Seafaring Kingdoms
- Chapter 14:iiif -
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Many kingdoms in Southeast Asia coalesced around strategic ports athwart important trade routes.
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The Indonesian islands becamean important crossroads for seaborne trade
between the Orient and the Occident.
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The Srivijaya empire ruled the islands of Java and Sumatra circa 600 to 1100 A.D.
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The Srivijaya empire controlled the shipping that used the Strait of Malacca.
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Eventually the Majapahit
kingdom eclipsed Srivijaya power in
the region.
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Buddhism and Hinduism were the
dominant religions in Southeast Asia from
400 to 1400 A.D.
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Muslim traders from the Arabian Peninsula introduced Islam to the
region during the early 1200s A.D.
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The port kingdom of Melaka on the southwest coast of the Malay Peninsula
emerged as a center of Islam.
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Only the island of Bali has managed to maintain its Hindu religion and
culture down to the present.
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During the early-1500s, Portuguese merchants
began to wrest control of trade from
local Muslim kingdoms.
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