Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Wakos - piracy
• Laquer ware,
Japan weapons, fruits, silk,
gold
Indian Chinese
• Rajah • Sanse
• Majarajah • Diko
• Hari • Ditse
• Budhi • Ampao
• Dalit • Siopao
• Karma
• Garuda
• Tara
Literature Clothes
Food (pagkain)
(Panitikan) (Kasuotan)
• sabis • Alak • Kaggan,
• Bugtong • Tapa bahag- Male
• Kumintang • Salabat • Baro, tapis,
• Uyayi • Kanin(rice) Saya,
patadyong-
• Karagatan • Ube
female
• Tagulalay
• Putong
• Tattoo
Early inhabitants
Negritos
• Homes- temporary sheds made of
jungle leaves and branches of trees
• Made fire by rubbing two dry sticks
together to give them warmth
• Didn’t know how to cook food
• Used bow and arrow as weapon and for
hunting.
Indones
•More advanced
• Lived in grass-covered homes built above
the ground or on top of trees.
• Practiced dry agriculture
• Clothing was made from beaten bark and
decorated designs
• Cooked food in bamboo tubes
Implements: polished stone axes,
adzes and chisels
• Weapons: Bow and arrows, spears, shield
and blow guns (sumpit).
Malays
• Culturally more advanced than Negritos and
Indones
• Possessed the Iron Age culture
• Introduced into the Philippines both lowland
and highland methods of rice cultivation,
including the system of irrigation
• Domestication of animals (dogs, fowls, and
carabaos)
•Manufacture of metal tools and weapons; pottery
and weaving
Weapons: bows and arrows, spears, bolos, daggers,
krises (swords), sumpits (blowguns), shields and
armors made of animal hide and hardwood, and
lantakas (bronze cannons).
Life and Culture during the
pre-Spanish period
GOVERNMENT – DECENTRALIZED
•Baranggay- Filipinos earliest form of
government each barangay is ruled by
chieftains (datu)
•Chieftains (datu) –rule and govern his
subjects and to promote their well being
in times of peace, he was the chief
executive, legislator, and the judge.
•Laws were made by chieftains and the elders
BARANGAY
LOCAL CHIEFTAIN
COUNCIL OF ELDERS
Umalohokan
Community /
People
JUDICIAL PROCESS
Trial by Ordeal
ancient judicial practice by which the guilt or
innocence of the accused was determined by
subjecting them to a painful, or at least an
unpleasant, usually dangerous experience.
by plunging a bare arm into boiling water
by combat
by oath
by fire
SOCIAL CLASSES
NOBLES
(LOCAL
CHIEFTAINS/
PRIESTS, ELDERS
FREEMEN
(MAHARLIKA/
TIMAWA)
DEPENDENT DEPENDENT
ALIPING (ALIPING
NAMAMAHAY / SAGUIGUILID
HOUSE SERVANT) (SLAVE)
Nobles
Balaraw
Calasag
RELIGION