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15 - Crossroads region: Southeast Asia

from Part Four - Crossroads regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Michael Laffan
Edited by
Jerry H. Bentley ,
Sanjay Subrahmanyam  and
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Jerry H. Bentley
Affiliation:
University of Hawaii, Manoa
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Summary

Southeast Asia is home to a diverse array of peoples whose livelihoods once revolved around combinations of shifting swidden cultivation, wet rice production, and harvesting of rare forest and sea products. By fifteenth century, Southeast Asia was in process of affirming a majoritarian commitment to two key traditions that would ultimately define much of its mainland and insular zones: Theravadan Buddhism and Sunni Islam. The greatest single external impact on Southeast Asia in fifteenth century was the series of armadas dispatched by the Ming state between 1405 and 1433. Medieval Arab geographers and chroniclers had begun to pay closer attention to highly-valued spices of Moluccas. By 1619, the Dutch fort of Batavia, located at Bantenese port of Jayakarta, would become the capital of United East India Company operations. Sino-Thai general, Taksin extended Siamese claims on Lao and Cambodian territory. A new force was stemmed from the hamlet of Tay Son, near the old Cham heartland of central Vietnam in 1771.

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bubonic plagueAfro-Eurasian reintegrationcommon coldfalciparum malariaOld World diseasesglobal integrationyellow fever
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The Cambridge World History , pp. 372 - 392
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2015

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