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By the second or third millennium bce, the people of Southeast Asia were cultivating rice, domesticating pigs, chickens, and cattle, and forming the region’s earliest settled communities in several mainland areas congruent with present-day north Vietnam, Thailand, and Malaya. “Kingdoms” describes what little is known about the early civilizations through the region, such as at Funan and Angkor. It also describes pre-modern Southeast Asia as a world of mandala kingdoms and how Southeast Asian societies and states evolved in communication with adjacent Asian civilizations in India and China, absorbing Islam and Theravada Buddhism. After China’s withdrawal from the region, the Europeans arrived from the 1500s bringing new trade and cultural influence. |
