EARLY

COMMUNITIES OF THE FIRST

FILIPINO

• URBAN AND RURAL AREA

• EARLY CONTACTS

URBAN AND RURAL AREAS

URBAN AREA

CHARACTERIZED BY:

•HIGHER POPULATION DENSITY

•VAST HUMAN FEATURES IN COMPARISON TO AREAS SURROUNDING IT

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• URBAN AREAS ARE CREATED AND FURTHER DEVELOPED BY THE PROCESS OF URBANIZATION.

• MEASURING THE EXTENT OF AN URBAN AREA HELPS IN ANALYZING POPULATION DENSITY AND URBAN SPRAWL, AND IN DETERMINING URBAN AND RURAL POPULATIONS.

METRO MANILA

• ESTIMATED POPULATION : 16.3 MILLION

• MOST POPULATED METROPOLITAN AREA IN THE PHILIPPINES

• 11TH IN THE WORLD

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• HOWEVER, THE GREATER URBAN AREA IS THE 5TH LARGEST IN THE WORLD WITH A POPULATION OF 20,654,307 PEOPLE INCLUDING THE METRO MANILA.

• THE PHILIPPINES HAS TWELVE METROPOLITAN AREAS AS DEFINED BY THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (NEDA).

RURAL AREA• A RURAL AREA IS AN OPEN SWATH OF LAND, IN GENERAL,  IT IS A

GEOGRAPHIC AREA THAT IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE CITIES AND TOWNS

RURAL AREA IN THE PHILIPPINES

• ABOUT HALF OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE LIVE IN RURAL AREAS

• POVERTY IS THE MOST SEVERE AND MOST WIDESPREAD IN THIS AREAS.

• AGRICULTURE

• IN GENERAL, ILLITERACY, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE INCIDENCE OF POVERTY ARE HIGHER AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND PEOPLE LIVING IN THE UPLAND AREAS.

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• OVERALL, MORE THAN A ONE THIRD OF THE PEOPLE IN THE PHILIPPINES LIVE IN POVERTY.

• THE POOREST OF THE POOR ARE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, SMALL-SCALE FARMERS WHO CULTIVATE LAND RECEIVED THROUGH AGRARIAN REFORM, LANDLESS WORKERS, FISHERMEN AND PEOPLE LIVING IN UPLAND AREAS.

• THERE ARE SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCE IN THE LEVEL OF POVERTY BETWEEN REGIONS AND PROVINCES AND THE POVERTY GAP BETWEEN URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IS WIDENING.

EARLY CONTACTS

CHINESE TRADE• THE EARLIEST DATE SUGGESTED FOR DIRECT CHINESE CONTACT WITH THE PHILIPPINES WAS 982

CE.

• AT THE TIME, MERCHANTS FROM “MA-I” OR “MAYI” BROUGHT THEIR WARES TO GUANGZHOU.

• THIS WAS NOTED BY THE SUNG SHIH (HISTORY OF SUNG) BY MA TUAN-LIN WHO COMPILED IT WITH OTHER HISTORICAL RECORDS IN THE WEN-HSIEN T’UNG-K’AO AT THE SAME TIME AROUND THE TRANSITION BETWEEN THE SUNG AND YUAN DYNASTIES

THE GROWTH OF ISLAM SULTANATE

• IN 1380, MAKHDUM KARIM, THE FIRST ISLAMIC MISSIONARY TO THE PHILIPPINES BROUGHT ISLAM TO THE ARCHIPELAGO.

• ARAB, MALAY AND JAVANESE MISSIONARIES.

• LATER BACAME CHRISTIAN UNDER THE SPANISH COLONIZATION

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• SULTANATE OF SULU —LARGEST ISLAMIC KINGDOM OF SOUTHEAST ASIA AND MALAY ARCHIPELAGO

• THE ROYAL HOUSE OF THE SULTANATE CLAIM DESCENT FROM THE PROPHET MUHAMMAD

• AROUND 1405,SUFI TRADERS I TRODUCED ISLAM INTO THE HINDU-MALAYAN EMPIRES AND FOR ABOUT THE NEXT CENTURY THE SOUTHERN HALF OF LUZON AND THE ISLANDS SOUTH OF IT WERE SUBJECT TO THE VARIOUS MUSLIM SULTANATES OF BORNEO

SULTANATE OF BRUNEI• AROUND THE YEAR OF 1500 CE, THE KINGDOM OF BRUNEI UNDER SULTAN BOLKIAH ATTACKED

THE KINGDOM OF TONDO AND ESTABLISHED A CITY WITH THE MALAY NAME SELURLONG

• THE TRADITIONAL RAJAS OF TONDO RETAINED THEIR TITLES AND PROPERTY BUT THE REAL POLITICAL POWER BECAME TO RESIDE IN THE HOUSE OF SOLIMAN.

EXPANSION TRADE

PHILIPPINES’ EMERGENT PHASE

• 1ST AND 14TH CENTURY

• CHARACTERIZED BY INTENSIVE TRADING AND SAW THE RISE OF DEFINABLE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND AMONG THE MORE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITIES THE RISE OF CERTAIN CULTURAL PATTERNS

• THE ADVANCEMENTS THAT BROUGHT THIS PERIOD WERE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE INCREASED USE OF IRON TOOLS, WHICH ALLOWED SUUCH STABLE PATTERNS TO FORM.

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LAGUNA COPPERPLATE INSCRIPTTION

• THE FIRST SURVIVING ARTIFACT FROM THE PHILIPPINES

• WRITIEN IN 900 CE

• MARKING THE END OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED PHILIPPINE

PREHISTORY AND HERALDING THE EARLIEAST PHASE

OF THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY.