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Early Trade Contacts

The document summarizes the early trade and cultural relations between the Philippines and other Asian countries like China, Japan, India, and Arab nations. It notes that Philippine trade with China was at its height in the 14th-15th centuries, with trade with India peaking in the late 13th century. It also discusses early Japanese trade with the Philippines and the establishment of Japanese settlements. Finally, it outlines the spread of Islam in the Philippines through Muslim missionaries from Sumatra and the founding of the sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao in the 14th-15th centuries.

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Early Trade Contacts

The document summarizes the early trade and cultural relations between the Philippines and other Asian countries like China, Japan, India, and Arab nations. It notes that Philippine trade with China was at its height in the 14th-15th centuries, with trade with India peaking in the late 13th century. It also discusses early Japanese trade with the Philippines and the establishment of Japanese settlements. Finally, it outlines the spread of Islam in the Philippines through Muslim missionaries from Sumatra and the founding of the sultanates of Sulu and Maguindanao in the 14th-15th centuries.

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Julie Ann Pulgan


Mellie Grace Belicena
Alyssa Dawn Remorin
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 „rade relations with Chinese started in the
10th century (A.D. 982 is the year given in
the Sung annals) and reached its zenith in
the 14th and 15th centuries.

 „rade relation of the Philippines with the


Indians reached its peak in the late 13th
century.
 ÷ 
 described the Chinese trade
with Ma-i (Mindoro) and praised the honesty
of he Filipinos.

 Early Chinese trading junks brought goods


and immigrants to the Philippines.

 Under the Ming Dynasty, China exercised


nominal suzerainty over the Philippines, and
some Filipinos paid tribute to China.
 „he last Filipino tribute embassy came to
China in 1421, according to the Ming-Shih
or dynastic annals of the Ming.
÷ 
  
 åistorical records show that Japanese
pirates (j), kingdom builders, and settlers
had come to Luzon before and immediately
after the Spanish colonization.

 Japanese traders, especially


from Nagasaki, frequently visited
Philippine shores and bartered
Japanese goods for Filipino gold,
pearls, and native earthen jars.
 Certain shipwrecked Japanese sailors and
immigrants settled in the Philippines and
intermarried with Filipinos.

 According to Japanese records, the early


Spaniards found Japanese settlements in
Manila and Agoo, La Union Province.
 
   

 In 1380, according to the Ô

(Muslim
chronicles), the Arab missionary-scholar
Mudum landed in Sulu and there laid the
foundation of Islam in the Philippines.
 In 1390, Rajah Baginda, prince of
Menankabaw, Sumatra, led an army of Muslim
invaders to Sulu and overcame native
opposition with firearms.
 Abu Bakr, Muslim leader
from Palembang, Sumatra,
reached Sulu in 1450, and
married the daughter of
Rajah Baginda. After
Baginda¶s death, he
founded the Sultanate of
Jolo, with himself as sultan.
 „he Muslim conquest of Maguindanao was
attributed to Sharif Kubungsuan, Muslim leader
of Johore, who landed in Cotabato in 1475. åe
married a native princess and founded the first
Muslim Sultanate of Maguindanao. Kabungsuan
as sultan of Maguindanano had larger domain
than the Sultanate of Sulu. „he Sultanate of
Maguindanao was also instrumental in the
Islamization of Mindanao.
„ â

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