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Southeast Asian Interconnections: Geography, Networks and Trade

By Derek Heng

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9781108907095, 9781108827423, 110882742X
DOI
10.1017/9781108907095
ISSN
2632-3427
Open Library ID
OL40318941M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6189457 bytes)
Series
Elements in the Global Middle Ages
Pages
75\100
Topic
History
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2023-10-31 00:52:34

Description

Since the late first millennium CE, Maritime Southeast Asia has been an inter-connected zone, with its societies and states maintaining economic and diplomatic relations with both China and Japan on the east, and the Indian Sub-Continent and Middle East on the west. This global connectedness was facilitated by merchant and shipping networks that originated from within and outside Southeast Asia, resulting in a trans-regional economy developing by the early second millennium CE. Sojourning populations began to appear in Maritime Southeast Asia, culminating in records of Chinese and Indian settlers in such places as Sumatra, Malay Peninsula and the Gulf of Siam by the mid-first millennium CE. At the same time, information of products that were harvested in Southeast Asia began to be appropriated by pockets of society in China, the India and the Middle East, resulting in the production of new knowledge and usages for these products in these markets.

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