Question

Why the barangay do need to have a confederation with other barangay?

Answer 1

Answer:

In early Philippine history, the barangay was a complex sociopolitical unit. which scholars have historically considered the dominant organizational pattern among the various peoples of the Philippine archipelago. The term, barangay, refers to both a house on land and a boat on water; containing families, friends and dependents and is currently the basic political unit of the Philippines.

These sociopolitical units were sometimes also referred to as barangay states, but are more properly referred to using the technical term "polity", rather than "state", so they are usually simply called "barangays", but evidence suggests a considerable degree of independence as a type of "city states" ruled by datus, rajahs and lakans and sultans. Some barangays were well-organized independent villages, consisting of thirty to a hundred households. Other barangays - most notably those in Maynila, Tondo, Panay,Pangasinan, Cebu, Bohol, Butuan, Cotabato, and Sulu were integrated into large cosmopolitan polities.