Early Trade Contacts

Julie Ann Pulgan

Mellie Grace Belicena
Alyssa Dawn Remorin
C. Relations with the Indians & Chinese
 Trade 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.

 Trade relation of the Philippines with the

Indians reached its peak in the late 13th
century.
 Chao Ju-Kua 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.
 The last Filipino tribute embassy came to
China in 1421, according to the Ming-Shih
or dynastic annals of the Ming.
C. Early Relations with Japan
 Historical records show that Japanese
pirates (wako), 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.
E. Early Relations with the Muslim World
 In 1380, according to the tarsilas (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.
 The Muslim conquest of Maguindanao was
attributed to Sharif Kubungsuan, Muslim leader
of Johore, who landed in Cotabato in 1475. He
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. The Sultanate of
Maguindanao was also instrumental in the
Islamization of Mindanao.
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