Majapahit Essays

In the fast growing spices and intensive rice cultivation, the Majapahit Empire competed for extensive maritime trade. The location where the strong points of Java geographic centre between the myriads of islands, providing access to the economy and control products archipelago. In addition, trade relations have been connected to the countries beyond. International trade brings the cultural context, gives the farmers to maintain the income of the rich elite cult and devotion for the Buddha and Hindu

ANCIENT INDONESIA In Indonesia, the first people arrived about 40,000 years ago, when sea level was joined to Asia by a land bridge and sea level was lower. In the end of the last ice age 10,000 BC a really big amount of new people came. At first they gathered plants for food, collected shellfish and hunted animals. By about 2,500 BC they learned to grow crops such as millet, bananas, rice and taro. The early farmers also made pottery with tools made of stone. However by 700 BC the Indonesians learned

Islam. Then The now Muslim Sultan Raden Fatah spread Islam towards the cities of Cirebon and Banten and then to the northern coast of Java into The kingdom of Gresik. Feeling Threatened by the rising power of Demak Sultanate, the last king of the Majapahit empire (Prabhu Udara) decided to attack the Demalk Sultanate and Demak itself with the help of The King of KlungKung on Bali in the year 1513. The affect of Commodites On Indonesia’s Religion is massive as entire kingdoms and soon almost entirely

Indonesia went through crucial events in the last few centuries including the spread of Islamic faith and influence. The spreading started out from trades that happened between Indonesians and Arabians (Sousa). Religious laws and traditions have changed from the moment Islam spread in Indonesia. Architectural style and mandatory rules also changed. Islam also had an impact on Indonesia economically, such as on banking and financial products (Rama). Islamic culture expedited massive changes whether

sure whether Kitab Pararaton is supposed to be used as a primary source to study Indonesian medieval history of kingdoms in Java (Anon). They compare Kitab Pararaton to Kakawin Negarakertagama which was written by Mpu Prapanca, an eyewitness of Majapahit kingdom when Hayam Wuruk was the ruler. The problem is, events that are written in Kitab Pararaton, especially the ones that contain the flaws of the royal family, are not written in Kakawin Negarakertagama. The latter is said to be written as a