Tag: Trade Routes
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Understanding Data: A Window into History and Climate
Let us go back by a century, and imagine ourselves to be one of the crew onboard a ship sailing vast global seas. Surrounded by the blue ocean and open sky, part of your daily routine would be to jot down weather observations in a logbook – a notebook filled with careful notes about what…
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Maritime Trade in the Strait of Malacca and Sumatra
The Malay Archipelago has historically been a significant region for maritime trade and diasporic settlement. It encompasses a vast area of Southeast Asia, from the Philippines in the northeast, south to the Celebes Islands, Moluccas and New Guinea and west to Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia. This project focuses in on the region of the Strait…