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Trading Goods around the
Malay Peninsular.
Trade activities in southeast
Asia and the Malay Peninsular started during
pre-historic ages as early as the Neolithic
ages. Proven by objects such as cowries
found in the hinterland.
During the Metal Age, goods
for trading included metal axes, bells,
drums, bronze sockets and bowls, beads etc..
The emergence of several political powers
and small governments throughout the Malay
Peninsular increases the trade network.
Chronicles from
China, Arab Countries and
India together with other archeology
research show that other famous goods for
trading includes ceramics, cloth products
from the forest, spices, weapons, items made
from metal etc.
Melaka then emerged as an international
trade center, inheriting the great tradition of the Srivijaya Empire. Melaka trade spices such as pepper,
mace, clover, and other items such as tin, ivory, turtle
shell and silver with traders from China, India, Europe,
Middle East and other countries. This was traded with
weapons, perfumes, woven cloth, silk, sugar, sulphur,
sandal wood, ion, ore, ceramics, camphor etc..
The presence of colonial western powers
such as the Portuguese, Dutch and British in the
16 Century brought about western ceramics, modern armory
and other decorative items. The Malay Peninsular then
became actively producing raw
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material such as tin ore and rubber for
export especially to Europe.
The maritime
states along the shores of the straits
of Melaka possessed a host of natural
geographical and nautical advantage to
facilitate the coming of traders from
east and west to Malay Archipelago, this
included:
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The position
of the straits of Malacca as a water
highway between east and west.
Its
suitability as a place for collection,
channeling and exchanging of goods by a
entreport system. There was the
alternate system of monsoon winds which
determined the course and direction of
sailing ships.
The
facilities, environmental and man made,
which were provided in this entrepot
ports by the traditional Malay kingdom
of that area.
The emergence of Melaka as an emporium
and a center of international trade in the fifteenth
and sixteenth centuries in the region must be seen in
the context of the type of residents and from the
perspective of commercial activity.
We are already aware that Melaka
inherited the historical traditions and represented a
continuity of the Sri Vijaya kingdom situated on the
shores of the Straits of Melaka in the centuries
preceding the year 1400. Therefore, the historical
experience connected with maritime activities was
nothing new to the indigenous population.
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China succeeded in decorating whitish
local clay with blue cobalt oxide under a clear
glaze,overcoming technical difficulties related to the
color and the glaze. The date of this major breakthrough
in ceramic history could have been around A.D. 1300.
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produced most of the exports
for southeast Asian markets.
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Kuala Lumpur Marine Archeological Museum, treasure,
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