PHILIPPINE HISTORY (REVIEWER)
Ocean.
History – “Reasearch into the past” that makes us
understand the present and is open for
interpretation.
Task of Historians
 Looking for things that survived in the past.
 Accertains that remnants are really from the
past.
 He relates whether those things or activities
are really from the past.
Remnant – material/ thing from the past.
Factors to Consider for Us to Say that History is
Accurate
 It must be an eye-witness account
 There must be other eyewitness that will
substanciate the report
 The event must be wide circulated
 There must reports of the same event
3 Major Theory on the Existence of the
Philippines
 Lemurian Theory
- Also called “Mu”
- Most controversial but becoming scientific
theory
- Lost continent located in the Antlantic
ocean.
Samuel Aun Meor / Samael Aun Weor
 author of “La Felicidad Medienta de
la Meditacion Superior” (Central
Happiness of Suprior Meditation)
James Churchward
 wrote a book about the continent
“Mu”
 “The Sacred Writings of Mu”
Augusta De Almeidda
 a Filipino who wrote an article about
the mythical land of Lemuria/Mu.
 Volacanic Origin Theory
- Most popular and scientific theory
- Eruption of the volcanoes under the Pacific
 Asiatic Origin Theory
- The Philippines was once part of mainland
Asia.
- Islands were formed because of the
movements of the earth
Names of the Philippines
1. Maniolas / Maniolai
- name used by Claudius Ptolemy
- means “Wonderful Land”
2. Ma-yi / Mai
- name used by Chau Ju Kua
- From the book “Chua Fan Chi”
- means “Land of Barbarians”
3. Liu Sing / Liu Sang
- land adjacent to the mainland.
4. Islas de Ponente
- means “pointed islands/mountain”
- given by the Portuguese.
5. Islas del Oriente
- means “Island of the east”
- Oriental island
- name given by the Spaniards
6. Archipelago de San Lazaro
- name given by Fernao Magalhaes
7. Islas de Felipe / Filipinas
- name given by Ruy Lopez de Villalobos
- in honor of King Philip II
- means “Island of Philip”
8. Philippine Islands
- name given by the USA during 1898
9. Republic of the Philippines
- Philippine Congress
Philippines Land Area
299,681 km2 0.2% compared to the world - proved the exitence of Homo Erectus
115,707 mi2 0.1% compared to Asia
Number of Islands Paleontology
- social sicence that deals on the study of fossils
High Tide – 7,100 islands
Low Tide – 7, 110 islands Homo Erectus
– first to come in the Philippines
Historian – studies the past Home Sapiens
Historicist – analyzes the past – Pinagmulan ng makabagong tao
Histographer – writes about the past - 45,000 – 55,000 years ago
- discovered fire.
History – study of the past
Historicity – analysis of the past Kweba ng Tabon (Tabon Cave)
Histography – writings of the past - discovered by antropologists and paleontologists

Evolution Focolare – “fireplace”

– chapters if events happening on the land
Uri ng Pagluluto
 Erosion
1. Pag- iihaw (Grilling)
 Eruption of Volcanoes
2. Pag- lalaga (Boiling)
 Separation of Land
3. Paglalagay ng mantika (Frying)
 Pagkagunaw ng Kabundukan
Mga Lahi
Pleistocene Period
- 70,00 years ago
1. Negrito
- mula sa lahi ng homo-sapiens
Migration
- 25,000 – 30,000 years B.C
- moving from one place to another
- ginamit ang tulay na lupa noong panahon
- due to lackness of resources or food
ng Pleistocene
Medicinal Plants
Iba’t ibang tawag sa mga negrito
 Flora (from Taiwan)
-Aeta -Ita -Baluga
 Dipterocarp (Puno)
-Dumagat -Agta -Abian
- Lauan
-Mamanuwa -Ata -Ati
- Tangile
-Batak -Arya
- Apitong
 Myrtacine
Nagmula sa
- Mollucas
- Bayabas
-Papua New Guinea -Aprica
- Eucalyptus
-Burma -Burneo
 Cycad & Ginkgoal (from Australia)
-Thailand -Malaya
- Palma (malaki)
-Sumatra -India
- Pitogo (maliit)
Mga Sandata/Kagamitan sa Pngangaso
Anthropology
- study of human
- Pana
- social sience that studies origin of people
 - Sumpit
- Bolo / Itak
Damit
- Balakbak (Balat ng punong kahoy)

Pagkain
- Mais

Tirahan
- sa tabi ng ilog
- sa tabi ng sapa
- sa tabi ng lawa

Matataliong Negrito
- nagmula sa Zambales
- may kaalamang pangkalikasan

2. Indones
- mula sa lahi ng Homo Erectus
- travelled by sea in two fleets
- from the mongoloid race
- first migration : 3,000 years B.C
- second wave of migration: 1,000 years B.C
- neolithic (new stone age)

Superstitious Belief
- comets may bring calamities
- singing while cooking will pair you to a
widowed half
- a pregnant eating a conjoined banana will
bear out twins

Love stories and epics

- Ibalon (Bicol)
- Darangan (Lanao)
- Biag ni Lam- ang (Ilocos)
- Hudhud (Mt. Province)
- Balitud (Ifugao)