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    The document summarizes the colonial presence and activities of various European powers in Southeast Asia between the 15th-20th centuries. It describes how the Portuguese first established outposts in Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1500s. It then outlines the Dutch colonization of Indonesia and Malaysia in the 1600s-1800s through the Dutch East India Company. Finally, it discusses the British expansion across Malaysia and Burma in the 1800s-1900s, and the French occupation of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam starting in the 1860s. Thailand was unique in remaining independent between the British and French spheres of influence.

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    The document summarizes the colonial presence and activities of various European powers in Southeast Asia between the 15th-20th centuries. It describes how the Portuguese first established outposts in Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1500s. It then outlines the Dutch colonization of Indonesia and Malaysia in the 1600s-1800s through the Dutch East India Company. Finally, it discusses the British expansion across Malaysia and Burma in the 1800s-1900s, and the French occupation of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam starting in the 1860s. Thailand was unique in remaining independent between the British and French spheres of influence.

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    The document summarizes the colonial presence and activities of various European powers in Southeast Asia between the 15th-20th centuries. It describes how the Portuguese first established outposts in Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1500s. It then outlines the Dutch colonization of Indonesia and Malaysia in the 1600s-1800s through the Dutch East India Company. Finally, it discusses the British expansion across Malaysia and Burma in the 1800s-1900s, and the French occupation of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam starting in the 1860s. Thailand was unique in remaining independent between the British and French spheres of influence.

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    Colonialism and Imperialism

    in Southeast Asia
    1
    Portuguese in Southeast Asia
    - First to discover Southeast Asia
    - Interested in port areas
    - Occupied Malacca – 1511
    - Occupied Spice Islands – 1512
    - Reached East Timor – 1520
    - Became under Spain’s dominance
    - Lost Netherlands and Great Britain
    Dutch in Southeast Asia
    - 1602 – Established VOC or Dutch
    East India Company – protect the
    trading interest
    - Governor General Jan Pieterszoon
    Coen – director of VOC – established
    Batavia City
    - Dutch developed Batavia – as a
    European model
    - Chinese – played on the fields of
    taxation and agriculture
    - Occupied Spice Islands and Java
    Dutch in Southeast Asia
    - Java – source of teak
    - Weakened because of external and
    internal challenges
    - 1799 – company was abolished
    - Netherlands directly governed Java
    and Indonesia
    British in Southeast Asia
    - Competed with Netherlands
    - British East India Company extended to
    Penang Island, Malaysia
    - Occupied Malacca – 1795
    - Singapore – became a colony of Great
    Britain – by Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles
    - Attracted Chinese and other foreigners to
    settle in Singapore
    - Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 – Malay
    Peninsula divided into British and Dutch
    Zones
    British in Southeast Asia
    - Four tributaries of Siam – Perlism,
    Kelantan, Edah, Terengganu – added to
    Malayan colony – 1909
    - Borneo was taken also from Dutch – by
    James Brooke
    - Brunei – became a protectorate of Great
    Britain
    - Interest with Burma (part of regulations
    with India)
    - First Anglo-Burmese War – longest and
    most costly war
    British in Southeast Asia
    - Second Anglo- Burmese War –
    Commodore Lambert challenged
    Burmese people in a naval battle
    - Burmese monarchy collapsed
    - Burma became a colony
    French in Southeast Asia
    - Occupied Indochina
    - Cambodia became a protectorate of
    France – 1863
    - King of Cambodia & Laos remained in
    power
    - France dictated who would sit on the
    throne
    Spaniards in Southeast Asia
    - Reached Philippines by Magellan’s
    expedition – 1521
    - 1565 – Colonialism started or led by
    Legazpi
    - Legazpi had blood compact with Sikatuna
    (Bohol) and Tupas (Cebu)
    - First settlement – Cebu
    - Abusive practices of officials and Church
    Americans in Philippines
    - Spain and US – entered an agreement –
    Treaty of Paris – 1898 – $20M
    - Mock battle – 1898
    - Filipino American War – 1899-1913
    - President William McKinley is the US
    President of this period
    - Manifest destiny
    Thailand as a Free Country

    - Only Siam remain free


    - Middle between British forces in Burma
    and French Indochina
    - Served as a buffer state
    - Chulalongkorn and Mongkut able to
    convince British and French not to
    occupy the country

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