The Greatest Southeast Asian Civilization
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Forum Name: History of Oceania, South-East Asia and Pacific
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Topic: The Greatest Southeast Asian Civilization
Posted By: Guests
Subject: The Greatest Southeast Asian Civilization
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2004 at 11:01
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Which civilization would you say was the greatest in Southeast Asia, and why.
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Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 09-Sep-2004 at 14:03
the trading sultanate of Malacca, because I like trade oriented sea powers. Certainly though the Thai would be my seconf fav though.
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"the people are nothing but a great beast...
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."
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Posted By: Scytho-Sarmatian
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2004 at 07:21
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Funan --
It was one of the earliest and most extensive S.E. Asian empires. Funan traded as far afield as Rome.
Also, I have a lot of admiration for the so-called Dong-son culture, which was the earliest, even though it was not an empire.
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Posted By: Berosus
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2004 at 07:23
If you're looking for the one that was most impressive in its heyday, I
would pick the Khmers. Their great temple-city of Angkor
outclassed anything their rivals built, and in the eleventh-early
twelfth century, they ruled most of the Southeast Asian mainland:
Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and two thirds of Vietnam. For a while
they even had an army stationed at Thanh Hoa, less than a hundred miles
south of Hanoi. However, it did not get the press it deserved,
because Marco Polo never went to Angkor; when he passed through
Southeast Asia, the only stops he made were at Champa and
Sumatra. A Chinese ambassador, Zhou Daguan, visited Angkor and
reported on it in the thirteenth century, but Westerners had to wait
until the ruins of Angkor were discovered by a French explorer around
1860.
For runners-up, I would first pick the Burmese kingdom of Pagan, for
building thousands of pagodas at its capital. The pagodas weren't
built according to any plan like Angkor; the kings simply felt they
needed to do it, to gain good karma and to show they cared for the
spiritual welfare of the people. Still, the amount of work needed
to build them is astounding, so they are impressive as a group of
buildings. Another good runner-up would be the Malayo-Polynesian
people as a whole, because they sailed across both the Indian and
Pacific Oceans, reaching and settling places very far away from
Southeast Asia like Madagascar, Hawaii and Easter Island.
For modern nations in the region, I would give the prize to
Thailand. The Thais aren't as rich as Malaysia, Singapore or
Brunei, but unlike the rest of the region, they have never been
dominated by any outside power, allowing them to progress at their own
pace. Culture shock has been avoided, and traditional
institutions like the monarchy and Buddhism have entered the modern
world relatively intact, a remarkable accomplishment when other
Southeast Asian countries have either slipped into seedy socialist
decay or lost their identity in a maze of skyscrapers, fast-food
restaurants, and the pop culture of the West. And the population,
which has grown from 17 to 62 million since World War II, is now
increasing at a much safer rate of 1.4%, almost as low as that of the
developed West.
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Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 13-Sep-2004 at 13:29
they also get the underage prostitute availability award.
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"the people are nothing but a great beast...
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value."
-Alexander Hamilton
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Posted By: lars573
Date Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 12:37
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Thai/Siamese or the Nanman (that's a chinese name don't know the name they had for themselfs)
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Posted By: Kulong
Date Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 13:08
Originally posted by lars573
Thai/Siamese or the Nanman (that's a chinese name
don't know the name they had for themselfs) |
Nanman, which literally means "Southern Barbarian" in Chinese, doesn't
refer to any single modern ethnic group. It was a term used for everyone
south of China.
Of course, this term is no longer used. And if you want to call Chinese
racist for having used such a term, consider that Romans and just about
every other superpower in human history have considered foreigners has
barbarians. Heck, even today, many Americans consider foreigners
although not really as "barbarians" but at least "beneathe them."
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Posted By: lars573
Date Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 13:44
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The Nanman I'm thinking of were probably a burmese proto people.
Also barbarian is just a latin term that means non-Roman.
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Posted By: Kulong
Date Posted: 19-Sep-2004 at 14:34
Originally posted by lars573
The Nanman I'm thinking of were probably a
burmese proto people.
Also barbarian is just a latin term that means non-Roman. |
Well then just refer to them as "Burmese proto people" or whatever
because the Chinese term of "Nanman" is much like how "barbarian"
refers to non-Romans except "Nanman" refers to specifically non-Chinese
who reside south of China, which covers numerous ethnic groups.
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Posted By: maersk
Date Posted: 30-Sep-2004 at 20:31
the majahpit dynasty, the last hindu/buddist dynasty of indonesia, controlled 80% of the indonesian archepeligo in the 1300's
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 15-Jun-2005 at 08:04
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THE KINGDOM of MAJAPAHIT from Java
bcoz they controlled all Indonesia teritory including Kamboja ( Campa ), Singapore ( Temasek ),some of Phillipine, biggest part of Malaysia, all Kalimantan/ Borneo, biggest part of Papua even some of our Historian says at its height they succesfull controlled Madagascar in east africa.
'and the second one maybe
THE KINGDOM of SRI VIJAYA from Sumatra
this Buddist kingdom controlled 80 % of Indonesia, Malaysia and Campa ( Kambodia ) they even had Buddist University which had link with India
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Posted By: Auriflambe
Date Posted: 23-Oct-2006 at 20:17
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Majapahit Empire. Because they DEFEATED the Mongols and created the largest empire in SE-Asia, and Javanese culture also blossomed during their reign!
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 10-Mar-2007 at 16:36
I think Majapahit Dynasty was the greatest. It could conquer an enormous teritory that are separated by so many starit and sea. How can such technology and political power on that period couls conntrol such a many island that are separated by sea. incredible
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 26-Dec-2008 at 05:41
My pick will be..
1. Kesultanan Melayu Melaka
2. Majapahit
3. Srivijaya
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Posted By: Voskhod
Date Posted: 27-Dec-2008 at 12:23
My pick: Khmer Empire - dominance of most of continental South East Asia in the medieval period, Angkor Wat, state structure, road system, irrigation system.
Honourable mentions (not in order):
Srivijaya - dominance of maritime South East Asia, centre of learning.
Malacca - very wealthy Islamic empire.
Atjeh - very resilient, lasting more than 400 years into the first years of the twentieth century.
Siam - continental dominance after the Khmers, high culture, resiliance in the face of foreign aggression, modern day economic success story (sort of).
Vietnam - ancient culture, literature, characteristic defeat of superpowers
Singapore, Malaysia - great economic success stories of the modern world.
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"All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes."
- Leo Tolstoy
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Posted By: Voskhod
Date Posted: 27-Dec-2008 at 12:27
Originally posted by lars573
Thai/Siamese or the Nanman (that's a chinese name don't know the name they had for themselfs) |
That would be "Thai" (the "h" is not pronounced), or "Siam" (Sa-yahm) until 1939.
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"All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes."
- Leo Tolstoy
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Posted By: Zomaan Shilogh Dyak
Date Posted: 17-Apr-2009 at 18:22
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1. Khmer Empire. Jayavarman and Suryavarman were great statesmen. Their Hindu culture has influenced all of mainland SE Asia, and they later played a role in the spread of Theravada Buddhism.
2. Majapahit and Srivijaya.
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Posted By: Nick1986
Date Posted: 13-Jun-2012 at 21:18
The Asian tigers are a remarkable success story due to their rapid modernisation
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