An Age of Glory - A Sri Vijaya TL

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An Age of Glory

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One of my goals in this TL is for the Sri Vijaya to at least colonize some parts of Australia and to also make its 'daughter states' prosperous as well..

I have some notes on my computer and I will write it later or tomorrow..
 
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Fleeing Sri Vijaya

The Sri Vijayan nobles migrate to the Island of Ilaya, formerly called Maniolas by the Greeks and were even worshiped by it's people and one of the Sri Vijayan nobles founds the House of Tondo, the people of Ilaya remember the migrant nobles and believe that they are gods and that they are great and would be remembered because of what they did in the land.
The decline of Srivijaya was contributed by foreign piracy and raids that disrupted the trade and security in the region. Attracted to the wealth of Srivijaya, in 1025 Rajendra Chola, the Chola king from Coromandel in South India, launched naval raids on ports of Srivijaya and conquered Kadaram (modern Kedah) from Srivijaya and occupied it for some time. The Cholas are known to benefitted from both piracy and foreign trade. Sometimes Chola seafaring led to outright plunder and conquest as far as Southeast Asia. An inscription of King Rajendra states that he captured Sangrama-vijayottungga-varman, the King of Kadaram, took a large heap of treasures including the Vidhyadara-torana, the jewelled 'war gate' of Srivijaya adorned with great splendour. The Cholas continued a series of raids and conquests of parts of Sumatra and Malay Peninsula for the next 20 years.
Due to the raids and destruction on 1068, the ruler of Tondo invited noblemen of Sri Vijaya to settle Ilaya or Selurong in order to avoid the persecution by the ruler of Chola who had just conquered Sri Vijaya, many nobles from Sri Vijaya fled north to the Island of Selurong or Bahi where one of the cities is ruled by the House of Tondo and to Sulu as well, a royal house descended from one of the nobles of Sri Vijaya, the ruler of Tondo welcomed these nobles because they are from Sri Vijaya and aside from that the Sri Vijayan nobles migrated because they wanted refuge from the Chola invaders.
In the same time, Sri Vijayan refugees also migrate Madagascar they believed that Madagascar is safe from the Cholas, years passed and the Cholas were removed from Sri Vijaya...
 
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Expulsion of the Cholas

Sri Indrapura, the son of Sri Dewa aspired to expel the Cholas from Sri Vijaya and restore the native Sri Vijayan dynasty to the Sri Vijayan throne, he said that a King or supreme ruler needs to have virtue and dignity to rule its own subjects and .he was is believed to have said that a King needs to be honored and loved by his subjects in order to rule and for that reason he attacked the Chola regents who are ruling Sri Vijaya in Sumatra and Java in the place of the Maharaja of Chola, he was very determined to get back the throne of his ancestors.

Sri Indrapura saw the flaws of the Chola which is that it is weak on the inland battles so he decided that he would change his base to Melaka where he would be able to raise a better army against the regents of Chola, Sri Indrapura created a marvelous and very vibrant city of Melaka.

When he started his plan to expell the Chola regents he asked for the help of the Khmer Empire in expelling the Chola regents, he was able to gain the help of the Khmer Empire and because of that he had superior armies against the Chola regents and because of that the native Sri Vijayan authority was restored in Sumatra but not yet on Java, the Sailendra were loved on Sumatra as well as on Malaya peninsula, the autonym of the restored Sri Vijaya is Malaya so now known as the Kingdom of Malaya as well at this point.

Sri Indrapura finally was able to expell the Chola regents on all of the lands of Sri Vijaya, Sri Indrapura is very purpose oriented that he was very determined to complete his percieved mission in life to liberate the lands of his ancestors even if it meant his death, he is very happy to have restored all of the Sri Vijaya to Sailendrian rule and due to that he is widely regarded as a hero.

In the end he was able to achieve ruling and uniting the lands of Sri Vijaya under his own rule, it is in his reign where in the daughter states of Sri Vijaya such as Tondo and Sulu started to flourish under his support due to his sending of people to those areas, Indrapura would rule up to 60 years since 1067 aside from being known as a hero.



 
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Sri Vijayan Trade Routes
Sri Vijaya is indicated in Cyan,the Sri Vijayan daughter states and the areas influenced by Sri Vijaya are indicated in a lighter shade of Cyan.


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Boatmen from the East

On the meantime on 1066, Boatmen from Mangareva finally reach the Chavin and Maya starting a cultural exchange between Mangareva and the New World and the settlement of Rapa Nui.

On 1067, A man named Amana marries a Maya woman named Akushtal who brings Maize back with her to Mangareva, Akushtal is very beautiful and smart and was an asset to the people of Mangareva and Akushtal and Amana had many children together, and the event was followed with people who also bring back Maize and Manioc with them, Akushtal was later remembered as the one who would carry back the Maize and Manioc from the New World and in reverse there are boatmen who migrated to the New World and introduced Chickens to the Maya the Boatmen and the Maya had very good relations.

The Crops that were introduced to Mangareva made the populations of Rapa Nui and Mangareva started to be higher than before due to many babies being born that it was believed that the new crops were some kind of a miracle food that gives more babies and due to that Akushtal's reputation in the Mangareva became very good and sometimes she was worshiped as a goddess due to Akushtal being believed to have brought back Corn and Manioc to Mangareva.

The Crops fast spread to Tahiti, Samoa and parts of Melanesia after 20 years of being introduced from the Mayans and due to them hearing about what happened to the Mangareya and Rapa Nui and they started to settle the big land South West of Melanesia which they called it Savaii, named after the land of Savaii on Samoa it is known as the other Savaii.

On 1100, the Crops finally entered on one of the areas influenced by the Sri Vijaya.

 

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The Later reign of Sri Indrapura

On 1090, Sri Indrapura has a son named Jayapura who is his successor who was one of his governors as well, Jayapura married a Tondo Princess which tied the Principality of Tondo to the Malaya or Sri Vijaya as allies not just Tondo being a daughter state of Sri Vijaya, at this point the Principality of Tondo has many subordinates, they are the Principality of Kaboloan, Principality of Irraya, Principality of Lihan and Principality of Kumintang all ruled by the junior branches of the House of Tondo which rules the Island of Ilaya.
Later on 1102, the strange crops from the East had spread to the Sri Vijaya and Sri Indrapura noticed that the people had started to reproduce faster in the areas where in these strange crops where found, Sri Indrapura asked the people to present him the Strange crops to him and even tasted them, Sri Indrapura felt happy eating those new crops, since the arrival of the Strange crops meant prosperity and the increase of Population in their area.
Due to the Population increase in his later part of his reign, Sri Indrapura is believed only as not as the liberator but the great as well because it is in his reign where Sri Vijaya or Malaya flourished due to the new crops that were introduced, Sri Indrapura was happy about the population increase as the Population increase pushed inland to the Mountainous areas.
Sri Indrapura said due to the increase of population of Malaya and its client and daughter states that the increase of Population will be the begining of an age of Glory.
Indrapura: This will be the begining of a new age...An Age of Glory!
The Population increase also meant that the state of Malaya/Sri Vijaya started to be coherent and started to centralize and reforms are made in the Sri Vijaya/Malaya.
 
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Population increase and its consequences
Really the population increase was only inward due to the population being more inland now, now that the population has expanded inland and even heavily populated the areas that are thinly spread in population, later, the population expanded into Bahi(Selurong) and Sug(Sulu) and they had started to settle in the southern areas in Selatan(OTL Australia) due to the population expansion limitation to the mountains, the native people of Selatan were first very hostile of the idea of Sri Vijayans resettling Selatan but the people of Sri Vijaya that settled proved to be very strong and very powerful that the Native Selatanese were afraid of the new people of Selatan.

In Selatan, a Sri Vijayan community started due to the migration of people from Sri Vijaya to Selatan, the Island south of Java whose southern part is a desert whose end is uknown at the time Sri Vijayans settled it.
The original people of Selatan are dark people resembling the people of the Island of Papua, the original people of Selatan have no knowledge of Agriculture and were pushed out of the area settled by the Sri Vijayans or assimilated by the Sri Vijayan settlers.
 
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Rise of Jayapura
On 1120, the Old Jayapura rose in the throne of Malaya or Sri Vijaya after Sri Indrapura died but it meant that the Empire of Malaya or Sri Vijaya would beglorious because Jayapura had learned from his father, the Great Indrapura.
In the reign of Jayapura the influence of Sri Vijaya extended to Champa and Cambodia and because of that Sri Vijaya became rich and powerful and aside from that Jayapura was known for wise which he inherited from his dad, Indrapura.
Jayapura established a relationship with China by trading and due to that the crops that arrived from the sea to the Sri Vijaya also entered China and Japan and in that time the contact between the Pacific Islanders and Sri Vijaya waned due to the famines in Micronesia which caused the end of the contact between Sri Vijaya and Polynesia but the people of Sri Vijaya are greatful of the people from the East because they gave the miracle crops to them.
Jayapura visited the Island of Ilaya where his wife came from and established good relations with it but also Jayapura wanted to improve the relationship of Ilaya with Sri Vijaya and he also visited China ruled by the Song Dynasty after he went to Ilaya, he was recieved well in the Chinese court which treated him well, after going to the Song Empire he went to Champa in order to improve the ties between Majapahit and Champa, in the meantime the Kings of the Mon states also started to trade more with Sri Vijaya.
The people of Madagascar also made trade contacts with Sri Vijaya because they learned now that it is free from the control of Chola which occupied the Sri Vijaya for a time.
The Chola Kingdom admitted their loss at the time when Jayapura ruled Sri Vijaya but Chola was weakening at that time and it needed an ally on Sri Vijaya so they decided to improve their ties by sending an emissary to the Sri Vijaya or Malaya.
 
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