The great migration of men:
Whatever the cause of the Philippines coming to the
surface of the sea, it is certain that the ancient man came settle in it. What concerns us is that there is a possitive
proof that man was in the Philippines at least as early 21,000 years ago.
A quarter of a million years ago, in all probability,
the first human being showed their face in what are now Philippine islands. Artifacts indicate the existence of people
who resembled a Java Man. The Negritoes followed the Stone Age people about thirty thousand years ago.
These where followed by the early people of China.
They arrived some five years before the birth of Christ technology unequaled anywhere else on earth the famous
rice terraces, which are classed among the eight
man-made wonders of the world.
But the largest and most dominant migration occured
from approximately 300 to 200 BC, the Malays, travel in great canoes up coast of Borneo and by the way to the Sulu Archipelago
in the south.
Many other people followed both ancient and modern
times, and into the twentieth century itself, these last being the Chinese, Portugese, Spanish, Americans, Japanese and discernible number of Italians. They rarely mingled, so the country did
not fuse into one, but instead developed into the richest cocktail of cultural monorities in the world, nearly all developing
separately and with differing speed and success.
