RPH

• Referred to accounts of phenomena, especially human affairs in chronological order

  History
• It focuses in what, who, and when of history

  Factual history
• Focuses on why and hows of history

  Speculative
• refers to the people who write history

  historians
• a practice of historical writing

  histography
• are materials from which historians construct meaning

  historical sources
• what are the different sources of history ?

  i. narrative or literature

  ii. diplomatic sources

  iii. social documents
• a kind of source that professional historians once treated as the purest and the best source

  diplomatic source
• are information pertaining to economic, social, political orjudicial significance

  Social documents
• tracts presented in narrative form, written to impart a message whose motives for their composition vary widely

  narratives or literatures
• what are the non- written sources of history?

  i. material evidence

  ii. oral evidence
• These are diaries, letters, journals, newspaper, magazine article, government records, photographs,etc.

  primary source
• these are biographies, histories, literary criticismm newspaper journal that are interpreted

  seconday sources
• This examones the origins of earliest text to appreciate the underlying circumstances which the text came to be

  Historical criticism
• determines the authenticity of the source

  external criticism
• deteremine the historicity of the fact contained in the documents

  internal criticism
• why is history important?

  i. to learn about the past

  ii. appreciate the heritage

  iii. to understand the present

  iv. to broaden our perspective

  v. to acquire background for critical thinking and analysis
• a franciscan missionary in the tagalog region since 1578 and 1590. he made a narrative on the established culture of the tagalogs.

  juan de plasencia
• this document was requested by the monarchy of spain

  customs of the tagalog
• in pre colonial Philippines, this is the term referring to tribal gathering

  barangay
• the four caste system

  datu

  maharlika

  namamahay

  sagigilid
• the chiefs of the village; they governed the people as captains even in wars, were obeyed, and revered; any subject who committed any offense against them, or spoke to their wives and children, were severely punis

  Datu
• Do not need to pay taxes

  Must accompany the datos in war

  maharlica
• ▫ They have their own properties but has to serve their own masters (commoners) ▫

  Children belonging to this caste inherit the status of their parents

  ▫ Cannot be treated as a slave nor can be sold

  aliping namamahay
• They serve their master in their houses and lands • Can be sold off • The master can reward his/her slaves by giving them a portion of the harvest so that the slaves would be faithful to him/her

  Aliping sa guilidguilid
• the three trials in pre colonial philippines are

  i. trial by datu

  ii. trial by ordeal

  iii. trial by war