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Rizal's Life Chapter 4 Part 2
Rizal's Life Chapter 4 Part 2
CHAPTER IV
Agrarian Relations and the Friar
Lands
Agrarian Relations - social relationships pertaining to land and agricultural
production. - IGI GLOBAL
Friar Lands - these lands are not public lands but private patrimonial lands of
the government. - BATAS NATIN
Hacienda - a large business enterprise consisting of various moneymaking
ventures including raising farm animals and maintaining the cultivation of
fruit trees.
Sakdal Uprising - peasant rebellion founded by Benigno Ramos.
Barrio - a Spanish word that means "quarter" or "neighborhood".
Conquistadors - any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America.
Haciendas were the dominant form of land tenure in the region
surrounding Manila.
Over the next few years, the Church sold the last estate to the
Philippine government.
The DOMINICANS, which are the largest landlords in the region,
owned 10 estates.
The AUGUSTINIANS, with seven, the Order of St. John with the
large Hacienda Buenavista in Bulacan.
The municipio was the home for the wealthier citizens of the town -
the traders,artisans, and tenants, who leased but did not actually till the
land.
Outside were the barrios where the peasants lived near the fields
they cultivated as sharecroppers and agricultural laborers.
The existence of FRIAR LANDS in the Philippines can be
traced back to the early Spanish colonial period when
Spanish conquistadors were awarded in the form of
haciendas for the loyalty to the Spanish Crown.