Vol 4 Ep 81 - Champa

History of the World podcast

Chris Hasler

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🗓️ 7 October 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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192 - 1471 - This is the story of the resiliant polity of Champa whose story feels like a story of constant warfare, but interspersed with great piety and temple construction. How did this tribal confederation survive these brutal medieval centuries?

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0:00.0	Today we journey to Southern Vietnam to discover a plucky little polity called
0:06.4	Champer. Essentially it was a coalition of tribal groups which enjoyed an important place along the maritime
0:16.4	silk road trade route and with its own maritime abilities managed to survive for many centuries while being surrounded by powerful neighbors.
0:26.4	Despite experiencing a number of invasions, Champir, could on occasion be capable of giving as good as it got.
0:36.0	So today's story will focus on how Champa was able to stand up for itself on a number of occasions. The rulers of Champa, much like those of Kameh,
0:47.0	gave great time and energy to the construction of temples in the name of Hinduism and Buddhism due to the extensive
0:55.3	Indianization of the Southeast Asian Peninsula during ancient times.
1:00.3	So let's learn more about the Chan peoples of the medieval era and their
1:06.7	powerful state in Southeast Asia. The History of the World Podcast, and Presented by Chris Hasler
1:37.0	Volume 4, The Medieval World Episode 81, Champa. Ah. During the most recent podcast episodes of this series we have mentioned the
2:09.5	cham people and they are identifiable by their language called the
2:14.8	cham language and this language is one of the wider chamic languages which are a
2:21.5	set of Austronesian languages that appeared to have first migrated to mainland
2:27.7	Southeast Asia around 3,000 years ago.
2:31.9	Also, it is suggested.
2:34.0	It is a bit sketchy because of the diversity of languages that existed
2:40.0	in mainland Southeast Asia.
2:42.0	We have already encamped in mainland Southeast Asia.
3:00.0	We have already encountered other mainland Southeast Asian languages such as Mon, Vietnamese and Kame languages, which are Austroasiatic languages, distinct from Austronesian languages.
3:07.3	Austronesian languages are believed to have migrated across the waters from southern China and we will investigate this fascinating migration in the next episode.
3:16.7	The Austroasiatic languages in contrast migrated southwards across the land to mainland Southeast Asia. The Chamic language speakers, a branch of Austronesian, are thought to have
3:27.9	migrated to mainland Southeast Asia from the island of Borneo around 3,000 years ago.
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