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History of Bulacan
The earliest archeological evidence for human habitation in the
Philippines archipelago is the 40,000-year-old Tabon Man of
Palawan and the Angono Petroglyphs in Rizal. By 1000 B.C. the
inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago had developed into four
distinct kinds of peoples: tribal groups who depended on hunter-
gathering and were concentrated in forests; warrior societies who
practiced social ranking and ritualized warfare and roamed the
plains; the petty plutocracy of the Ifugao Cordillera Highlanders,
who occupied the mountain ranges of Luzon; and the harbor
principalities of the estuarine civilizations that grew along rivers
and seashores while participating in trans-island maritime trade.
History of Bulacan
•Around 300–700 C.E. the seafaring peoples of the islands traveling
in balangays began trading with the Indianized kingdoms of
Maritime Southeast Asia and nearby East Asian principalities,
adopting influences from Buddhism and Hinduism.
•During the reign of the Tang emperors in the 10th century, Arab
and Chinese traders began to come to Bulacan, with both Indian
and Chinese influences intensifying in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Bulacan had by this time became an entreport and the Bulakeños
expert seafarers.
History of Bulacan
They built and sailed various types of ships, river canoes and larger
vessels to carry merchandise, with up to hundred rowers and 30
fighting men. They lived in houses made of wood, bamboo and
palm leaf thatch, had a syllabary written on bark and bamboo,
played music, wore silk doublets and loin clothes or flowing skirts
and flimsy blouses and jewellery. They had devised a social scheme
of nobles, freemen and serfs and buried their dead in formal
graveyard (with grave furniture consisting of imported Chinese
pottery) at least one example of which can still be seen in Bulacan
today.
History of Bulacan
•The history began when a settlement of fishermen lived along the
coast of Manila Bay before the coming of the Spaniards. These
settlers moved inland and begun farming as they discovered the
interior was fertile and drained by the network of rivers and
streams. The settlements flourished and grew into what is now
known as the province of Bulacan.
•The Laguna Copperplate Inscription or the LCI was discovered at
the Lumbang River in Laguna in 1991 (and deciphered by Antoon
Postma of Mangyan Heritage Center in Mindoro).Historians such as
Zeus Salazar of the University of the Philippines, consider the date
of the LCI AD 900 as the commencement of recorded Philippine
history rather than 1521.
Etymology of Bulacan
•It is believed that flowers bloomed in the region when the Spaniards
came. Because of these sprawling green orchards, vegetables and
profusely flowering plants, as well as attractive women, this land had
come to be called Bulacan as sort of shortened term for "bulak-lakan"
and/or a derivative of the word "bulak" (kapok or cotton) which
abounded in the province before the Spaniards came.
San Agustin Church (Manila) (1720) Sta Maria Church. (Ilocos) (18th Century)