The Philippines

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Southeast Asia - Chapter 18iv -
The Thai Kingdom
Nagasaki
French in Indochina
The Philippines
Portuguese Spice Trade
Dutch Indonesia
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Southeast Asia - Chapter 18iv -
The Thai Kingdom
Nagasaki
French in Indochina
The Philippines

• Portuguese Spice Trade
• sought to control spice trade
• seized Melaka in 1511
• built trading posts throughout SE Asia
• tried to spread Catholicism

Dutch Indonesia
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Southeast Asia - Chapter 18iv -
The Thai Kingdom
Nagasaki
French in Indochina

• The Philippines
• discovered by Magellan in 1521
• Spanish soldiers established a colony at Manila
  in 1565 (excellent harbor a vital link in
  Asia-American trade
• local datus persuaded to swear loyalty to Spain
• introduced new crops (maize and cocoa)

Philippines
Melaka
Dutch Indonesia

• Portuguese Spice Trade
• sought to control spice trade
• seized Melaka in 1511
• built trading posts throughout SE Asia
• tried to spread Catholicism

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Southeast Asia - Chapter 18iv -
The Thai Kingdom
Nagasaki
French in Indochina

• The Philippines
• discovered by Magellan in 1521
• Spanish soldiers established a colony at Manila
  in 1565 (excellent harbor a vital link in
  Asia-American trade
• local datus persuaded to swear loyalty to Spain
• introduced new crops (maize and cocoa)

Philippines

• Dutch Indonesia
• competed with English traders for spice trade in
  1500s (forced English to leave in 1620)
• assisted ruler of Matram (on Java) defeat
  enemies in 1677
• gained control over most of Indonesia by
  late-1700s

Melaka

• Portuguese Spice Trade
• sought to control spice trade
• seized Melaka in 1511
• built trading posts throughout SE Asia
• tried to spread Catholicism

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Southeast Asia - Chapter 18iv -
The Thai Kingdom
Nagasaki

• French in Indochina
• originally governed by local emperors who ruled
  using Confucian principles
• French arrived in 1600s
• many Vietnamese were converted to Catholicism
• weak trade link allowed Indochinese to maintain
  independence
• French colonized region in the 1860s in-order to
  control rubber, coal, and rice

Indochina

• The Philippines
• discovered by Magellan in 1521
• Spanish soldiers established a colony at Manila
  in 1565 (excellent harbor a vital link in
  Asia-American trade
• local datus persuaded to swear loyalty to Spain
• introduced new crops (maize and cocoa)

Philippines
Melaka

• Dutch Indonesia
• competed with English traders for spice trade in
  1500s (forced English to leave in 1620)
• assisted ruler of Matram (on Java) defeat
  enemies in 1677
• gained control over most of Indonesia by
  late-1700s

• Portuguese Spice Trade
• sought to control spice trade
• seized Melaka in 1511
• built trading posts throughout SE Asia
• tried to spread Catholicism

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Southeast Asia - Chapter 18iv -

• The Thai Kingdom
• developed a rich culture based on Buddhism,
  Hinduism, and animism
• independent kingdom of Ayutthaya flourished
  under a series of powerful kings
• King Trailok (r. 1448-1488) set-up a strong
  central government, with separate civil and
  military branches responsible directly to him
  (redistributed land to nobles and merchants)
• conquered neighboring Burma in mid-1500s
• limited contact with Europeans between 1688 and
  1826
• King Mongkut played Europeans against
  one-another through competition
• Chulalongkorn modernized Siam, ending slavery,
  founding schools, encouraging subjects to
  study-abroad, and built roads and railroads in
  the late-1800s

Nagasaki

• French in Indochina
• originally governed by local emperors who ruled
  using Confucian principles
• French arrived in 1600s
• many Vietnamese were converted to Catholicism
• weak trade link allowed Indochinese to maintain
  independence
• French colonized region in the 1860s in-order to
  control rubber, coal, and rice

Indochina

• The Philippines
• discovered by Magellan in 1521
• Spanish soldiers established a colony at Manila
  in 1565 (excellent harbor a vital link in
  Asia-American trade
• local datus persuaded to swear loyalty to Spain
• introduced new crops (maize and cocoa)

Siam
Bangkok
Philippines
Melaka

• Dutch Indonesia
• competed with English traders for spice trade in
  1500s (forced English to leave in 1620)
• assisted ruler of Matram (on Java) defeat
  enemies in 1677
• gained control over most of Indonesia by
  late-1700s

• Portuguese Spice Trade
• sought to control spice trade
• seized Melaka in 1511
• built trading posts throughout SE Asia
• tried to spread Catholicism