URBAN AND RURAL AREA

EARLY CONTACTS

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URBAN AND RURAL AREAS

URBAN AREA
CHARACTERIZED BY:

HIGHER POPULATION DENSITY

VAST HUMAN FEATURES IN COMPARISON TO AREAS
SURROUNDING IT

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URBAN AREAS ARE CREATED AND FURTHER DEVELOPED BY THE

PROCESS OF URBANIZATION.

MEASURING THE EXTENT OF AN URBAN AREA HELPS IN ANALYZING

POPULATION DENSITY AND URBAN SPRAWL, AND IN DETERMINING
URBAN AND RURAL POPULATIONS.

METRO MANILA

ESTIMATED POPULATION : 16.3 MILLION

MOST POPULATED METROPOLITAN AREA IN THE PHILIPPINES
11 IN THE WORLD
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HOWEVER, THE GREATER URBAN AREA IS THE 5

LARGEST IN
THE WORLD WITH A POPULATION OF 20,654,307 PEOPLE
INCLUDING THE METRO MANILA.
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THE PHILIPPINES HAS TWELVE METROPOLITAN AREAS AS DEFINED

BY THE NATIONAL ECONOMIC AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
(NEDA).

RURAL AREA
ARURAL AREAIS AN OPEN SWATH OF LAND, IN GENERAL, IT IS A
GEOGRAPHIC AREA THAT IS LOCATED OUTSIDE THE CITIES AND TOWNS

RURAL AREA IN THE PHILIPPINES

ABOUT HALF OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE LIVE IN RURAL AREAS
POVERTY IS THE MOST SEVERE AND MOST WIDESPREAD IN THIS
AREAS.

AGRICULTURE
IN GENERAL, ILLITERACY, UNEMPLOYMENT, AND THE INCIDENCE OF
POVERTY ARE HIGHER AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND PEOPLE
LIVING IN THE UPLAND AREAS.

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OVERALL, MORE THAN A ONE THIRD OF THE PEOPLE IN THE

PHILIPPINES LIVE IN POVERTY.

THE POOREST OF THE POOR ARE THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, SMALLSCALE FARMERS WHO CULTIVATE LAND RECEIVED THROUGH
AGRARIAN REFORM, LANDLESS WORKERS, FISHERMEN AND PEOPLE
LIVING IN UPLAND AREAS.

THERE ARE SUBSTANTIAL DIFFERENCE IN THE LEVEL OF POVERTY

BETWEEN REGIONS AND PROVINCES AND THE POVERTY GAP BETWEEN
URBAN AND RURAL AREAS IS WIDENING.

EARLY CONTACTS

CHINESE
TRADE

THE EARLIEST DATE SUGGESTED FOR DIRECT CHINESE CONTACT WITH THE
PHILIPPINES WAS 982 CE.

AT THE TIME, MERCHANTS FROM MA-I OR MAYI BROUGHT THEIR WARES

TO GUANGZHOU.

THIS WAS NOTED BY THE SUNG SHIH (HISTORY

OF SUNG) BY MA TUAN-LIN
WHO COMPILED IT WITH OTHER HISTORICAL RECORDS IN THE WEN-HSIEN
TUNG-KAO AT THE SAME TIME AROUND THE TRANSITION BETWEEN THE
SUNG AND YUAN DYNASTIES

THE GROWTH OF ISLAM SULTANATE

IN 1380, MAKHDUM KARIM, THE FIRST ISLAMIC MISSIONARY TO
THE PHILIPPINES BROUGHT ISLAM TO THE ARCHIPELAGO.

ARAB, MALAY AND JAVANESE MISSIONARIES.

LATER BACAME CHRISTIAN UNDER THE SPANISH COLONIZATION

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SULTANATE OF SULU LARGEST ISLAMIC KINGDOM OF SOUTHEAST ASIA

AND MALAY ARCHIPELAGO

THE ROYAL HOUSE OF THE SULTANATE CLAIM DESCENT FROM THE

PROPHET MUHAMMAD

AROUND 1405,SUFI TRADERS I TRODUCED ISLAM INTO THE HINDUMALAYAN EMPIRES AND FOR ABOUT THE NEXT CENTURY THE SOUTHERN
HALF OF LUZON AND THE ISLANDS SOUTH OF IT WERE SUBJECT TO THE
VARIOUS MUSLIM SULTANATES OF BORNEO

SULTANATE
OF
BRUNEI

AROUND THE YEAR OF 1500 CE, THE KINGDOM OF BRUNEI UNDER SULTAN
BOLKIAH ATTACKED THE KINGDOM OF TONDO AND ESTABLISHED A CITY
WITH THE MALAY NAME SELURLONG

THE TRADITIONAL RAJAS OF TONDO RETAINED THEIR TITLES AND PROPERTY

BUT THE REAL POLITICAL POWER BECAME TO RESIDE IN THE HOUSE OF
SOLIMAN.

EXPANSION TRADE
PHILIPPINES EMERGENT PHASE

1 AND 14 CENTURY
CHARACTERIZED BY INTENSIVE TRADING AND SAW THE RISE OF DEFINABLE SOCIAL
ST

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ORGANIZATION AND AMONG THE MORE PROGRESSIVE COMMUNITIES THE RISE OF

CERTAIN CULTURAL PATTERNS

THE ADVANCEMENTS THAT BROUGHT THIS PERIOD WERE MADE POSSIBLE BY THE
INCREASED USE OF IRON TOOLS, WHICH ALLOWED SUUCH STABLE PATTERNS TO
FORM.

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LAGUNA COPPERPLATE INSCRIPTTION

THE FIRST SURVIVING ARTIFACT FROM THE PHILIPPINES

WRITIEN IN 900 CE
MARKING THE END OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED PHILIPPINE
PREHISTORY AND HERALDING THE EARLIEAST PHASE
OF THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY.