IMPORTANCE OF NATURAL
RESOURCES AND THE
LIVELIHOOD OF THE EARLY
FILIPINOS
Civics
Lesson 5
Technology Development
• The old stone age (50,000 BC - 8,000 BC)
• New stone age (8,000 BC - 500 BC)
• Metal age (200 BC - 1000 AD)
The old stone age
• Filipinos used instruments of rough stones that they
sharpened
• these instruments were made from chert, andesite and
opaline
• they used these instruments for hunting, fishing, and
getting food inthe forests
New stone age
• the early filipinos learned to smoothen the rough
stone instruments
• the stone instruments that they used to cut trees
and bones of animals were shaped like an ax
• the instruments were made of hard shells and
stone made of nephrite and jade
• they also made instruments for cooking, jar and
the jug as water container or a burial place for the
dead
• cooked food by using fire
Metal age
• they discovered to use metals such as iron and gold
• they use these metals to make jewelry, armor and
industrial equipment
• they also learned carpentry and cloth weaving using the
blackloom
Natural Resources and Livelihood
• The center of industry of the early Filipinos was
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farming.They planted corn, rice, coconut, abaca, sugar
cane, banana, vegetables and root crops.
They learned the system of irrigation. example is the rice
terraces
Fishing and diving
They made boats for trade and battle. They call the boats
karakoa, prau, vinta, birey, lapis and topaque.
Mining - our country is rich in minerals like gold, tin, silver
and iron
Wine industry - tuba and lambanog from coconut, basi
from sugar cane, pangasi and tupay from rice
2 system of farming
• kaingin
• cultivation
Kaingin
• is also called slash and burn method
• was done by clearing, burning and cutting trees in the
forest. then they would plant and grow different plants in
this site
Cultivation
• they toiled and tilled the land with the help of a carabao.
2 System of Land Ownership
• Private
• Public
Private Property
• lands which were inherited, bought or given as a gift.
• these are lands owned by the datus
Public Property
• land that were very difficult to cultivate,not fertile or near
the mountains
• anyone could farm in these lands
• rivers, forests, mines and other places
Early Commercial Trade
• Interisland Commercial Interaction
• Interaction and Trade with Foreigners
• The Orang Dampuan-Filipino Commerce
• Chinese-Flipino Commerce
• Arab-Filipino Commerce
• Hindu-Filipino Commerce
• Japanese-Filipino Commerce
Interisland Commercial Interaction
• trading of products in other provinces or islands in Luzon,
Visayas, Mindanao
• barter system was the way of commerce. it was done by
exchanging products with other products such as farm
products, animals and the aliping saguiguilid
Interaction and Trade with Foreigners
• the many islands in our country became attractive
locations for trade and commerce with foreigners
The Orang Dampuan-Filipino Commerce
• they were the first group of Chinese merchants
who sailed in from southern annam, vietnam
• they were in small, flat-bottomed open boats
called champa or champans
• they trade with the early filipinos in sulu from 900
to 1200 AD
• they had a trading misunderstanding with another
group of traders, the Buranos, they left the
Philippines and returned to their country
Chinese-Filipino Commerce
• traded with China during Tang dynasty in the 10th century
BC
• products were silk cloth, porcelain, gold thread, jade,
mirror, musk
Arab-Filipino Commerce
• Arabs arrived in Mindanao in the 9th century
• they traded religion, Islam and government, Sultanate
• products were carpet, muslin, oilcloth, linen, metal
instruments and gems
Hindu-Filipino Commerce
• there was no direct interaction between Philippines and
India
• it was through Indonesia that India and Philippines had a
chance to engage in commerce.
• traded sanskrit words such as wika, isla, sampalataya,
halaga, diwata, asawa, tala
• system of writing, wearing of sarong and the putong
Japanese-Filipino Commerce
• the japanese came to Manila and at the coastal towns of
the Lingayen Gulf and Cagayan on 654 AD and in 13th
century
• traded shell and fish industries
• duck-raising, armor-making and skin coloring
• japanese taught the Filipinos the values of creativity, hard
work and loyalty
Q&A
• The age where Filipinos used instruments made of rough
stones.
• Old Stone Age
• The system of farming which toiled and tilled the land with the
help of a carabao.
• Cultivation
• The system done by exchanging products with other products.
• Barter System
• The system done by clearing, burning and cutting trees in the
forest.
• Kaingin System
• The first group of Chinese merchants who sailed in from
southern Annam, Vietnam.
• Orang Dampuan
• The lands which were inherited, bought or given as a gift to the
datu.
• Private
• The lands which were very difficult to cultivate, not fertile and
near the mountains.
• Private
• They are the first came to manila and taught about the fish
industries, duck raising, armor-making and skin coloring.
• Japanese-Filipino Commerce
• They brought silk cloth, porcelain, gold thread, jade, mirror,
musk and others in the Philippines.
• Chinese-Filipino Commerce
• The exchange of products with other Filipinos in other
provinces or islands.
• Interisland Commercial Interaction
Explain the system of farming of the early
Filipinos.
• Our forefathers used the two systems of farming. The
kaingin and the cultivation. The kaingin is a system done
by clearing, burning and cutting trees in the forest.
Cultivation is toiling and tilling the land with the help of a
carabao.
Describe the local and foreign commercial
trades of the early Filipinos.
• The foreign commercial traders like chinese exchange
their products of silk cloth, porcelain, gold thread and
others. Our forefathers traded rootcrops, pear and shells.
• The Japanese traders, taught us the values of creativity,
hard work and loyalty.