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t. e. The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippine archipelago's inhabitants, the pre-colonial forebears of today's Filipino people. Among the cultural achievements of the native people's belief systems, and culture in general, that are notable ...
The recorded history of the Philippines between 900 and 1565 begins with the creation of the Laguna Copperplate Inscription in 900 and ends with the beginning of Spanish colonization in 1565. The inscription records its date of creation in 822 Saka (900 CE). The discovery of this document marks the end of the prehistory of the Philippines at ...
Locations of pre-colonial principalities, polities, kingdoms and sultanates in the Philippine archipelago Also known to a lesser extent as the Pre-Philippines period, is a pre-unification period characterized by many independent states known as polities each with its own history, cultures, chieftains, and governments distinct from each other.
The prehistory of the Philippines covers the events prior to the written history of what is now the Philippines.The current demarcation between this period and the early history of the Philippines is April 21, 900, which is the equivalent on the Proleptic Gregorian calendar for the date indicated on the Laguna Copperplate Inscription—the earliest known surviving written record to come from ...
Code of Kalantiaw. The Code of Rajah Kalantiaw was a supposed legal code in the epic history Maragtas that is said to have been written in 1433 by Datu Kalantiaw, a chief on the island of Negros in the Philippines. It is now generally accepted by historians that the documents supporting the existence and history of the code, according to some ...
t. e. In early Philippine history, barangay is the term historically used by scholars [ 1] to describe the complex sociopolitical units [ 2]: 4–6 that were the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago [ 3] in the period immediately before the arrival of European colonizers. [ 4]
Umalohokan refers to the town criers of precolonial barangays in the Philippines. They were responsible for going around and making people aware of new laws and policies enacted by the Datu or chieftain. [ 1] Some historians, however, have a different interpretation. In cases of large scale disputes between barangays in the Visayas, the ...
According to the early Spanish missionaries, the Tagalog people believed in a creator-god named Bathala, [ 2] whom they referred to both as maylicha (creator; lit. "actor of creation") and maycapal (lord, or almighty; lit. "actor of power"). Loarca and Chirino reported that in some places, this creator god was called Molaiari (Malyari) or ...