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Khmer
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place where Vietnamese took control of the Mekong delta
1800 - Khmer monarchy had virtually disappeared |
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Moluccas
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1511 - the Portuguese seized Malcha and soon occupied here
known as the Spice Islands to Europeans chief source of spices Portuguese set-up military/gave money to impose authority here had small colonies on the coast for trading posts |
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Dutch
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people who were better financed than the Portuguese
they occupied most of the Portuguese coast forts along the trade route throughout the Indian Ocean (Ceylon and Melaka - islands) drove the English out of the spice market tried to dominate the clove trade by limiting cultivation of the crop to one island and forced others to stop growing/trading the spice Java - established a fort at Datovia in 1619 to protect the Dutch possessions Mostly limited to the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago |
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Sumatra
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the last area left by the Dutch that was controlled by the English on the southern coast
west of Borneo, southeast of the Bay of Benegal, and north of Australia |
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Java
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island where the Dutch set-up a military fort at Batavia in 1619 to protect their possessions
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mainland states
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part of a continent as distinguished from the peninsula or offshore islands (example - Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, and the remnants of the old Angkor kingdom in Cambodia)
the Portuguese established a limited trade relation with them had strong monarchies that were able to keep the English out |
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Philippines
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northeast of Borneo, southeast of China, and west of the Pacific Ocean
place were religious changes took place |
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bureaucracy
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a body of non-elective government officials
Islamic sultans staffed their bureaucracy with mainly aristocrats |
