Contact and Interaction in Ancient Southeast Asia

The following was the reason why it was difficult to conduct overland trade in Southeast Asia, EXCEPT ....

• There are many mountains in Southeast Asian region

• There were many islands in Southeast Asia

• Many parts of Southeast Asia region were covered with dense tropical rainforest

• Southeast Asia was famous for its spices, such as nutmeg, cinnamon and clove

These are the reasons why many foreign traders found Southeast Asian convenient resting point for them, EXCEPT ....

• Southeast Asia is located between two advance civilisations, India and China

• Southeast Asian rulers tried to make their ports safe for foreign traders

• Rulers of Southeast Asian assigned special officials to help looking after the need of the traders

• It's very difficult to conduct overland trade in Southeast Asia

The most valued spices were ... and mace, which grew only on the ... Islands in present-day Indonesia

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The ... Routes was the name given to the network of sea routes linking Asia and Europe.

(a)  

The port cities such as ... and Melaka grew along the Spice Routes.

(a)  

Melaka king, ... set up safe and good ports to attract traders to his kingdom.

(a)  

The king of Melaka also appointed a special official to take care of the needs of foreign traders, which was called (a)  

The process of how the influence of Indian system of government, religious and cultural ideas spread to Southeast Asia is called (a)  

The Southeast Asian people learnt how to build large ships called ... from the Chinese people.

(a)  

Describe the benefit that the Southeast Asian rulers get from participating in China's tribute system. (2 m)