Singapore
Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography & More
Gary Arndt
4.7 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Located at the mouth of the Strait of Malacca, one of the most strategically important points on earth is the nation of Singapore. |
| 0:06.0 | Singapore is unlike most other countries in the world for a host of reasons, including how it was created and the fact that it's one of the few remaining city states. |
| 0:14.8 | Since its founding as an independent country, |
| 0:16.9 | they have experienced one of the greatest economic success stories in history |
| 0:20.5 | and a host of problems that are unique to the country. |
| 0:23.0 | Learn more about Singapore and its unique history on this episode of |
| 0:26.9 | Everything Everywhere Daily. The history of Singapore goes back at least 2,000 years. |
| 0:47.0 | There are references in third century Chinese text to a place called Pulu Chung, an island at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula. |
| 0:54.2 | There might even have been a reference to Singapore in an ancient Greek text. |
| 0:58.8 | The astronomer Ptolemy referenced an island known as Sabana, which sat at the of the Golden Chursonese, which is believed to be a reference to the Malay Peninsula. |
| 1:07.0 | The island was known as Timasek in the local Japanese language, which means Sea Town. |
| 1:12.0 | It was controlled by the Shrivage Empire. Japanese language, which means Sea Town. |
| 1:12.9 | It was controlled by the Shrivage Empire for centuries, with a brief period of control |
| 1:16.6 | by the Chola Empire from southern India around a thousand years ago. |
| 1:20.9 | According to legend, a prince from Palembang in modern day Sumatra Indonesia landed on the island on a hunting trip and he saw a creature that he thought was a lion. |
| 1:28.5 | He thought it auspicious so he founded a settlement on the island known as Singapore. |
| 1:33.4 | Singapore means Lion City in Sanskrit. |
| 1:36.5 | Given its strategic location on the Strait of Malacca by the 13th century |
| 1:40.7 | Singapore had become an important port and trading city. |
| 1:44.6 | Singapore is believed to be the first major Chinese settlement outside of China. |
| 1:49.5 | After the fall of the Shrivagee Empire, Singapore was fought over by various successor states in the region, |
| 1:54.6 | and by the 15th century, when the Portuguese finally arrived, the settlement was already mostly in ruins. |
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