All of Us chapter sampler

East Java 200 BCE Trade and exchange

My brother drums a song for me, How our plank boats ride the sea. The monsoon thunders, rips and spins, Our sails harvest its great winds. We sit and sing with his great drum, Sing, ‘Our trader boats have come.’ Trading pepper, sweet woods, spice, To blue-eyed northern lands of ice. Sing of swamplands ploughed for rice, His drum is bronze, its voice is deep, We own green shadows where tigers sleep.

T I M E L I N E

600 BCE to 200 CE People in the Dong Son region, northern Vietnam, make large ceremonial bronze drums to be traded across Southeast Asia. 500s BCE In northern India, Gautama Buddha teaches Buddhism. 551–479 BCE In China, K’ung Fu-Tzu (Confucius) teaches moral and social philosophy. c.6 BCE to 29 CE In Palestine, Jesus teaches a variant of Judaism that becomes Christianity. 190 CE Champa (central Vietnam) settled by Austronesian people called the Chams. 200s CE China’s overland Silk Road declines, boosting sea trade across Southeast Asia. 500–1,000 CE International trade through Southeast Asia sees the exchange of Roman coins, Indian J . ewels, and Chinese silks and brocades for bronze and iron goods, pearls, ivory, tortoise shells, fragrant woods and bird feathers.

Once we wandered on the sand, Now we carve the sea and land.