South/southeast Asia is one of the most underrated regions to study.

As Indonesian I believe Hinduism is still heavily influenced in everyday Indonesian life. Despite of the majority is Muslim. at least I can confirm it happened in Java island, I must rechecked with other region in Indonesia though.

It's the mahajapit (X) Majahapit (X) Mapajahit (X) Mahapajit (X) Mapajahit (X) Ma... ja... pa... hit? (DING)

Even though most Javanese are Muslim their culture has many influences of Hinduism, There is one place in Central Java called Ceto Temple (Indonesian: Candi Ceto) which is a Hindu Temple but the people who inhabit that area are mostly Hindu.

We in Assam,north east India,feel a great cultural affinity with the south east Asian peoples.

Majapahit - the most powerful empire of South East asia which was also the golden era for the region followed by Angkor. Indian influence was very strong in the entire region for almost two thousand years until Islam entered in 15th century via arab trade and then christianity via european colonization. The language scripts in most SE countries mirror the languages in India. Also, Afghanistan was never a separate country historically - It was part of Indian Mauryan empire and had extensive Hindu and Buddhist past until Islamic invasion from Persia and Turks. What is shocking about countries like Indonesia and Malaysia is they had such a great, rich religious and cultural past and their ancestors constructed world renowned UNESCO listed monuments such as Borobudur, Prambhanan which are currently earning a lot of tourist income for Indonesia yet they converted to a totally alien religion to the region like Islam and then you have Philippines converting to Catholicism. This happened only a few hundred years ago. The spanish/Portuguese were quite ruthless when it comes to religious conversions and they did exactly the same in South and Latin america.

*hears* *majapahit* *wants* *to* *make* *a* *Bill* *Wurtz* *reference* *scrolls* *to* *the* *comment* *section* *gives* *up*

Indonesian culture outside of Bali is still heavily influenced by Hinduism.

Some of the descendants of people from Majapahit escaped and live around Mount Bromo / Tengger area and until now they are Hindu ( religion ) and some of them escape to Bali and Blambangan

Ancient Indian architecture is beautiful

There's also a decently thriving Cham Hindu community in the coastal city of Phan Rang-Tháp Chàm, including a few living and active ancient Cham Towers they still use.

Indonesia and malaysia received many influence from india. Curry it's one the famous from India, languages as well Sanskrit.

Should've probably explored modern Javanese culture which still has massive influences from Hinduism Also Balinese culture is heavily dependent on Old Javanese and even the official motto of Indonesia is taken from a Majapahit document preserved by the Balinese. In terms of culture probably Javanese and Balinese are more similar than Javanese and Malays. It's unthinkable I would think for Balinese to want independence. The first Indonesian president also iirc has Balinese blood. Great vid tho, very rare to find topics about the history of this region (while everyone seems to want to go to Bali, not many asks how that mesmerizing culture evolved)

Respect from India! *Salute Majapahit Empire and bali and other hindu budhhist cultures in south east asia!*

Pallava script inspired the Khmer script which in turn inspired the Thai script. The Khmers of Cambodia is a critical part of Southeast Asian history. Thank you for acknowledging Cambodia.

mapajahit x majahapit x mahajapit x majapahit √

Always wanted to know more about history of Bali and neighboring areas, this was a great video to watch! Compared to the depths to which Central Asia and European culture and ethnicity have been analyzed, this part of the world appears almost unknown by comparison. This went a long way in correcting that for me. Keep up the good work!!

Interesting topics for the channel: (in my opinion) Basques Etruscans Sumerians How are south Italians different from north Italians Same as above but with the French And Germans English people, germanic or celtic? (this is a bit of a dumb question actually, but it could be interesting to talk about) Baltic peoples (Latvians and Lithuanians) What if the Arabic speaking world united as a single country? What if the Germanic nations united as a single country? What would America be like today if the Louisiana Purchase never happened? What would America be like today if the South had won? What would Europe be like today if the nazis had won? (good luck not getting demonetized on that one) Genetics of the Turkish people (the guys who live in Turkey) Genetics of New Jerseyans and their mysterious culture (I'd recommend waiting 359 days as of me writing this on April 6th) People who live in the Alps region and countries, culture, languages and origin Hair and eye color Australian aborigines, language, regional differences Maori people Native Hawaiiiiians Who were the Olmecs?

Thank you for presenting Indonesian dharmic heritage and history...

Philippines too there are left of temples of lord Shiva found

Aloha and salam Mason - you've done an awesome job explaining and distilling the region's cultural and religious history, way better than many university professors! I'm from Southeast Asia, and have studied the region myself for a while. Am currently based in Honolulu (was based in NYC before that). I just want to thank you for your work. Very informative and so well done. Curious about your research approach and process. I think a lot of people in academia would do well to learn how to do what you do. Mahalo and terima kasih!

I lived for several years in southeast Asia (Vietnam). The Cham ruins are pretty spectacular, but I found that many Vietnamese don't believe that there are any more Cham left living.

Great content as always. Each time you make a video I have to mentally add another area of the world to go explore when I get rich and/or retire.

Thank you for uploading this history of my country. My town is not far from the ruined site of Majapahit at east java

very interesting to learn about the spread of hinduism across south east asia...i hope they can preerve their unique cultures

Happy to see so many videos on Austronesians! Great channel, keep it up!

Great video again, love you!

Maaate! what a combination of great videos, damned if I can work through your sources.....no time !

Indochina switched from Hinduism to Buddhism and Islam but there is a Hindu minorities in Indochina

One of the best videos of Masaman. Keep it up 👏🏽👌🏽

Can't wait for your new project.

LOVE your work!!!!!

OMG learning more about the Majapahit Empire was awesome!

as an indian i confirm the javanese sure had some real strong relationship with hinduism , something real bad would have happened to make them convert to islam,. other than them i think most of indonesia converted on its own

I just discovered your channel today it's great very interesting keep up the good work. Thanx

Many Javanese Muslims, especially in the Southern Coast of Java follow Abangan, a much syncretic version of Islam that blends Islamic, Hindu, Buddhist and traditional Javanese traditions. While the most Javanese Muslims in the Northern Coast of Java follow Santri, which is a more Middle-Eastern style Islam.

at last you made this vid, but i thought you would include my country Philippines in Majapahit and Sri Vijaya, anyways good vid! appreciated!

You should do a video about Pre-colonial Philippine Kingdoms such as Tondo,Namayan,Cebu Rajahnate,Mad-jas,Butuan and more.

I am in Malaysia. Yet the history sessions we were taught in Primary, Secondary schools are only related to the Sultanate of Malacca. I felt that they were over glorified and should've at least included more histories of pre Islamic societites instead of focusing on the glory of their new faith. Anyway, good video and thanks for some new insights and answers I've been finding for a while (remnants of Majapahit is Bali)

Diggin the topics man... very interesting.

Great content ! Just a quick question can you please share the source you used for the maps that has a label of the current kingdoms at the time ? Thank you :)

wow I learn so much from your videos I used a few of you videos in my college class presentations

love u masaman!! ur video are great and educational!!

very nicely explained history of cultural migrations in south east asia Thanks for sharing. Enjoyed

Hmm I know what your big project is. Its like the graphic presentation of rise and fall kingdoms of the world. Like in the game civilization, at the end of your game, it shows graphical chronology of every civilization from begining to end. Hope you can finish it. Can't wait. Keep up the good work. As for this video, what happened with Majapahit? Just wiki, its there. Interesting though.

Masaman, it will be interesting if you do a video on JAVANESE CULTURE of Indonesia. Always enjoy your videos.

Can you do a video about the Ayutthaya Kingdom of present-day Thailand? I've just learned about this kingdom recently and was shocked that I had missed such an interesting chunk of history for so long. I couldn't find any good youtube videos about it, so you have the chance to cover them before someone else does. ^_^

Hi, I am Indonesian! I really like the Srivijaya (Indonesian: Sriwijaya) & the Majapahit Empire.

Very good work, I study Hindu, and some of us have seen books like swami prabhuapa put togethers in to English with pitcher's to see what happen a long time ago.

Interesting... :) . informative video.... hmm is there by any chance you have history of Brunei? before were within majapahit rule... .? if you do... would love to know more

Can you do a video or series of videos on the tribes of the Amazon Rainforest? Please!!? Do i need to research and inspire you to put this into fruition? I highly recommend you make one or more videos on this topic!

Hey, i'm pattani sultanate ancestor. It was great country long time ago...

Hi Masaman, can you please make a video on the differences between Northern Han Chinese and Southern Han Chinese. Your subscribers will be very interested if you made a video on this topic.

Mahapajit X Mapahajit X Majahapit X Majapahit? Dingdingding

majahapit mahapajit mapajahit majapahit

Cool video :)

As an Indonesian, I just want to say that we declared independence on August 17, 1945, and we reject the date that the Europeans and the United Nations recognize as our "independence day". We don't celebrate that day. We celebrate August 17.

Thanks man for this very educating video !!! Absolutely love your channel !!! Also interesting in context to this video is that fact that there were migrations from the Indian North-East to the region of Indo - China !!!

Good job here... You have done much better job than most Indian academician's

Those little boats that little girl was playing with were really cool looking.

The Kingdom of Champa was Hindu in most of its history. By the time Vietnamese invaded Champa, the Cham people already in the process of converting to Islam due to contacts with Maritime Southeast Asia. That explains why they are majority Muslim today. There is even a Muslim Khmer prince aided by Cham and Malay mercenaries try to usurp the Khmer throne, but does not succeed.

Jarang jarang bule ngebahas tentang Imprium Majapahit

Can you do a video on the inca empire and the local indigenous tribes that live in the region today.

Thank you very much.

Finally some spotlight on Southeast Asian and Khmer culture

Cham and champa are really interesting because they relatively unknown. Additionally they are discriminated against as ethnic minority group too.

Do u plan to make video 'bout Altaic languages or Genghis Khan's descendants?

you do the best research masaman my man

You should tells the history behind Majapahit first, like from Singhasari Kingdom and it's war against Mongol invasion

The Cham history and their interaction with Viet is one of many interesting part of history that I think people may interesting. There was a time when Cham culture and religion influence greatly on Viet culture to the North with Viet's king and emperor often took a Cham nobilities as concubine and also send their daughters to the Southern kingdom.

Masaman, can you do a demographic video about the Philippines?

Hmmmm open mind open heart.. sometimes we find it hard to accept reality... om nama siwa ya

You should do a video on Tristan de Cunha. It has to be one of the most demographically interesting places on the planet! From a starting population of Brits, Scots, Spanish, Russians, Americans, and Africans to now facing an inbreeding crisis.

Proud Hindu

Great videos like this should make people embrace other cultures more openly not the other way around.

I wish for a cultural & artistic revival of pre colonial south east Asian history, especially in mine (The Philippines). For too long we have neglected our ancestors proud heritage because they were not European or Christian like the Spaniards or Americans, it is disgraceful to think in that way, we identity first as ASIANS, not Hispanic, not American or European. We need to embrace our Animistic, Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim Heritage, it is very upsetting for me to know that the only few people in the Philippines who embrace their heritage before colonialism, are the Aeta, Highland Tribes, Lumads and Moros among others, because the Catholic church in our country isn't a *peaceful or humanitarian institution*. They had some very liberal leaders, but so what? Question about their stance on Contraception and Abortion to a country over 100 million people and poverty reaching to about a 1/5th or 1/4 of the population. Like the translation movement during the golden age of Islam, where they translated ancient Greek texts ranging from science, literature to philosophy and even developing their own. We should follow the same path, revive our ancient script, bond with our fellow Asians and reach beyong the dreams of economic prosperity as it is a must, as it was for Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, South Korea & China. Whether based on their system of authoritarian capitalism or Scandinavia's social democracy. We must succeed✊

It's majapahit, Masaman. Where Maja : kind of fruit growing in the capital of the kingdom , and Pahit : bitter

Can you tell us about the Indian Chola Empire and their impact on South East Asian.

Great video Masaman, though I would also like to add some other interesting Hindu communities. Theres the Tamils in the city of Medan, North Sumatra. The Dutch brought them here as laborers and their brand of Hinduism is much closer to the one practiced in South Asian than in Bali. There's also the Karahingan people in Central Borneo who are registered as Hindus, but in actuality theym're religion is more animists than actual Hindus. That's because at one point, the government declared that anyone who wasn't a muslim or a christian are automatically Hindus because of their animist practices. Great video nevertheless :) I look forward to more videos on Maritime Southeast Asia, the demographics of this region is very interesting, and myself as an Indonesian have only just scratched the surface.

Hmm.. Interesting...

Indonesia was adherent mostly to their own regional faiths (each places are different and they're never specific), which was influenced by Indianization.

Hinduism isn’t only polytheistic it’s also monotheistic as stated in he vedas and even atheistic as 5/6 philosophical schools in Hinduism are charvakas being atheistic

You cover the Etruscans, Basques, and (Pre-Roman) Italic (Ethno-Lingustic group) People. I had a quick read on Wikipedia and fell in love with the PRE Roman Italians (Etruscans, Sicels, Elymi, Corsi, Ligurian, Veneti, Liburni, Oscan, Sherden (Sea peoople), Iapygians, Volosci, and Latins.

Admin thanks u uplod majapahit

Hey Masamam, I have a video idea for you to tackle: what if California or Texas seceded from the US?

Request: demographic of Iran I will stop requesting Iraq because you told me you are doing it thank you and great video

Wow! Thanks for featuring this topic... Subscriber from the Philippines here, one of the countries that are part of the majapahit empire( before) 😊👍👍

Do a video about Capeside from Dawson's Creek.

You turned my world upside down ( I live in SE Asia ).

Reminds me of my Europa Universalis 4 game as Majapahit where I took over Australia and later Alaska

hey masaman, hainan in china is pronounced “hi-nun”, just fyi! great video as usual:)

Nice

Thanks Bro ! Proud to be Malagasy from Madagascar , who stay her in INDONESIA ( Surabaya ).

"South Asian DNA makes up around 6 - 14% Ethnic Balinese gene pool' can you give me the source for that please.

Ah, I see you use Gimp as well. A true man of culture.

You should do a video on Swahili coast and Khmer Empire.

If you look in the map you will see something that wrong, actually we have two empire with name Majapahit, the first Majapahit is located in java islands, second Majapahit is located in northern peninsular Malaysia, in this empire remain separated because the split between monarchy, the second Majapahit in Northern Malaysia becoming Islamic Sultanate of Kelantan, and Majapahit first in java island fall after the war.

REVIVE THE MAJAPAHIT EMPIRE AND MAKE INDONESIA GREAT AGAIN !

Big fan of your work. Please do the history about tamil people of south India.

I like the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope version of Bali, because you know, they were On The Road to Bali....