this is the question Part 1 ” A standard backpack is approximately 30cm x 30cm x 40cm. Suppose you find a hoard of pure gold while treasure hunting in the wilderness, How much mass would your backpack hold if you filled it with the gold?” Part 2 An average student has a mass of 70kg. How do these values compare?
Do we have any ancient ruins or treasures from any of our prehispanic civilizations?
Because I was reading up the histories of the Kingdom of Champa & the Khmer and they have lots of ruins and treasures even though they are now a bunch of lost civilizations. How come we can’t find any ruins from our lost civilizations?
But we indeed had them…
We had:
Sultanates: Maguindanao and Sulu.
Rajahnates: Butuan and Cebu
Dynasties: Tondo & Seludong
Confederations: The Confederation of the Datus of Panay.
Kingdoms: Sanfotsi & Zabag
But how come we don’t have any ruins and scant little treasures or evidences of them?
Except for merchant records from the Chinese & Muslims or early Spanish chroniclers we didn’t even know what our ancestors did.
It doesn’t make sense. It seems as if thousands of years of development and progress has been erased from our collective memories.
Surely, civilizations would leave a great deal of documentation. What happened to all the ancient structures, treasures, scholarship and etc. of our pre-hipanic civilizations? What happened to the legends, epics, tales?
What happened to all the stories of past Kings, Sultans, Princesses, Rajahs, Scholars, Prophets, Soldiers and etc?
How come most people don’t even remember, know or refuse to acknowledge that we had any prehispanic states?
And the scant info about them has to be culled from foreign sources, like Chinese merchant accounts, Kartillas from the Brunei Sultanate or early diaries from Hispanic missionaries…
It really irks me how we unexplicably know nothing about the perhispanic past.
I mean hell. What happened to the physical evidence of their existence? The Mexicans have Aztec ruins, the Cambodians have the Khmer ruins & the Indonesians have the ruins of Borubudor and they actually remember the previous states which used to exist in their land
How come it seems as if we don’t have any ruins or whatsoever?
How come lots Filipinos forget that we even had a past before Spain?
It’s as if thousands of years have been wiped off the memory of Philippine history forever.
Please if you know, we somehow have any ancient ruins or treasures or anything at all.
Please share your knowledge with us.
If only to plug the gaping black hole of the Philippine identity crisis due in part to a huge lack of a sense of pride for culture or history brought about by mass amnesia of the past.
Since it seems as if we had zero or nill cutlure before the Spaniards came which I know is false because I have nagging feeling that we were NOT spear chucking naked savages into cannibalism and we really did have civilizations.
Please fill my empty heart.
I really really yearn for ancestral heritage or any shred of ancient tradition.
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