decade of 16th century and spanned from Zamboanga to Davao that influence extends to the Iranun and the Maranao territories.

Answer 12

Maguindanao Sultanate

Question 13

13 tribal subjects of Maguindanao Sultanate

Answer 13

1. Maguindanao
2. Maranao
3. Iranun
4. Sangil
5. Kalagan
6. Subanen
7. Teduray
8. Ubo
9. T’boli
10. B’laan
11. Mansaka
12. Manobo
13. Higaunon

Question 14

It bridged two worlds and lay at a most strategic point for the maritime trade of the 19th century.

Answer 14

Sulu Archipelago

Question 15

The capital of the Sulu Sultanate, the focal point of a broad system of trade, and center for the marketing of slaves.

Answer 15

Jolo

Question 16

The dominant ethnic group in the Sulu archipelago and are the sole residents of Jolo islands.

Answer 16

Taosug

Question 17

The people of the interior that lived in small dispersed settlements and cultivated cassava, maize, and a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables.

Answer 17

Tau Gimba

Question 18

The people of the coast who were far more dependent on the sea for livelihood, took direct interest in the pearl and shell fisheries, inter-insular trade, and slave raiding.

Answer 18

Tau Higad

Question 19

They are strand dwellers with close ties to the sea, possessed of highly developed boat-building techniques, sometimes practicing simple garden agriculture and are the most widely dispersed of all ethnolinguistic groups in the Sulu chain.

Answer 19

Samal

Question 20

A group of islands named by the Spanish that was a springboard for launching seasonal raids against coastal villages from Luzon to Celebes.

Answer 20

Los Samales

Question 21

The most important island in Los Samales, dwelling places and organizational center of the major slave-retailing group for the Sulu Sultanate in the first half of the 19th century.

Answer 21

Balangingi

Question 22

It is the traditional home of the Maguindanao that is an inland dwelling agricultural people.

Answer 22

Cotabato

Question 23

2 divisions of Cotabato

Answer 23

1. Sa-ilud
2. Sa-raya

Question 24

The lower valley or flood plain and the seat of the Sultanate of Cotabato.

Answer 24

Sa-ilud

Question 25

The upper valley or highland area and the residence of the Sultanate of Buayan.

Answer 25

Sa-raya

Question 26

It refers not only to the interior of a large land mass such as Mindanao or Borneo but also includes island clusters within the Sulu archipelago that depended on the port Sultanate at Jolo.

Answer 26

Hinterland

Question 27

It can be viewed in terms of a single “cultural ecosystem” in which the parts are bound together by alternating bonds of antipathy and symbiotic relations.

Answer 27

Ethnic Interrelations

Question 28

It is defined as the entire social system, rather than a particular aspect of the social structure.

Answer 28

State

Question 29

A pyramidal form that is composed of sub-units which are structurally and functionally equivalent at every level of the political system.

Answer 29

Segmentary State

Question 30

It was a centralized political system whose territorial sovereignty was recognized most strongly at the center.

Answer 30

Sulu Sultanate

Question 31

They formed the most significant group at the top of the estate system.

Answer 31

Aristocratic Datus

Question 32

They are the Sultan’s kindred and those who claimed descent from the first Sultan, and others were recruited through appointments by the Sultan.

Answer 32

Royal Datus

Question 33

They were simply people without ascribed status.

Answer 33

Commoners

Question 34

The bottom of the Sulu hierarchy.

Answer 34

Banyaga

Question 35

They are invested with an aura of sanctity and charisma, symbolically legitimized the social system.

Answer 35

Sultan

Question 36

It was situated on the eastern periphery of the Islamic world.

Answer 36

Taosug Sultanate

Question 37

The prime legitimizer of the Sultan’s authority.

Answer 37

Islam

Question 38

They conducted the Sultanate’s religious administration and established the Sultan’s presence and the strength of Islam even in culturally distant rural communities on Jolo and neighboring islands.

Answer 38

Adat/Catechists