3.
Archeological findings show that modern man from
Asian mainland first came over land on across
narrow channels to live in Batangas and Palawan
about 48,000 B.C.
Subsequently they formed settlement in Sulu,
Davao, Zamboanga, Samar, Negros, Batangas,
Laguna, Rizal, Bulacan and Cagayan.
STONE AGE
4. They made simple tools and
weapons of stone flakes and
later developed method of
sawing and polishing stones
around 40,000 B.C.
By around 3,000 B.C. they
were producing adzes
ornaments of seashells and
pottery. Pottery flourished for
the next 2,000 years until they
imported Chinese porcelain.
Soon they learned to produce
copper, bronze, iron, and gold
metal tools and ornaments.
Inventions
5.
The Iron Age lasted from there third century B.C. to
11th century A.D. During this period Filipinos were
engaged in extraction smelting and refining of iron
from ores, until the importation of cast iron from
Sarawak and later from China.
Iron Age
6. They learn to weave
cotton, make glass
ornaments, and cultivate
lowland rice and dike
fields of terraced fields
utilizing spring water in
mountain regions.
They also learned to build
boats for trading purposes.
Spanish chronicles noted
refined plank built
warships called caracoa
suited for interisland trade
raids.
Inventions/Discoveries
7.
Filipinos from the Butuan were trading with
Champa (Vietnam) and those from Ma-I (Mindoro)
with China as noted in Chinese records containing
several references to the Philippines. These
archaeological findings indicated that regular trade
relations between the Philippines, China and
Vietnam had been well established from the 10th
century to the 15th century A.D.
10th century A.D.
8.
The People of Ma-I and San-Hsu (Palawan) traded
bee wax, cotton, pearls, coconut heart mats, tortoise
shell and medicinal betel nuts, panie cloth for
porcelain, leads fishnets sinker, colored glass beads,
iron pots, iron needles and tin.
Trading
9.
Filipinos were already engage
in activities and practices
related to science forming
primitive or first wave
technology. They were curative
values of some plant on how to
extract medicine from herbs.
They had an alphabet, a system
of writing, a method of
counting and weights and
measure. They had no calendar
but counted the years by the
period of the moon and from
one harvest to another.
Before the Spaniards
10.
Spanish Regime
The later part of the 16th Century
Development of schools
• Colegio de San Ildefonso-Cebu-1595
• Colegio de San Ignacio-Manila-1595
• Colegio De Nuestra Senora del
Rosario-Manila-1597
• Colegio De San Jose-Manila-1601
11. Development of Hospitals
San Juan Lazaro Hospital the
oldest in the Far East was
founded in 1578.
17th and 18th Century
Successive shipwrecks of and
attacks of pirates on the galleons
led to declining profits from the
trade that led to economic
depression in Manila during the
later part of the 17th century.
Spanish Regime
12.
The Real Sociedad Economica de los Amigos Del
Pais de Filipinas founded by Governador Jose Basco y
Vargas in 1780 encouraged research in agriculture and
industry. The society promoted cultivation of indigo,
cotton, cinnamon, and silk industry.
In 1789 Manila was opened to Asian shipping,
inaugurating an era of increase in export of rice, hemp,
tobacco, sugar, and indigo, and imports of
manufacturing goods.
Spanish Regime
13.
The 19th Century
In 1863 the colonial authorities issued a royal
degree to reform the existing educational system.
In 1871 the school of medicine and pharmacy
were opened to UST, after 15 years it had granted
the degree of Licenciado en Medicina to 62
graduates.
Spanish Regime
14.
The licentiate degree equivalent to a Master degree
was granted Bachelor’s degree in pharmacy to its 1st
six graduates who included Leon Ma. Guerrero
considered was the father of Philippine Pharmacy
due to his works on Medicinal Plants of the
Philippines.
There were no school for engineering but they
offered nautical four year course for pilot of
merchant marine that includes the subject
Spanish Regime
16.
Higher education was generally viewed with
suspicion as encouraging rebellion among native
Filipinos and thus only few daring students were
able to undertake higher studies.
The expanded world trade and commerce in the
later part of the 19th century led to the rapid
development of Manila as cosmopolitan center.
Modern amenities such as steam tramways,
waterworks, newspaper, electric lights, banking
system were introduce in 19th century.
Spanish Regime
17.
Jesuits promoted meteorological studies founding
Manila observatory at the Ateneo Municipal de
Manila in 1865.
Spanish Regime