Lesson 3

What are the 6 facts about pre-colonial Philippines on 900-1565?

In most aspects of life, pre-colonial women enjoyed the same rights, privileges, and opportunities as did men,” wrote activist nun _________ in her essay “_______.”

She also recounted how if females were to marry, they didn’t lose their names, and in fact, among the Tagalogs, if the woman was especially distinguished (in class or achievement), the _____ takes the name of the ___

Females were also made to take charge when it comes to ______ and landholdings, and contracts with Chinese merchants even required to have women’s signatures because women were proven ____

During ______, virginity was also not seen as a value that should be upheld

Spanish worked to transform Filipinas into how women were in Iberian society — sheltered and reserved.

It’s no surprise that most pre-colonial Filipinos had no knowledge of money, but instead were trading through __

In author _____ essay “________,” she noted that early Spanish chroniclers noted that Filipinos then were already experts at evaluating the quality of gold.

The earliest filipino coin was called?

They called it such because the gold bits looked the same as the sugar receptacle called ‘___.’

Further proof that the gold bits were indeed the coins used by early Filipinos surfaced when the largest piloncito was found to weigh ___ grams, which is equivalent to one ‘mas,’ the standard weight of gold that was used across Southeast Asia.

Who noted this? “the people cling fondly to their own methods of writing and reading. There is scarcely a man, nor a woman, who does not know and practice that method, even those who are already Christian in matters of devotion.”

Those who were living in _______ were said to be the most literate among early Filipinos

Women underwent ______ to be deemed beautiful

______, a process by which the skull is made to be reshaped, was a type of body adornment in pre-colonial Philippines.

________ was done by wrapping the head of an infant with a cloth or attaching small wooden boards around an infant’s head, and then gradually taking these off upon maturity

In author and professor ______ essay, “_______,” she asserted that riddles were among the first and most common use of words.

Nonsense words were also coined just so it can go well with a particular rhythm

”_______” essaysnack underscores the importance of rice for pre-colonial Filipinos

If people were eating without it, it was just considered a _____weddings, not a meal

Not only was rice important in the day-to-day meals of earlier Filipinos, rice was also used in _______ where couples would exchange balls of rice

The many words Filipinos used for rice — palay is ___, bigas is ______

The ______, a Spanish manuscript detailing the lives of pre-Spanish Philippines, includes details of how when a woman got her first menstruation, she underwent a ceremony known as “_____,” where she was blindfolded and secluded in a windowless space for ______

Once her menstrual period was over, she was led to a___ for a bath but her feet were not allowed to touch the ground, so she was either carried or made to walk on an elevated pathway