Southeast Asia: Transition among the Nagas - Dragons and Tigers: A Geography of South, East and Southeast Asia - page 383

Table 14-1 Time Line of Selected Historic Events in Southeast Asia.

Year Century Kingdom or State Important Events

51st C BC ca 5000 BC Ancestor of modern rice cultivation. Pottery .

31st C BC ca 3000 BC Domestication of cattle, dogs, pigs, chickens.

21st C BC ca 2000 BC Austronesian people arrive in Indonesia and spread

throughout archipelago.
Domestication of water buffalo.
Domestication of red jungle fowl as poultry .
Iron industry .

8th C BC ca 700 BC Dong S'on culture on mainland W omen important in society . Mariners sail

Southeast Asia. Indian Ocean. Bronze. Wet-rice irrigation—Sawah.

3rd C BC ca 200 BC Hindu Kingdom in Java anSumatra.

Beginnings of Funan in Cambodia.

Kingdom of Nam Viet. 207 BC

2nd C BC 100 AD Theravada Buddhism spreads from Sri Lanka

throughout region.

111 BC China conquers Nam Viet. Vietnamese borrow

selectively from Chinese culture—Mahayana
Buddhism, Confucianism, and Chinese
characters.

6th C AD ca 500 AD Hindu influences including concept of God-Kings.

Khmer Empire (ca 800-ca 1370). 9th C AD 800 AD Angkor Wat capital of Khmer Empire.

Bagan Kingdom in Burma (until 1280s). 850 AD Beginnings of Prambanan Hindu T Temples on Java.

10th C AD Funan in Cambodia. 939 AD Funan extends from Burma to Vietnam.

Hinduism in Funan.

11th C AD 1000 AD First Indian kingdom on Kra Construction of Borobudur, Buddhist temple on Java.

Peninsula.
Rise of Thai state.

Kingdom of Myanmar. 1057 Unification of multiple states.

Kedah Kingdom on Malay 12th C AD 1136 King converts to Islam. Islam spreads

Peninsula. throughout the region by sea traders.

Champa Kingdom in Vietnam until 1471.
13th C AD

1192

Sukothai Kingdom (Thailand). 1283 Khmer writing system adopted.

Majapahit Empire in eastern Java 1293 Expansion of Majapahits throughout region from

until ca 1500. Malay Peninsula to Moluccas (possibly Papua).

A yuthaya Kingdom (Thailand). 14th C AD 1351 Great traders.

Kingdom of Lan Xang (Laos). 1353 Theravada Buddhism made official religion.

15th C AD 1445 AD Muslim Dynasty in Malacca. First of many Muslim dynasties in Malay archipelago.

16th C AD 1500 Viets move southward.

1511 Portuguese take control of Malacca.

1512 Portuguese begin trading nutmeg and mace

from the Spice Islands (Moluccas).

1521 Spanish at Cebu Island in Philippines.

Spanish Philippines. 1571 Spanish name the Philippine archipelago after

King Phillip II and set up capital at Manila.

1595 First Dutch expedition reaches Java.

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