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Who the fuck are these people?
Why do they live here?
Where did they come from?
Why do they write weird?
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It's an archipellago whose population remained isolated from the rest of the world until the Europeans came in. Nothing special.
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>>456132
why is it independent tho?
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>>459053
because it isn't a colony.
it's not a colony because they said "fuck off we're free" in the 40s/50s when the british dismantled their empire after WW2.
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They descend from Indians who left the sub-continent some millennia ago, not exactly a huge mystery
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>>456132
Weren't they in contact with muslim traders?
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why do you even care?
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>>459357
Yeah who cares about history anyways? What is this some kind of history board?
Inb4
>I care about history just not Maldives history
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>>459318
>Weren't they in contact with muslim traders?
yes, I think I remember reading Ibn Battuta getting butthurt because they were muslims but the women walked around topless
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>>459573
Nobody. Nobody cares about Maldives.
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>>455993
They were a Somali colony in the AGE OF AJURAAN. When the Gold ran out they left.
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