Mindanao is the second largest major island (based on surface area) in the Philippines. It is punctuated by five major peninsulas and five major mountian ranges. It has an abundance of mineral resources such as iron, nickle, cooper, silver, gold, coal and limestone.
Mindanao is the second largest major island (based on surface area) in the Philippines. It is punctuated by five major peninsulas and five major mountian ranges. It has an abundance of mineral resources such as iron, nickle, cooper, silver, gold, coal and limestone.
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Mindanao is the second largest major island (based on surface area) in the Philippines. It is punctuated by five major peninsulas and five major mountian ranges. It has an abundance of mineral resources such as iron, nickle, cooper, silver, gold, coal and limestone.
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major island (based on surface area) in the Philippines.It located in the southernmost end of the archipelago. Mindanao is punctuated by five major peninsulas and five major mountian ranges, some volcanic in origin. It has an abundance of mineral resources such as iron, nickle, cooper, silver, gold, coal and limestone. It also the source of major agricultural resources in the Philippines like pineapple, corn, coffee, copra, cocoa and abaca (hemp).The bodies of water surrounding the island of Mindanao is likewise has a rich variety of fish, shellfish and corals.
Mindao is neighboring the countries
of of Malaysia and Indonesia. Its proximity to these two countries explains the very early migration of people between the countries. Asian principalities, adopting influences from both Buddhism and Hinduism.
Prehistory Main article: Prehistory of the Philippines
The earliest archeological evidence for man in
the archipelago is the 40,000-year-old Tabon Man of Palawan and the Angono Petroglyphs in Rizal, both of whom appear to suggest the presence of human settlement prior to the arrival of the Negritos and Austronesian speaking people.[10]
The Negritos were early settlers but their
appearance in the Philippines has not been reliably dated.[11] and they were followed by speakers of the Malayo-Polynesian languages, a branch of the Austronesian languages, who began to arrive in successive waves beginning about 4000 B.C.E, displacing the earlier arrivals.[12] [13]
By 1000 B.C. the inhabitants of the
Philippine archipelago had developed into four distinct kinds of peoples: tribal groups, such as the Aetas, [Hanunoo people| [Hanunoo]], Ilongots and the Mangyan who depended on hunter-gathering and were concentrated in forests; warrior societies, such as the Isneg and Kalingas who practiced social ranking and ritualized warfare and roamed the plains; the petty plutocracy of the Ifugao Cordillera Highlanders, who occupied the mountain ranges of Luzon; and the harbor principalities of the estuarine civilizations that grew along rivers and seashores while participating in trans-island maritime trade. [14]
Around 300–700 C.E. the seafaring peoples
of the islands traveling in balangays began to trade with the Indianized kingdoms in the Malay Archipelago and the nearby East