South East Asia & Oceania

1. South East Asia &Oceania • Robert Bozza - Amaz Qureshi - Eugene Briskman - & Chris Varghese

2. 8,000 B.C.E - 600 C.E. • In Southeast Asia, groups of nomadic people from Central and East Asia settle and establish permanent settlements in Vietnam. • Since 40,000 B.C. the aborigines lived in Australia and retained a tribal identity ever since.

3. 600 - 1450 • First settlers of the Pacific Islands come from Indonesia and Australia. • Indian Ocean trade becomes the preferred form of trade between the Indians, Arabs, East Africans, Southeast Asians, and later even the Chinese. Indian Ocean trade offered faster and safer trade than the silk road, as long as the mariners were weary of the monsoons. • The Angkor Wat is constructed in the early 1200 as homage to Vishnu, a Hindu goddess.

4. These were some inventions that made trade on the Indian Ocean possible.

5. 1450-1750 • Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan open up trade between Europe and Southeast Asia. • Southeast Asia becomes a melting pot for religious diversity, for its Buddhist, Muslim and Christian populations. • Spain begins to establish ports in the Mariana Islands • The Dutch VOC colonize Southeast Asia in search of spices, a much sought after good at the time. Later they would introduce cash crops such as rubber to Southeast Asia, and strip mine it for its rich tin deposits.

6. 1750-1914 • 1770 - James Cooks journeys open the Pacific for British, French, German and American settlements. • In 1830 the first wave of criminals are sent to the penal colony of Australia. • The United States gains Guam, the Midway Islands and the Philippines from defeating the Spanish in the Spanish American war. • Hawaii is annexed in 1893, begrudgingly by the native Queen Lili’ukolani.

7. The French take Indo-China as a colonial possession after an anti-Christian ruler kills French missionaries in Vietnam. • Siam remains an independent nation due to their advancement and political stability. Siam also served as a buffer between French Indo-China and the British ruled Myanmar. Queen Lili’ukolani was forced to hand Hawaii over to America in 1893 when American farmers overthrew her rule and annexed the islands to the USA.

8. 1914 - Present • In World War I the Japanese seize Germany’s colonial possessions in the Pacific. • Hundreds of Australia and New Zealand’s finest troops fought at the ANZAC invasion at Gallipoli. • In the Wake of the Second Sino-Japanese War Japan seizes Southeast Asia and most of Oceania. • Pearl Harbor Attack- December 7th 1941. • As a result of the containment policy and domino theory war breaks out in 1963 and leaves over 2 million people dead.

10. Change • New technology ushers in Indian Ocean Trade, which trades more than goods, it moves ideas and world religions. • Sudden insurgence of foreign rule, traditional imperialism and neo imperialism • Sudden outbreak of war in the 20th century. • Aboriginal tribal identities still remain. • Christianity, Islam and Buddhism become permanent parts of Southeast Asian society. • To this day Southeast Asia are the biggest exporters of rubber, tin, spices, and tropical fruits. Continuity

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