Southeast asian empire

>>2217623
*expect lol

About as relevant as the replies to this post.

>>2217623
>get btfo by chinks
>get btfo by pooloos
>become muslim

Well, they're how the Dutch briefly became a superpower.

Other than that, not particularly relevant.

>>2217623
So you were Hindu, then Muslim, then dutch. Now you are my countries shield against China.

>>2220444
Dutch were never a super power

>>2220460
Well, they were a world power for all of about ten seconds.

It's arguable whether there were real superpowers before post-1814 Britain.

>>2217623
As a trading empire, it's actually quite important.

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>>2220726

The only thing of note, is that they found oil, which the Japanese promptly took.

>>2217623

Not at all frankly.

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The trade in spices was extremely important, but the civilizations themselves didn't really matter much to the rest of the world. It's sort of like those West African kangdoms that had lots of gold but didn't matter otherwise. I do like Southeast Asian history, but they just weren't really that important. No major intellectual, religious, cultural or technological innovations emerged there that spread to other regions of the globe. I don't mean that they didn't have great technology, culture, etc, but what they did develop there didn't become very important on a wider scale outside of Southeast Asia.