Why Did Southeast Asia Become A Colony?
Southeast Asia, it’s very hard to come to an exact answer on who was the first set of people to inhabitant that country. It’s hard to say because in the first century India and China began a trade route with Burma further east in Vietnam. There are many things that caused Southeast Asia to become a colony. The main thing was that the Europeans needed spices and the only way they could get it in that time was to colonize Southeast Asia. The Europeans treated them in a mutual way you could say. It was mutual way because they brought good and bad effects with them colonizing Southeast Asia. The changes can be split up into three groups economic, political, and social. Some of the political changes were Centralism was formed in Southeast Asia although