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1. Pre-colonial Period
• Pre-colonial literary pieces transferred in traditional narratives, speeches,
and songs include Tigmo in Cebuano, Bugtong in Tagalog, patototdon in
Bicol, and paktakon in Ilonggo. Baybayin was the pre-colonial writing
system in the Philippines. Some modern scripts in the Philippines
descended from Baybayin.
6. Contemporary/Modern Period
• The American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Great Divergence,
the Industrial Revolution and the Russian Revolution happened in this
period. Primarily, it took most of the human history up to the year 1804 for
the population of the modern world to reach its 1 billion mark.