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
Filipino who were all educated during spanish reign
THE ILUSTRADOS
the enlightened class of filipinos
-Graciano Lopez Jaina
-Marcelo H. Del Pilar
-Mariano Ponce
-Antonio Luna
-Jose P. Rizal
spanish curriculum consists of 3R’s
-reading
-writing
-religion
main reading materials in the basic education of spanish colonial
-Cartilla (beginner reader)
-Caton (book with simple text used to learn how to read)
-Catecismo (religious book in the form of question and answer)
The basic education of spanish colonial consists of 3 grade levels:
-Entrada
-Acenso
-Termino