For Monday's class, please read Murphey, Chapter 7, and be prepared to discuss the following questions (there might be a quiz):
- List the countries of Southeast Asia (old and new names for two of them).
- Where did the people of Southeast Asia originally come from?
- Why is java so fertile, and what food plants are native?
- Which countries got significant Indian culture, and what forms of culture did they get?
- The first kingdoms were based on what rather than agriculture?
- Who brought Islam to insular (=island) Southeast Asia?
- What is the significance of the Malaka Straits?
- What Islamic custom was rejected in Southeast Asia?
- Describe Angkor.
- Which was the only state of Southeast Asia to be Sinified (=Chinesified) rather than Indianized?
- What culture and language family dominate insular Southeast Asia?
- What is Srivijaya? Borobudur?
- Describe the Philippines before the Spanish conquest and the cultural effect of four centuries of Spanish control there.
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