GEOG 2RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Silk Road, European Colonialism, New Guinea
29 Dec 2018
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Local indigenous tribes, headed by chiefs" dual role as a religious and government leader c. 2000 ya, trade with civilization in china, india and the mediterranean: brought new forms of social structure, religion, agriculture and technology to. Southeast asia: consolidation of local tribes into organized empires occurred slowly. Long human occupation, more on the mainland vs the insular region: ancient civilizations in south east asia, commonly organized in familial kind of relationship with a figure head at the top (chief) or. Two dominant civilizations in the region: mainland: khmer empire (cambodia, thailand, vietnam, laos ) - c. 800-1400 ad, angkor wat (c. 12th c. , city and centre of empire, religious (hinduism) centre, c. 13th, transition to buddhism. There were two main empires, one in mainland south east asia and one in the maritime (insular) region. For the mainland it was the khmer empire which controlled cambodia, thailand for the most part, vietnam and laos (area in purple)
