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kingdom of magic potty
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this so we're gonna start out with the
first one which is called an empire of
water
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a canoe pushes up on the sand and men
step onto the shore these are the
austronesians the greatest mariners in
history they and their ancestors the
Polynesians will make the Pacific their
domain using the Stars and wind to
settle nearly every speck of land from
the Philippines to Hawaii but this land
is special wracked by volcanic eruptions
and at the crux of vital trade winds
it's a place to founded Empire this is
the island of Java a couple quick things
up top please give a warm extra history
welcome to Ali who's doing art for this
series thanks Ali and second as we
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and now back to the show at first glance
the kingdom of Maha pocket doesn't seem
like one of the great empires of history
where other Southeast Asian kingdoms
endured for centuries mascha pockets
Golden Age only lasted a hundred years
from roughly 1293 to 1389 while other
kings left great temples and palaces
maha pocket left only the modest ruins
of its capital its scribes left few
written records but do you know who
hasn't forgotten majapahit Indonesia in
fact mascha pocket was so successful
even right after its fall the Muslim
states that conquered and replaced it
tried to claim lineage from this Hindu
Buddhist kingdom and many in modern
Indonesia look back on it as the
historical example of why their country
exists because maha pocket did something
that no other native government did
until the 20th century it brought the
Indonesian archipelago under
rule and that was no mean feat because
Indonesia has over 13,000 islands many
with unique cultures and languages its
largest sumatra is the size of spain and
the smallest or barely rocks sticking
out of the ocean the distance the
archipelago stretches is immense from
northern Sumatra to eastern Papua New
Guinea is the same distance as between
London and Istanbul yet masha pas had
United them though what form that unity
took is still debated what isn't in
dispute though is that they changed what
would become Indonesia the world's
fourth most populous nation in ways that
are still apparent today so how did they
do it will the keys to mashup ahead
success actually lay in two kingdoms
that preceded it the kingdom of
srivijaya and the kingdom of mataram and
both of these kingdoms won power by
control of the water first we'll visit
sir eb jaya a kingdom that was crucial
to the development of the region but a
kingdom that was also forgotten until
about a century ago in the early 20th
century academics pieced together stone
inscriptions and Chinese written
accounts to discover that a thriving
maritime kingdom existed in Sumatra from
the 7th to the 14th centuries shrevie
giant rulers were lords of water
governing a coastal kingdom that
controlled the trade routes through the
Strait of Malacca they launched fleets
of merchant vessels that brought
products of Indonesia gold camphor resin
rice aromatic sandalwood and spice from
the eastern islands to the markets of
China and India it's because of Shri
Vijaya that the Indonesian archipelago
became the famous Spice Islands
Europeans whispered about a land of
untold riches and exotic Goods in the
days before refrigeration anything that
could preserve meat or at least make it
palatable when it was spoiled was worth
its weight in gold and these islands
held the world's only source of that
most rare and mysterious spice a thing
with medicinal even hallucinogenic
properties a single nut that has caused
more spilling of blood than any other
spice in history nutmeg people would
kill for nutmeg in the later colonial
period the Dutch will torture murder and
enslave to acquire it and sir EB Jaya
controlled all access to it but trade
had long been a part of life in the
archipelago 2500 years before srivijaya
was even founded sailors were plying the
waters around the island following the
trade winds that run south or north
depending on the season taking products
to mainland Asia and bringing back
influences such as Hinduism and Buddhism
actually by the time shrevie Jaya was
kicking around it wasn't unusual for
Indonesian Kings to have an Indian
Brahmin or two as advisors or a group of
Buddhist monks wandering their Kingdom
rather than running in competition these
religions fused with Buddha joining the
Hindu Pantheon to create what's known as
Hindu Buddhism but unlike earlier
trading states surimi Jaya had
coordinated merchant fleets they would
go north stay for a season absorbing
foreign influences then returned with
cargoes of precious objects and
travellers on commercial or religious
missions as a result Sri BJ's coastal
settlements became diverse cosmopolitan
places with communities of Chinese
Malays indigenous tribes and others from
Southeast Asia but Sri be Gia's real
innovation was how it whipped the
pirates and sea nomads along its coast
into a Merchant Navy that locked down
the sea lanes controlling the spice
trade surimi Jaya didn't directly rule
the spice producing islands in the East
in fact it didn't even care who governed
the interior of its home island of
Sumatra as far as we can tell they
didn't even produce their own food they
extracted rice tributes from other
islands that needed access to the Strait
of Malacca because spice and spice
trading was that important the spice
expanded tastiness the spice was vital
for preserving meat the spice must flow
so surimi jaya controlled the Spice
Islands by becoming lords of water but
southeast of Sumatra on the neighboring
island of Java was the kingdom of
mataram and they too were Lords of water
fresh water
teram served as CeraVe Jaya's upland a
lie though whether they were full
partners or vassals is undetermined and
probably varied at times they fought
while the rulers of mataram controlled
the ports on Java their power center lay
in the terraced rice fields on the
volcanic slopes in fact one of the
kingdom's most prominent dynasties
literally ruled under the name Lord of
the mountain where srivijaya was dynamic
and open to outside influences Matara
was conservative and traditionalist
changing slowly and deliberately its
strengths lay in agriculture and
controlling the irrigation systems that
fed its enormous rice terraces centuries
before the Javanese had started using
wet rice cultivation to boost their
agricultural productivity while the
island's sacred volcanoes sometimes made
life hazardous they also gave Java some
of the most fertile soil in the Pacific
meaning the kingdom of mataram could
produce huge quantities of rice to
support a large population and export
via trade but rice terraces require
irrigation which is how the first
Javanese government started village
leaders would control the irrigation
systems with their power radiating out
to wherever the water went gradually
these irrigation systems solidified into
small kingdoms which eventually
coalesced under the kings of Matara
lords of the mountain and managers of
rice fields whilst 3be jaya controlled
the shipping lanes Matara had something
just as crucial a large work force that
it used to plant harvest and maintain
the irrigation networks and they could
mobilize that manpower for other
projects like conquest or temple
construction the first temples on Java
appeared in the seventh century on the
upland plateaus with local kingdoms
erecting beautiful if modest Hindu
temples in the Indian style but the
kings of mataram had something much
grander in mind something that would
eclipse these little Hindu structures
for unusually the most prominent Mataram
dynasty was Buddhist and they wanted to
build a monument that would endure
forever it took generations but they did
it
Borobudur or remains to this day the
largest Buddhist structure on the planet
so big it looks like a Stone Mountain
this hulking monument is actually a
series of platforms a mandala in stone
where each level features bow relief
carvings on increasingly sacred topics
pilgrims would travel upward walking
around the outside of each level while
meditating on the 2600 carved panels
seeing tales of their ordinary world
stories of Buddhist saints previous
incarnations of the Buddha seems from
Buddha's life and finally a summit of
bell-shaped stupas representing the
celestial realm srivijaya couldn't build
anything like Bora baddoor though in
fairness Mataura might not have really
been able to do it either because it may
have cost them their kingdom soon after
its completion this Buddhist dynasty
abandoned their lands perhaps due to
revolts over the burden of temple
construction perhaps due to an eruption
of their sacred mountain perhaps both
but the dynasty set a new bar for what a
central Javanese Kingdom could do and
while their successor dynasty moved the
capital to the east one of their first
actions was to one-up their buddhist
predecessors by building a similarly
grand hindu monument the temple of
prambanan the stage was set whatever
kingdom could fuse these two elements
the maritime trading empire of Sri
Vijaya with the raw inland power of
mataram would become the Lords of the
archipelago an empire of water that
kingdom was majah Pyatt
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my house 1 is really really interesting
nowadays oil is what basically runs the
world and back then it was the spices
and nutmeg I guess Indonesia had quite a
bit so they had power basically through
the pathway towards China India as well
as Europe which is really really
interesting to see because it's nice
that we learn about the history in the
past because there were people here in
on earth before sometimes Hana we kind
of get into our daily life so much that
we just think that we are here we were
the only ones but there have been
billions and billions of people before
us so it's nice to understand and then
see what their story was what did they
do and we kind of could learn from
history
we had seen a lot of the monument and
some of the other reaction videos was
nice to see now how are they created why
were they created who created them and
what is basically the story behind them
so they touched on two of them and
there's a couple of more I think five or
four more episodes on Xolo next couple
of days I'll be covering that so
hopefully we can cover some more of
these monuments that we have reacted to
I'd really really liked that I enjoyed
it that they actually made a little bit
of fun and also they animated it so if
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