Lesson 2 - Sources on Philippine History before Spanish Colonization

Manunggul Jar

What is the archeology present during the 710-890 BC?

Tabon Cave

What is the archeology present during the 22,600-2,400 years ago?

Homo Luzonensis

What lived on the island of Luzon at least 50,000 to 67,000 years ago?

Angono Petroglyphs

What is the archeology present during the 2,000 BC?

Butuan Boat

What is the archeology present during the 320-1,250 AD?

Laguna Copper Plate

What is the archeology present during the 892 or 900 AD?

True

On top of the jar cover or lid of the Manunggul Jar is a boat with two human figures representing two souls on a voyage to the afterlife.

[True or False]

False

In the Manunggul Jar, the boatman is seated in front of the figure whose hands are crossed on the chest

[True or False]

Robert Fox

________ described the jar in his landmark work on the Tabon Caves, stating that “the burial jar with a cover featuring a ship-of-the-dead is perhaps unrivalled in Southeast Asia; the work of an artist and a master potter”

False

The Manunggul Jar provides a clear example of a cultural link between the archaeological past and ethnographic present. The boatman is paddling rather than steering the “ship”

[True or False]

True

Both figures in the Manunggul Jar appear to be wearing a band tied over the crown of the head and under the jaw

[True or False]

Skull-Cap

One of the earliest human remains in the archipelago is a fossilized ________ that belongs to a female estimated to be 22,000 years old

Robert Fox

He discovered the fossilized skull-cap together with its right mandible and teeth in the Tabon Cave, Palawan

Skull-Cap

It is a fossil now dated to 16,500 years, which was found in the Tabon Cave, Palawan

Mandible

It is a fossil now dated to 31,000 years, which was found in the Tabon Cave, Palawan

Tibia

The oldest human fossil recovered by the National Museum during the re-excavation of the Tabon Cave is a _______ that dates back to 47,000 years

Angono Petroglyphs

It is the earliest prehistoric rock drawings studied extensively were those found at the boundary of Angono and Binangonan, Rizal Province

True

The site where the Angono Petroglyphs was found were in a rock shelter or a shallow cave about 63 meters wide, 8 meters deep and 5 meters at its highest point

[True or False]

127

How many human figures scattered on the wall through the engraving lines using a piece of stone on the surface of the rock shelter were found in the Angono Petroglyph?

Rock Art

_______ is closely linked with a system of belief of a particular group of people, which is symbolic and not just decorative

Professor Charles R. Boxer

He purchased the Boxer Codex manuscript volume in 1947 from the sale of books and manuscripts from Lord Ilchester’s library at Holland House

Boxer Codex

It dates from the late sixteenth century and contains about 270 pages of text, written probably by a Spanish and possibly by a Filipino clerk, and drawn from a variety of sources

Bisayans

The ______ are accustomed to paint their bodies with some very elegant tattoos using iron or brass rods, the points of which are heated on fire

The Philippine Islands

It is the title of Antonio Pigafetta’s Accounts

True

Antonio Pigafetta’s Accounts discuss explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

[True or False]

Emma Helen Blair

This person is the editor of Pigafetta’s Accounts

James Alexander Robertson

This person is the translator of Pigafetta’s Accounts

March 16, 1521

Pigafetta’s Account stated that they arrived at dawn on Saturday, _______, where they came upon a high land at a distance of three hundred leguas from the islands of Latroni…

Zamal

Pigafetta’s Accounts stated that they came upon a high land at a distance of three-hundred leguas from the islands of Latroni—an island named _______

March 18, 1521

Pigafetta’s Account stated that on Monday afternoon, _______, they saw a boat coming towards them with nine men in it.

Joy

Pigafetta’s Accounts stated that when they saw a boat coming towards them with nine men in it, the captain-general ordered that no one should moeve or say a word without his permission. When those men reached the shore, their chief went immediately to the captain-general giving signs of _____ because of Magellan’s arrival

March 31, 1521

When was the first catholic mass in the Philippines?

April 14, 1521

When was the First baptism in the Philippines?

500

How many men were first baptized before the mass according to Pigafetta’s Accounts?

Don Carlo

What was the name given to Raia Humabon by Magellan after the former’s baptism?

Johanna

What was the name given to the Queen by Magellan after the former’s baptism?

Catherina

What was the name given to the Queen’s Daughter (Johanna) by Magellan after the former’s baptism?

Don Fernando

What was the name given to the Prince (the one to be wedded to Catherina) by Magellan after the former’s baptism?

800

After the baptism of Queen Johanna, counting men, women, and children, how many people were baptized during that time?