Ep. 349 | The History of Singapore (Part 1)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Requests to present the history of Singapore go back to 2010 or 2011. At long last, here's an easy-to-consume and digest overview of The Lion City. In Part 1 we'll look at the watered world of Southeast Asia and the Monsoon Winds that led to the earliest intra-Asian sea trade. And of course, the legendary 14th century founding of Singapore will be told. Sri Vijaya, Sang Nila Utama, Temasek, and the five kings of Singapura. The visit of Yuan Dynasty explorer Wang Dayuan will also be introduced as well as his early observations. We'll get as far as the fall of Singapura and the founding of the Sultanates of Melaka and later Johor. When the early 16th century dawns, the arrival of the Portuguese will put the trajectory of Singapore and Malaysian history in a new direction. We'll pick up next time and see how the arrival of the Dutch and British East India Companies start shaking things up in Southeast Asia. Although a lot of what's covered in Part 1 is only legend, one can easily see the history of this small island at the tip of the Malaysian Peninsula goes back far beyond the arrival of Sir Stamford Raffles. Patreon supporters are already on Part 6 of this series, not scheduled for release until November 24. Subscribe to my Patreon and earn my ever-lasting gratitude. And enjoy being the first ones to hear the latest episodes (and bonus material too). https://www.patreon.com/TeacupMedia Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good day all CHP listeners around the world.
0:02.8	Las Lohlle Montgomery here with the launch of the next great thing here at the China History
0:07.3	Podcast.
0:08.3	So I'm happy to say there were no shortages of fine monographs, academic papers, videos, and documents to work with.
0:16.3	This is a pretty well documented history. But like it often is, with world history,
0:22.1	the farther back you go the fogier and more speculative things are
0:28.0	and there's no way to tell Singapore's story without mentioning Malaysia and the Malay people.
0:33.0	So, for some of you who can't find eastern or western Malaysia on a map,
0:38.0	you'll get a little bit of Malay history at no extra cost.
0:41.0	At 720 square kilometers, Singapore is about the size of Bahrain, a bit smaller.
0:49.6	There's about 5.5 million people living in Singapore. As for Bahrain, they got about a million and a half.
0:56.9	It sits right on the Sunda tectonic plate where most of Southeast Asia lies. This included the South China Sea, Andaman Sea, Southern Vietnam,
1:07.0	Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, and most of Indonesia.
1:14.4	The Sunda played was a minor one,
1:16.3	and thanks to the continental drift,
1:18.4	before the land settled into what it is in our day,
1:22.3	it got pushed around plenty by the surrounding Eurasian,
1:25.8	Indo-Australian, and Pacific plates. When everything settled down on the Earth's mantle to where it is today.
1:33.4	Well, if it hadn't been for Singapore's famous location at the southern tip of the
1:38.9	Malaysian Peninsula, where the 500 mile long Date of Malacca joins the South China Sea and its shelter
1:47.0	deepwater port 1.29 degrees north of the equator. If not for all of that,
1:53.8	Singapore may not have ever amounted to much.
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