What emerges is a movement of migrants from the Arabian Peninsula toward many parts of Southeast Asia including the Philippines, establishing settlements and laying the foundation for institutions that have been entrenched and sustained even during the colonial period. Drawing from secondary sources as ...
Relatively little research has been conducted on the early colonial demographic history of the Philippines, but it has been estimated that in 1565 the population may have been between 1 and 1.25 million Phelan, 1959, Corpuz, 1988, De Bevoise, 1995. By 1655 it had fallen to between 500,000...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook preinvasion (ˌpriːɪnˈveɪʒən) adj occurring before an invasion Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 200...
During the pre-colonial period in the Philippines, it is believed thatFilipino Martial Arts were already in existence, and skilled warriors known as“Mandirigma”, an elite warrior class, practiced these indigenous martial arts. These martial arts were deeply embedded in the culture and society of ...
In the high-water period of the history of the Song dynasty’s tribute system, between 960 and 1022, almost half (twenty-three) of the fifty-six missions that arrived from kingdoms in the southern seas were from the Middle East. John Chaffee (2006) “Diasporic Identities in the Historical...
a common lament among Spanish observers in early colonial Philippines: native jewelry crafting traditions had been mostly forgotten and whatever the present-day “Indians” did produce paled in comparison to those made by their ancestors. Alcina, for example, writes of a gold chain found in Samar...
More than one-third of the world’s coral reefs are located in the territories of Australia, Indonesia and Philippines. Coral reefs host far more number of animal phyla than those hosted by tropical rainforests. Which of the statements given above is/are correct?