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    Posted: 07-Jun-2007 at 17:39
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  Quote Sarmat Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Jun-2007 at 20:10
Originally posted by TranHungDao

Sarmat12,

Quite off topic but...  Did you know you and I joined AE on the same day?  Clap

However, you've got more posts than I.  Cry
 
Cool !  Clap 
 
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  Quote pekau Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Jun-2007 at 20:16
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  Quote Sander Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 11-Jun-2007 at 12:24
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim

Ermh Confused

The mongol army landed in Java and defeated the Javanese army. The mongols had the king replaced with one who was expected to me far more servile to the mongols. The Javanese nobility subsequently invited all the mongol leaders to a banquet, it was trickery and the mongol leaders were masacared*.


*I wonder if this gave inspiration to "the night of long knifes"?
 
I read a similar story once but it seems a folk legend from popular internetsites. The Chinese histories mention the dates , events and tell how Shih pi, the general was punished in China for the failed expedition.
 
After the Javanese usurper was defeated by Mongols and Javanese, the last events are usually summerized as below:

"Raden Vijaya asked permission from the Chinese to return to Majapahit with a Chinese escort to seek the tribute promised to the Great Khan. In reality he was seeking to get rid of his allies , who were no longer useful after the defeat of his adversery. He began, on May 26, 1293, by massacring his escort ; then, with his Javanese, he turned against the Chinese established at Kediri and forced them to get back on their ships. On May 31 they sailed for China ,where they arrived on August 8. "
 
(Coedes, G. The Indianized states of South East Asia , p. 201 )


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  Quote Brainsucker Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 18-Apr-2009 at 08:42
Well, one for sure, that it is not Vijaya, but Wijaya. The pronouce almost the same as Win without n.
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Originally posted by pekau

Indonesia was rich? Sorry, I need to keep up with Southeasern  Asian history...  but compared to the splendor of  Persia and China? Not so sure about that...

Be sure! In it's heyday, Java Brunei and Borneo, comparatively speaking, were extremely rich. Google Brunei.
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  Quote amature historian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Jul-2017 at 19:58

Indonesia was a lot richer than Hungary and Russia, yet the Mongols invaded both those places, and Indonesia was fairly prosperous at the time.  

Sea invasions are tought, especially for places far out at sea like Indonesia and Japan. Neither Napoleon nor Hittler were able to successfully cross the 20 miles of the English Channel to invade England, and they had better technology.  Indonesia was a lot further out in the ocean.   And the nature of a sea invasion negates a lot of the Mongol's greatest strenghts.   It is difficult to transport horses by sea, and so the number of horses the Mongols could bring would have been limited, thus reducing the Mongols greatest asset, their mobility.  So it is not surprising that the Mongols failed in both Indonesia and Japan.

In general, the Mongols did not do well where they could not use their horses and mobility to their best advantage.  The Mongols did not conquer India, depite the riches to be found their, nor did they conquer Vietnam.  Altnough they killed a lot of people in Hungary, after a year's time they still hadn't completely subdued it, and they didn't even attempt to invade the far richer lands of Austria and Germany, although they had a year to do so.   The flat plains of Hungary were better suited to Mongol warfare than the more forested and hilly lands of Austria, which was probably a factor.


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  Quote ipwinner Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 09-May-2018 at 23:45
"Mongols' expedition to Indonesia "? I wasn't aware about that, but after some studying, I understand that you are talking about the Yuan Army's activities on Java. Nice point of view... :-)
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