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In pre-Spanish Philippines, there was no concept of private land ownership. The land was considered sacred and belonging to gods. People practiced shifting cultivation where the person cultivating the land owned it temporarily. This later transitioned to a system of sedentism and barangays, where communities lived permanently under a Datu. Communal land ownership was practiced, where families had usufruct rights to cultivate portions of land. The barangay system ensured everyone had access to land.
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- john
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