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Page 231
... Asian arts Southeast Asia has been the crossroads of many races who have been contending against each other for centu- ries . At present , all the peoples of Southeast Asia are Mongoloid in racial origin . The first to come were the ...
... Asian arts Southeast Asia has been the crossroads of many races who have been contending against each other for centu- ries . At present , all the peoples of Southeast Asia are Mongoloid in racial origin . The first to come were the ...
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... Asia were cultivating plants , making pottery , and working in bronze about the same time as the peoples of the ancient Near East , and therefore civilization spread from mainland Southeast Asia to China and India . Southeast Asians ...
... Asia were cultivating plants , making pottery , and working in bronze about the same time as the peoples of the ancient Near East , and therefore civilization spread from mainland Southeast Asia to China and India . Southeast Asians ...
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... Asia , and over the two layers of primitive and Hindu - Buddhist cultures was added the third layer of Islam . In mainland Southeast Asia , a new Burmese empire arose over the ruins of the old and con- tinued its task of spreading ...
... Asia , and over the two layers of primitive and Hindu - Buddhist cultures was added the third layer of Islam . In mainland Southeast Asia , a new Burmese empire arose over the ruins of the old and con- tinued its task of spreading ...
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