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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