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Introduction

PHILIPPINE HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY

What is history?

Terms
 History  Pre-History  Proto-history  Geography  Culture **  Government **

Key words:
 Past  Record  Systematic
Chronological

 Evidenced based  Theoretical  Analytical

We can obtain evidences from


 Artifacts

Relics

Evidences are
 validated  Authenticated  measured

by measurement

this often used in pre-history

History
 is not just a record of all events transpired in

the past.  is not limited to past events  embraces the present and connected with the future.

The Best way to define History


 is dissecting the word Kasaysayan  Salaysay (narrative) and Saysay (significance)  Without which, there is no history

Elements of History
 Human Beings  Place, Time  Causality

Why do we need to study history?


 According to Carr (1970), history is a study of

human achievement. The past is intelligent to us only in the light of the present and the present can be fully understood only in the light of the past. To enable us to understand society of the past and to increase our mastery over the society of the present is the dual function of history.

Ambeth Ocampo speaks his mind:


 The point to remember is that history does

not repeat itself. We repeat history.

Pre and proto history


 dealing with the period  developing stage

where man first emerged.  Hominid human like being.  Words often associated are: fossils, artifacts (made out of stone) among others.

towards complexities  proto-pioneer, beginnings.  E.g. Barangay

Geography deals
 with the structure of  Topography specific

the earth  Surface  Physical forms such as landmasses and bodies of water  Demography

description of the earth


Surface Shape Form

Philippines geographically speaking


 Very mountainous  Plains near the coast  Archipelagic  Mountain Ranges

include:
Sierra Madre Cordilla Central Mts.

Kalatungan Mountain Range

Art.1: Philippine National Territory


 The national territory comprises the Philippine

archipelago, with all the islands and waters embraced therein, and all other territories over which the Philippines has sovereignty or jurisdiction, consisting of its terrestrial, fluvial and aerial domains, including its territorial sea, the seabed, the subsoil, the insular shelves, and other submarine areas. The waters around between, the connecting the islands of the archipelago, regardless of their breadth and dimensions, from part of the internal waters of the Philippines.

Key words:
   

Terrestrial Fluvial Aerial Insular shelves usually defined as the existing underwater seabeds that occur just beyond the perimeter of an island within a depth of 600 feet (from ehow.com)

Since other nations are also bounded by the same bodies of water
 UNCLOS intervened  settle disputes by setting demarcation  EEZ (exclusive economic zone)  Spratly s Islands fall within the 200 league

stretch

In a local setting
Regions
 At present there are 17 regions in the country  Region(s): administrative set up for better governance of the provinces  The clustering of provinces can only take place when
they are geographically (situated) close to each other they share the same language and perhaps practices it has mandate of the public
E.g. Palawan

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