This system of indirect rule helps create…

1540 CE to 1683 CE

This system of indirect rule helps create in rural areas a Filipino upper class, referred to as the principalia or the principals (principal ones).

This group has local wealth; high status and prestige; and certain privileges, such as exemption from taxes, lesser roles in the parish church, and appointment to local offices.

The principalia is larger and more influential than the preconquest nobility, and it creates and perpetuates an oligarchic system of local control.

Among the most significant and enduring changes that occurs under Spanish rule is that the Filipino idea of communal use and ownership of land is replaced with the concept of private, individual ownership and the conferring of titles on members of the principalia.

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Manila Manila Metro Philippines View →

People
Miguel López de Legazpi View → Philip II of Spain View →

Groups
Negrito View → Igorot people View → Malays, Ethnic View → Islam View → Philippines, pre-Spanish View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Augustinians, or Order of St. Augustine View → Franciscans, or Order of St. Francis View → Dominicans, or Order of St. Dominic View → Spain, Habsburg Kingdom of View → Spaniards (Latins) View → Jesuits, or Order of the Society of Jesus View → Philippines, Spanish colony of the View →

Topics
Colonization of Asia, Spanish View →

Commodities
Grains and produce View → Spices View →

Subjects
Faith View → Government View →

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