Southeast Asia“Crossroads of Asia”
- Chapter 14:iii -
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Southeast Asia includes modern-day Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Kampuchea, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
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Southeast Asia is located in the tropics.
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Warm temperatures and abundant rainfall makes the fertile soils of the region produce large yields of food.
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Southeast Asia can be divided into two regions: mainland and maritime.
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The maritime region comprises a number of large archipelagos.
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An archipelago is a chain of islands.
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An archipelago such as the
Philippines has over 10,000
islands.
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Indian culture diffused throughout Southeast Asia largely as a result of trade.
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Elements of Indian
cultural influence
can be seen in the
region’s religions, . . .
architecture, . . .
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legal codes, . . .
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and political ideas.
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Various local customs have managed to
survive, such as shadow
puppetry and . . .
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. . . the art of dying patterns into cloth known as batik.
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Elements of animism, the
belief that spirits inhabit animate and inanimate
things, persist in some areas.
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