HOI Episode 4 - Early Java

A History of Indonesia

Feb 5, 201726:46Society & Culture

Rice kingdoms emerge in highland Java and usher in a period of temple construction culminating in Borobudur and Prambanan. Power moves to the East and trade in spices takes off.

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