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Topic: Mongol invasion to Indonesia Posted: 06-Jun-2007 at 01:46 |
Originally posted by TranHungDao
Java did a lot of trade with China. Javanese merchant ships frequented Hong Kong. Heck, why trade with the Javanese when you can just take it from them! |
I doubt if Hong Kong was so important at that time. Perhaps, it just was a small fisherman village before British took it in XIX century.
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Posted: 06-Jun-2007 at 01:30 |
Java did a lot of trade with China. Javanese merchant ships
frequented Hong Kong. Heck, why trade with the Javanese when you
can just take it from them!
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Posted: 05-Jun-2007 at 21:55 |
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... |
Yeah, it indeed was rich, for example:
in the 10th century one Circa 903, Muslim writer Ibn Rustah was so impressed with the wealth of Srivijaya's (Srivijaya the strongest kingdom of Indonesia at that time) ruler that he declared one would not hear of a king who was richer, stronger or with more revenue.
Edited by Sarmat12 - 05-Jun-2007 at 23:11
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Posted: 05-Jun-2007 at 21:38 |
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...
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Posted: 05-Jun-2007 at 14:31 |
Originally posted by pekau
Depends... are we talking about Indonesia in terms of modern Indonesia that we know today? If so, it will be tough invasion. Climate is not ideal for Mongolian horses, it's brutally hot compared to Mongol, and Mongolian calvary charge and fast mobility is meaningless in jungles and rainforests. Transportation, communication, supply lines would be stretched and divided by water that would fatally weaken the Mongolians.
Heck, why would Mongolians go for Indonesia in the first place? Nothing valuable's in there. They might as well go for China or Persian wealth.
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Well, Mogols actually invaded Indonesia and it was a very rich country (right in the middle of the trade route between India and China).
But your thoughts about the unfriendly climate sound reasonable anyway.
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Posted: 05-Jun-2007 at 12:57 |
Depends... are we talking about Indonesia in terms of modern Indonesia that we know today? If so, it will be tough invasion. Climate is not ideal for Mongolian horses, it's brutally hot compared to Mongol, and Mongolian calvary charge and fast mobility is meaningless in jungles and rainforests. Transportation, communication, supply lines would be stretched and divided by water that would fatally weaken the Mongolians.
Heck, why would Mongolians go for Indonesia in the first place? Nothing valuable's in there. They might as well go for China or Persian wealth.
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Posted: 04-Jun-2007 at 17:24 |
Originally posted by TranHungDao
You know what they say: A typhoon a day, keeps the Mongols away! |
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Posted: 04-Jun-2007 at 16:54 |
You know what they say: A typhoon a day, keeps the Mongols away!
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Posted: 04-Jun-2007 at 13:28 |
what a bad luck that is! Another typhoon problem happened to Mongols in Java as in Japan. Mmm..interesting and sad story...
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Posted: 04-Jun-2007 at 00:35 |
Originally posted by Omar al Hashim
Ermh 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*.
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I'm vaguely familiar with this version of events.
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Posted: 03-Jun-2007 at 21:08 |
Ermh 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"?
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Posted: 03-Jun-2007 at 15:38 |
[QUOTE=TranHungDao] Lol, it was another typhoon... [quote]
Looks like that
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Posted: 03-Jun-2007 at 15:19 |
Lol, it was another typhoon...
1292-1293: Kublai Khan sent 1000 ships to attack Java. Hit by a typhoon,
and refused permission to land in Champa, the fleet arrived enfeebled. Vijaya,
the ruler of Majapahit, joined the Mongols to attack Kediri, and then launched a
surprise attack on the Mongols, who withdrew.
Source: http://maritimeasia.ws/topic/chronology.html
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The quote above actually cites the (german) website immediately below:
1281
Muslims from Jambi send an embassy to Kublai Khan.
1289
Kublai Khan sends messengers to Singhasari to demand tribute; Kertanegara
slashes their faces and sends them home.
1292
Kublai Khan prepares invasion fleet of 1000 ships to take Java.
November Mongol fleet leaves for Java; lands at Tuban.
Majapahit was one of the few countries of that time to defeat a Mongol
invasion, along with Japan and Egypt. However, the Mongol fleet was hit by a
typhoon along the way, and was refused permission to land in Champa (in today's
Vietnam) to take on supplies. By the time the fleet reached Tuban, the army was
sickened and weak.
1293
Vijaya forms alliance with Mongol forces against remainder of Singhasari in
Kediri, led by Jayakatwang.
March Combined force of Mongol/Chinese soldiers and Majapahit takes
Kediri.
Vijaya returns to Trowulan, then attacks Mongols in a surprise attack. Mongols
retreat and leave Java.
Source: http://home.iae.nl/users/arcengel/Indonesia/100.htm
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1000 ships, so that's approximately 1/4 the size of the fleet sent on
the second invasion of Japan, which numbered about 140,000 men transported by about 4400 ships.
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Posted: 03-Jun-2007 at 14:30 |
There is a discussion on the Mongol invasion to Japan. Is any one interested in discussing Mongols' expedition to Indonesia and the reasons of its failure?
Edited by Sarmat12 - 05-Jun-2007 at 23:14
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