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  2. History of the Philippines (900–1565) - Wikipedia

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    The earliest date suggested for direct Chinese contact with the Philippines was 982. At the time, merchants from " Ma-i " (now thought to be either Bay, Laguna on the shores of Laguna de Bay , [ 33 ] or a site called "Mait" in Mindoro [ 34 ] [ 35 ] ) brought their wares to Guangzhou and Quanzhou .

  3. History of Rwanda - Wikipedia

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    Human occupation of Rwanda is thought to have begun shortly after the last ice age.By the 11th century, [1] the inhabitants had organized into a number of kingdoms. In the 19th century, Mwami Rwabugiri of the Kingdom of Rwanda conducted a decades-long process of military conquest and administrative consolidation that resulted in the kingdom coming to control most of what is now Rwanda.

  4. Archaeology of Rwanda - Wikipedia

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    The Belgians were blamed for polarizing the fluid social system of Rwanda into one based on race hierarchies: The Belgian colonial administration enacted this polarization via the official census of 1933–1934, which gave every Rwandan an official identity card, detailing, among other things, their specific ethnie, which equated to physical ...

  5. Velarde map - Wikipedia

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    The Philippines believes that the label Panacot on the map refers to the Scarborough Shoal, and it is the first map with label Panacot on it. [ 20 ] [ 21 ] Professor Li Xiaocong of China pointed out that the label Panacot in the 1734 map was not Scarborough Shoal, and the three groups of islands, Galit, Panacot and Lumbay also appeared in the ...

  6. Precolonial barangay - Wikipedia

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    The organization of pre-colonial Philippine states has often been described as or compared to feudalism (see non-Western feudalism), particularly in light of Marxist socioeconomic analysis. Specifically, political scientists note that political patterns of the modern Republic of the Philippines , supposedly a liberal democracy , can more ...

  7. Historiography of early Philippine settlements - Wikipedia

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    This section provides an incomplete list of key figures in the historiography of early Philippine settlements, including: early chroniclers from before and immediately after Spanish contact; historians from the Spanish colonial era; "modernist" and "nationalist" historians from the 20th century; and finally contemporary-era critical historians and historiographers.

  8. Kingdom of Rwanda - Wikipedia

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    The Kingdom of Rwanda was a Bantu kingdom in modern-day Rwanda, which grew to be ruled by a Tutsi monarchy. [1] It was one of the oldest and the most centralized kingdoms in Central and East Africa. [2] It was later annexed under German and Belgian colonial rule while retaining some of its autonomy.

  9. Indigenous peoples of the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    A map showing the traditional homelands of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines by province. The indigenous peoples of the Philippines are ethnolinguistic groups or subgroups that maintain partial isolation or independence throughout the colonial era, and have retained much of their traditional pre-colonial culture and practices.