HIST 80a Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Angkor Thom, Theravada, Bayon
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Art and religion in southeast asia lecture notes. Not all people of southeast asia came from china the definition of china varies. Southeast asia borrowed many features from india, it is not indianized , it has its own distinct culture. Matrilocality is a system of organizing families, in which women own the home, control the house and children. The family passes through the mothers, and marriages were sometimes temporary, or passing. The java trench aka sunda trench is known as one of the greatest graveyard sights of ships for it is extremely deep. Singapore is an area of shipment and exchange; an entrepot, with a strong economy. Basar malay emerged as a trading language, it is designed as an easy to learn language. The success of the language helped make the malay area wealthy and powerful. Basar means market, and basar malay was the basis for the modern languages of malaysia and indonesia.