Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- 14 Crossroads region: Central Asia
- 15 Crossroads region: Southeast Asia
- 16 The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history
- 17 Crossroads region: the Mediterranean
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
15 - Crossroads region: Southeast Asia
from Part Four - Crossroads regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- 14 Crossroads region: Central Asia
- 15 Crossroads region: Southeast Asia
- 16 The Caribbean region: crucible for modern world history
- 17 Crossroads region: the Mediterranean
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
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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