SPECIAL - The History of Thailand

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

History

4.8 • 971 Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The complete journey from the beginnings of human occupation right through to the aftermath of the death of King Rama IX, and everything in between. We explore the reasons why Thailand has such a unique identity but also how it is a nation of divided opinions.

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0:00.0	The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.
0:20.0	This is a special episode of the History of the World Podcast on the History of Thailand. Oh, you know, it's all.
0:33.0	Oh, you know.
0:35.0	Oh, you know.
0:37.0	Oh, you know.
0:38.0	Oh, you know. The country of Thailand can be found on mainland Southeast Asia, an area of the world that has also been called Indochina.
1:00.0	In terms of the Indochina Peninsula, Thailand is very central.
1:05.0	It is bordered by Myanmar to the west and by Laos and Cambodia to the east.
1:12.0	The country extends southwards into the Malay Peninsula
1:17.0	where it meets its border with Malaysia. Evidently early humans discovered this part of the world as proven by the
1:26.7	uncovering of the Pleistocene period bone fossils. These are believed to be closely related to Homo erectus and date between half a
1:37.6	million and a million years old. There is also evidence of stone tools dating to the upper Paleolithic which are likely to have belonged to modern humans.
1:49.0	20th century excavations at a site called Bang Chiang in the northeast of the country
1:56.4	demonstrate that pottery was in use during the Neolithic period around 5,000 years ago.
2:08.0	What's more is the fact that this pottery contains evidence of rice cultivation.
2:15.0	Bronze production was also taking place during this period so the lands of Thailand showed some fundamental Neolithic Revolution developments. Our knowledge of the
2:20.8	earliest societies of Thailand have to be constructed from archaeology, coupled with later literary works from various societies and nation states. Wet rice cultivation could have been brought to the region by the Mon people
2:38.0	who historians believed to have migrated southwards from the Yancey River valleys of China between 4,000 and 5,000 years ago.
2:48.6	The Mon people speak an Austro-Asiatic language, so it is related to the national languages of the modern countries of Vietnam and Cambodia, who speak Vietnamese and Khmer respectively.
3:05.0	By the first millennium, the societies of Southeast Asia would have been exposed
3:10.0	to the influence of the powerful societies that were emerging in China and India,
3:15.4	and this was likely to be in the form of trade agreements and cultural influence.
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