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ONOFRE D. CORPUZ A writer born in Camiling, Tarlac. He became the Secretary of Education from 1968-1971 and 1979-1983. He was the 13th UP President from 19751979.
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Some of his publications include: 1. The Roots of the Filipino Nation 2. National Glories: The Events of 1872 (editor) 3. Historia de Uno de los Iniciadores de la Revolucion Filipina (english translator) 4. Keeping the Spirit of 1896 alive 5. Saga and triumph: The Filipino Revolution against Spain 6. An Economic History of the Philipines
OUTLINE:
1565: Pre-colonial Native Society 1570+300: Spanish Colonization 1896-1903: War Economy 1900-1940: The American Enterprise
Southeast Asia was penetrated by China, India, and Arabia by trade and small percentage of migrations. In all of it, religion went hand in hand with trade and politics. Islam went upwards, towards the outskirts of Visayas, Palawan, Batangas up until TondoManila. No native writings, thus no native accounts of economy or politics. Even the Tarsila of the Sultante of Sulu or Maguindanao.
BARANGAY
Native Indigenous settlement According to Juan de Plasencia, the name was derived from the vessel that carried founding group in the island. Barangay culture was the form of indigenous governance. Small because the organizing principle was kinship. Existence of particularism as illustrated by the hundred of languages spoken even up to the modern times.
Technology: Boat-making, pottery, ornament making, spinning and weaving, fish corral, fowl, swine, goatraising, fermentation, rice culture.
Governance by the datu No record of inter-barangay trade.
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1570+300: SPANISH COLONIZATION The small barangays easily fell to the Spanish conquistadors. Radical transformation of the pre-conquest barangay society, ie. Native barangay population had declined.
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RECOPILACION DE LEYES DE LOS REYNOS DE LAS INDIAS - laws on Spanish possession. It declared that because of the cost of voyage and discovery, and all the expenses and support of the regime and church establishment in the Indias, the tributes formerly given to the datus are now to be given to the king. In addition, the conquistadors who supported the king are rewarded through the tribute system.
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Unsatisfactory awardees awards were given to the conquistadors in Maguindanao and Jolo, but the districts were still unconquered.
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PUEBLO SYSTEM
communities of the natives organized by the Spaniards, much larger than the old barangay. Has 500 families
Has squarish plaza at the center with the church, convent, town hall and the houses The idea is to keep the natives in and they must have adequate food and in addition, they are made to produce surpluses for their colonizers.
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Pueblo lands, a new land system where each family has a house and strip of fields around their residential area. Full-employment for the natives in agriculture, and they were required to utilize their lands by raising livestock.
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PUEBLO LAND TECHNOLOGY The carabao was broken in and taught to pull the plow and the harrow The plow was of Fukienese design Plowmaking was made a monopoly Friars desiminated the new technology by bringing trained farmers and their families with them when they transferred to other parishes.
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PUEBLO LAND TECHNOLOGY Thus, the pueblo system and pueblo agriculture combined to produce a profound socioeconomic transformation: Pueblo families were all reduced to one occupational class.
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HACIENDAS Haciendas of today (or at least for some) came from the huge land grants awarded by the king to the Church friar order, lay persons, conquistadors and the people who were good to the king. Friars built manor houses built on the estate. They brought natives and their families and Chinese meztisos as workers.
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HACIENDAS These haciendas later on became pueblos. The farmers were called inquilinos or renters.
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TRIBUTE
Basic contribution
Commodities that went into the tribute were generally food and provisions: rice or palay, salt, chicken, eggs, meat, swine, liquor.
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POLO Y SERVICIOS This system designated the natives or qoutas of men to do compulsory labor services. Usually domestic services in the house of encomendero. Men are ordered to be of service as bearers or rowers or fighting men and get a daily rice ration in exchange for their services.
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DOMESTIC TRADE 1. Legal Chinese and the lay Spanish encomenderos 2. Prohibited by law comprised of the trading of the friars and provincial alcaldes
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GALLEON TRADE Trade of Chinese and Spanish through Manila as a funnel. 2 galleons were allowed to sail from Manila each year with a cargo not exceeding 250,00 pesos each 1813 the Galleon Trade officially ended
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FOREIGN TRADE There is no produce in foreign trade. So the economy was shaped by: 1. The archaic institution of the kings estate 2. The conditions of land tenure and pueblo agriculture 3. The serious decline in the work force through a protracted loss in the tributary population
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1835 Manila opened to trade of all nations without restrictions. 1844 The rich natives and the mestizos took over the lead role in domestic trade - Trade were limited to agricultural produce 1863 annual 40 days of polo was decrease to 24.
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DUAL ECONOMY because of the absence of strong manufacturing and industry sector, agriculture and land divided the society and economy into poverty sector and rich class.
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The fighting men were overwhelmingly rural workers, small farmers, hacienda tenants The delivery of provincial produce and the businesses servicing the export and import trade ground to a halt and the ports were closed
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In scores of provinces the cedula and other taxes could not be collected The friar haciendas were taken over and thus disposed landless families, the kasama and the tulisan
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ECONOMIC DISLOCATION! Severest dislocations were in pueblo agriculture. The carabao, disappeared and was reported to have been slaughtered for food. Rice output became only 25% of the pre-war output
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POLITICAL ECONOMY
no formal national and provincial administrative experience during the Spanish era
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KATIPUNAN
Secret society by the Filipinos
Evolved as a grouping of pueblo chapters loosely united at the provincial level. The organizing factor was the common goal which is independence.
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A new approach in land was historically necessary and inevitable since the fighting men were just disposed from their holdings by the friar haciendas. The 1899 Consti settled the issue on friar hacienda that all the lands, buildings and other properties in possession of religious corporations in these islands will be deemed to the Filipino
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INSULAR GOVERNMENT
The US occupation government in Manila.
The main item on its agenda is the expansion of American trade in the Philippines by making the Phil a market for US exports and a source of cheap raw materials for its industry The growth of foreign trade from P63 779 640 in 1985 to P515 995 136 in 1940 wade the country subject to sharp economic changes
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Filipino participation in the government as political leaders A modern civil service was established. <yaaay! >
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REVENUE SYSTEM
The obligatory contribution from the Spanish friars were abolished. The absolute autonomy of provincial and municipal governments in fiscal administration was given. 1. Land tax
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