Social Class Flashcards
(47 cards)
the ruling class, the educated class,
the royal class, and the privileged
class. It was from this class that the
Datu would come from.
The Maginoo
were maginoo with personal
followings (dulohan or barangay).
The Datu
His
responsibilities included
governing his
people, leading them in war, protecting
them from enemies, and settling
disputes.
Usually, _________ datu
lived with their dulohan in a town
(bayan)
4 to 10
comprised the ruling
class of the Tagalogs.
The Maginoo
Ginoo was an
honorific for
both men and women
sometimes shorted to poon
when addressing them directly) were
maginoo who had many slaves and
other valuable property like houses
and boats
Panginoon
Lineage was emphasized
over wealth; the _______ was
derogatorily referred to as
maygintawo (the fellow with a lot of
riches)
nouveau riche
maygintawo
(the fellow with a lot of
riches)
Members include those who
could claim noble lineage, members
of the Datu’s family.
Spanish spelling of Timawa (Freemen)
Timaga
were the feudal warrior class of the
ancient Visayan societies of
the Philippines
Timawa (Freemen)
They were regarded
as higher than the_______ (commoners,
serfs, and slaves) but below
the ______ (royal nobility) in the
Visayan social hierarchy. They were
roughly similar to
the Tagalog maharlika caste
uripon, Tumao
The term Timawa later lost its military and
nobility connotations and was demoted
to mean “_______” during the Spanish
conquest of the Philippines.
Freemen
During
this, the word was also introduced to
the Tagalogs, who incorrectly used
the term to refer to
_________ (more correctly
the matitimawa or tinimawa in
Visayan) and commoners in general
(tuhay or mamahay in Visayan)
freed uripon
meaning of timawa in
modern Visayan languages was reduced
to an adjective for
impoverished
They were non-slaves who could attach
themselves to the Datu of their choice
Timawa
Timawa’s
main responsibility to the Datu was
Agricultural labor
(Timawa) Members included are
illegitimate
children of Maginoo and slaves and former
alipin (slaves) who paid off their debts
Members of the Tagalog warrior class
known as _________ the same
rights and responsibilities as
the timawa, but in times of war they
were bound to serve their datu in
battle.
Maharlika
“a man of wealth, knowledge
or ability”
maharddhika, ancient language of India called
Sanskrit
In times of war, the Maharlika were
obligated to provide and prepare weapons
at their own expense and answer the
summons of the datu, wherever and whenever
that might be, in exchange for a share in
the war spoils
Ganima
maharlikas were technically
less free than the timawas because
they
could not leave a datu’s service without
first hosting a large public feast and
paying the datu between 6 and 18 pesos in
gold – a large sum in those days
alipin in Visayas
Oripun
A better description
would be to call them debtors. They could be
born ______, inheriting their parents’
debt, and their obligations could be
transferred from one master to another.
Alipin
