Ep. 350 | The History of Singapore (Part 2)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

With the arrival of the Portuguese and their 1511 victory, the history of this region began to move in s new direction. The Portuguese and the Dutch rather ignored Singapore and focused their trade and colonizing efforts on the Melaka Coast and in Indonesia. The Johor Sultanate begins its early rise to prominence. The conflict between Britain and the Netherlands ends up having a major effect on the Malay Peninsula and led to the founding of Singapore in 1819 by Sir Stamford Raffles. We'll take a brief look at his bio and how he ended up having such a profound impact on the earliest years of Singapore's colonial history. The life of William Farquhar is also introduced and the brewing conflict he would have with Raffles. The story of how these two men, along with Lord Hastings, worked out an agreement with the two key figures of the time, Sultan Hussein Shah and the Temenggong Abdul Rahman will be introduced at the end of the episode. This episode has been available on Patreon since July. Please consider supporting me and get early access to everything: https://www.patreon.com/TheChinaHistoryPodcast My sixth book just came out on Earnshaw Books. This is one covers Chinese Sayings from the Zhou and Han Dynasty. Check it out here: https://earnshawbooks.com/product/chinese-sayings-book-1/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, Lusle Montgomery here.
0:03.0	Thanks for tuning in to the China History Podcast.
0:06.4	Singapore Part 2 this time.
0:09.0	Last episode, I sort of wandered all over the place.
0:12.1	So many names, kingdoms, rulers, legends, and whatnot.
0:16.2	The history of pre-15th century Singapore
0:19.6	isn't that well documented of a history,
0:21.8	but I hope you got a sense of this region and most of all
0:25.4	how all these watered lands had been linked by trade that went back to the discovery of the
0:30.6	monsoon winds so many millennia ago.
0:34.0	Singapore or Temasek was just a small part of a bigger story that saw the development of the major histories of modern day Indonesia and Malaysia.
0:46.0	Temasek or Singapore thrived during the 14th century,
0:51.0	but all came crashing down in or around 1398. Then, as we saw, the Singapore
0:58.4	ruler led his troops and followers up the Malay coast to present-day Malacca and thus began the
1:05.0	began the history of the Malacca sultanate.
1:07.0	And then we close things off last time with the age of exploration
1:11.0	or age of discovery, with the arrival of the Portuguese.
1:15.4	Keen to outflank the Venetian traders to get those Asian spices.
1:21.3	Then came the fateful voyage led by Alfonso to Albuquerque and 1511 after Albuquerque
1:28.2	soldiers had put an end of the Sultanate and forced the political center to shift to Joe Hoare and later on to Joe
1:35.0	Hoare and Riao located on the other side of the Malacca Strait. They did this by
1:39.9	blockading the port, bottling the inhabitants up without food or provisions of any kind.
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