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    European colonisation of Southeast Asia

    The first phase of European colonization of Southeast Asia took place throughout the 16th and 17th centuries. Where new European powers competing to gain monopoly over the spice trade, as this trade was very valuable to the Europeans due to high demand for various spices such as pepper, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. This demand led to the arrival of Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, and British marine spice traders. Fiercely competitive, the Europeans soon sought to eliminate each other by forcibly taking control of the production centres, trade hubs and vital strategic locations, beginning with the Portuguese acquisition of Malacca in 1511. Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, conquests focused on ports along the maritime routes, that provided a secure passage of maritime trade. It also allowed foreign rulers to levy taxes and control prices of the highly desired Southeast Asian commodities. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    History of Southeast Asia - Colonial Patterns, Trade, Culture: In the last half of the 18th century, all the major states of Southeast Asia were faced with crisis. The great political and social structures of the classical states had begun to decay, and, although the reasons for this disintegration are not altogether clear, the expanded size of the states, the greater complexity of their ...
    Author:William H. Frederick
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  4. manoa.hawaii.edu

    Legacies The end of the Second World War marks a milestone in the history of Southeast Asian, although some European powers were reluctant to accept the idea that former colonies should now govern themselves.
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    British colonies in South Asia, East Asia, And Southeast Asia: British Burma (1824-1948, merged with India by the British from 1886 to 1937) British Ceylon (1833-1948, now Sri Lanka) British Hong Kong (1842-1997) Colonial India (includes the territory of present-day India, Pakistan and Bangladesh) Danish India (1696-1869)
  6. realclearhistory.com

    The French experience in Vietnam was short lived; the American one even shorter. In most ways the European imperialists simply grafted their colonies onto existing power structures in Southeast Asia and hoped for the best. The French in Indochina. like the British in Burma or the Dutch in Java, stumbled into their roles as colonial powers in Southeast Asia, in large part as a result of the ...
  7. britannica.com

    History of Southeast Asia - Colonization, Decolonization, Conflict: The swift conclusion of the war in the Pacific made it impossible for the former colonial masters to return to Southeast Asia for several weeks, in some areas for months. During the interim, the Japanese were obliged by the Allies to keep the peace, but real power passed into the hands of Southeast Asian leaders, some of whom ...
  8. science.jrank.org

    Simply put, the shape of colonialism in Southeast Asia was in large part determined by the nature of precolonial regional dynamics and the ability of the local communities to interact and respond to the differing policies, attractions, and challenges of colonial governance.
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