The Negrito , Indonesian and Malay the ancient people of the Philippines. [1] Other migrations have occurred through water travel and have occurred over thousands of years. [1]
The social and political organization of the population in the islands has become widespread . Only the farmers of Northern Luzon came up with the concept of territorialism. [1] The simple unit of government is the village , which is a group headed by a datu . In one village, the social divisions were the nobility , which included the datu; the poor ; and the slaves . There were several categories of slaves: landless peasants; the poor who have been deprived of their debt or criminal penaltiesand the prisoners of war . [1]
Islam was brought by merchants and missionaries from Indonesia . [2] By the 16th century, Islam had been established in Sulu and had spread from Mindanao ; arrived in Manila in 1565. [1] Although Islam spread to Luzon , still worship the idol of the religion of the majority of the islands of the Philippines. The Muslims carried the political concept of states led by raiders and sultans. But the concepts of the Muslims and the peasants of the Northern Luzon of territorialism did not spread elsewhere. [1] When the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century, most of the approximately 500,000 people lived in village dwellings. [1]
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