Geog597.01:Southeast Asia Outline

Southeast Asia
General Urban Characteristics:

Historical Influences .Before 100 B.C.E., no true urban centers -After 100 B.C.E., first cities developed. -Most of this city development was a result of outside influences: .Indian influence 1. Coastal market city -example: Vyadhapura (100 C.E.), located in the Mekong delta 2. Inland sacred city -example: Angkor (800s C.E.), located in present-day Cambodia Muslim Influence -Malacca (1403) Key word: "entrepot" European Influence -Portuguese -Spanish -Dutch Batavia (present-day Jakarta) -British Straits Settlements -Pinang -Malacca -Singapore Expansion to Burma (Myanmar) Expansion to Northern Borneo -Sarawak -Sabah -French French Indo-China -Americans

-Siam (Thailand) remained uncolonized Key word: "buffer state"

Independence came after World War II Further political changes: -Singapore -Vietnam -Colonial Impact: -superimposed boundaries -coastal growth, interior decline -rural to urban migration -foreign immigration -population increase

-Chinese in Southeast Asia

-Deurbanization (1970s) -Vietnam -Cambadia