Status Updates From Southeast Asia in the Age o...

This was surprisingly so much more readable than i could have feared it to be

Its interesting that in 16th c and 19th c the reading capability decline, it indicated that older generation have better reading capability.

OMG, most of southeast asia can read and write

Theatre state is so true, from sabung ayam to dancing to shadow puppet

Women become merchant in traditional market at rat 30-50%, in contrast with middle east with only 1-5%

pre modern southeast asia, women has higher autonomy

Early marriage is another tradition

Interesting, prostitution begin massively in 16th century

This is super interesting, divorce is south east asia tradition. Islam accomodate this

South east asia is not expert a warfare, compare to europe

This is very comprehensive writing, I can not believe that somebody has a stamina to write in this amount.

Interesting that there is no evidence of iron mining in Java during keris making, iron is from Borneo or Sulawesi

This is good, super interesting, but a bit boring

Interesting, Syphilis in Iskandar Muda and King Brawijaya / Majapahit

I never realized that south east asia lack of pastoral culture, there are too many jungle here.

West Java farmer move from nutmeg to sugar cane in 1630, where its exported to Japan / China

I start to realized that many things that I did not, Reid mention that labor is needed more than the land.

Vietnam is most important country because its role as buffer of chinese

Vietnam is most important in south east asia

The land below the winds is India/Arab term, South sea (Nanyang) is Chinese term

Difficult to assess something without reading previous work like Reid's. I never realize that there is no savanna in Indonesia, therefore there is no significant animal protein, except fish