The 19th Century Philippines: Social Structure and Political System Flashcards
Dominion toward the land owned was practiced wherein the authority & power resided in the hands of the wealthy few
FEUDALISM
HIGH CLASS
-Spanish Officials
-Peninsulares
-Insulares
-Friars
pure blooded spaniard born in the iberian peninsula
PENINSULARES
pure blooded spaniard born in the philippines
INSULARES
parish priests, members of any of certain religious orders of men, especially the four mendicant orders
FRIARS
4 mendicant orders
(Augustinians, Carmelites, Dominicians, & Franciscans
MIDDLE CLASS
-spanish mestizos/ mestizo de espanol
-chinese mestizo
-criollos
-principales
mixed european
CRIOLLOS
wealthy pure blooded native supposedly descended from the kadatoan class
PRINCIPALES
ruling class of native elites
gobernadorcillo
• cabeza de barangay
• landowners
• merchants
•wealthy native families
PRINICIPALIA
pure poor blooded chinese
SANG LEY’S
LOWEST CLASS
INDIOS
pure blooded native of the philippines
INDIOS
the power of the king of spain to unify the state & the church
PATRONATO REAL
- parish priest
- most powerful figure in a town of pueblo
CURA PARROCO