Title Between the Bay of Bengal and the Java Sea : trade routes, ancient ports & cultural commonalities in Southeast Asia / Maganjeet Kaur, Mariana Isa

Published Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource Summary The peoples of Southeast Asia have a long history of cultural commonalities. From Sumatra to Vietnam, the inhabitants built wooden houses on poles whether they lived in flooded coastal plains or in the highlands. Their diet consisted mainly of rice and fish. They believed in common folk deities such as the rice-spirit. They chewed betel and engaged in pastimes such as cockfighting and sepak takraw. How did such features come to spread across an area of 4.5 million square kilometres? Southeast Asia-for all its diversity of ethnicity, language, religion-can best be understood as a region that ha Subject Trade routes-Southeast Asia-History Form Electronic book Author Mariana Isa, 1980- author. ISBN 9789814893008 9814893005

Other Titles Trade routes, ancient ports & cultural commonalities in Southeast Asia Trade routes, ancient ports and cultural commonalities in Southeast Asia

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