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HISTORICAL IMAGINATION

Science>History

1. Regularities/commonalities>uniqueness
2. Controlled environs (labs) > no labs as such
3. Re-experiment>gaps in sources (years/days/centuries)
4. Systematic in Flow (of research) > not always the case (data gathering, hypothesis)
5. Passive, “Objective”, neutral mindset > use of human empathy and imagination
6. Consensus > experts, authorities, schools of thought, convincing the public
7. Incomplete and tainted sources
8. Profusion of records (scarcity of sources. Fabricating sources is no no)
9. Utilization of deductive (generalization) and inductive (rigorous) reasoning.
10. Hindsight. Accepting what happened.

PREHISPANIC ERA IN PHILIPPINES

Categories is Linear fashion

THREE EPOX: Pre-colonial-Colonial-Modern times

COLONIAL: Spanish-American-Japanese

MODERN: After world war II Osmena-Arroyo

PRE-COLONIAL sources

1. Missionary accounts (chronicles): CHIRINO, ALCINA, DELGADO, COLIN, FRAY JUAN DE PLASENCIA
2. Secular reports: ANTONIO DE MORGA, MIGUEL DE LOARCA, ANTONIO PIGAFETTA
3. Excavations/Archeological findings: HOMO LUZONESIS

Pre-colonial (Perdido Eden) is egalitarian. There is no discrimination in terms of social and political
mobility.

Barangay = 30-100 houses: Forming alliances with other barangays through Sanduguan/blood compact

Datu/Dato = leader

Raja/Raia = advisor

Atalonan/Babaylan = advisor/seer

Maharlika/Timawa = self-sufficient. Accompany datu in all activities that datu would pursue
Alipin/Uripin: Aliping namamahay (Serve DAtu to maharlika. Allowed to cultivate lands and build houses)
Aliping sa guiguilir/ saguiguilid (Prisoners of war. Could be sold but could be freed)

Panday = common workers.

Tattoo/pintados is important because beauty, identity, social status.

Age of Discovery/Age of Explorations -1453- Portugal and Spain

TREATY OF TORDESILLAS = divided the world. PORTUGAL AND SPAIN

PORTUGAL-eastern route-Prince Henry

SPANISH-western route-Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand II-Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand
Magellan

Magellan -Elcano expedition- August 20, 1519-Sept 07, 1522 >5 ships-1 ship

Survivors: Antonio Pigadetta and Enrique

Retrieved: Villallobos, Saavedra

1565 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi 1st Gobernador Heneral in the Philippines

1st 100 years of Spanish Era = Foreign invasions, Revolts-religious, land disputes, political, personal
(Francisco Dagohoy)-

Pueblos-principalias

Evangelizations-Augustinians, Recollects, Dominicans, Jesuits, Franciscans

 Spanish Words
 Fiestas and siestas
 Catholicism
 Racial stratification

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