Book contents
- The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
- The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
- The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps and Charts (in color plates)
- Illustrations (in color plates)
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction: The Geography of the Indian Ocean and Its Navigation
- Part I The Ancient Routes of Trade and Cultural Exchanges and the First States (Sixth–Second Millennium bce)
- Part II The Birth of the Afro-Eurasian World-System (First Millennium bce – Sixth Century ce)
- Introduction
- Chapter 8 The Beginnings of the Iron Age
- Chapter 9 The Roads to the Orient
- Chapter 10 India: The Birth of a New Core
- Chapter 11 Southeast Asia, an Interface between Two Oceans
- Chapter 12 China: From Kingdoms to Unification
- Chapter 13 Arabia: Maritime Cultures and the Rise of the Caravan Trade
- Chapter 14 East Africa: The Emergence of a Pre-Swahili Culture on the Azanian Coast
- Chapter 15 The Austronesian Expansion and the First Malagasy Cultures
- Bibliography
- Index of Geographical names
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Chapter 11 - Southeast Asia, an Interface between Two Oceans
from Part II - The Birth of the Afro-Eurasian World-System (First Millennium bce – Sixth Century ce)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 October 2019
- The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
- The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
- The Worlds of the Indian Ocean
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Maps and Charts (in color plates)
- Illustrations (in color plates)
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction: The Geography of the Indian Ocean and Its Navigation
- Part I The Ancient Routes of Trade and Cultural Exchanges and the First States (Sixth–Second Millennium bce)
- Part II The Birth of the Afro-Eurasian World-System (First Millennium bce – Sixth Century ce)
- Introduction
- Chapter 8 The Beginnings of the Iron Age
- Chapter 9 The Roads to the Orient
- Chapter 10 India: The Birth of a New Core
- Chapter 11 Southeast Asia, an Interface between Two Oceans
- Chapter 12 China: From Kingdoms to Unification
- Chapter 13 Arabia: Maritime Cultures and the Rise of the Caravan Trade
- Chapter 14 East Africa: The Emergence of a Pre-Swahili Culture on the Azanian Coast
- Chapter 15 The Austronesian Expansion and the First Malagasy Cultures
- Bibliography
- Index of Geographical names
- Name Index
- Subject Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
Summary
Southeast Asia is a clear example of how new techniques (both of power and production) and products “generate new social forms” (Higham 2002: 291). In Vietnam, Yunnan, and Thailand, the development first of bronze, and later iron metallurgy, led to exchanges and migrations, and fostered the intensification of agriculture as well as the emergence of powerful chiefdoms; the attendant process of militarization can be seen from the large amount of weapons recovered. Bronze working began in northern Vietnam, northeastern Thailand, and central Thailand as early as the second millennium bce.
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- The Worlds of the Indian OceanA Global History, pp. 484 - 520Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019