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History Unit 1 and 2 - Coggle Diagram
History Unit 1 and 2
improtant people needed for a trading port
archipelago traders, came from arab for rice, coffee, etc.
european traders came for products such as cotton for manufactoring things
chinese middlemen helped to trade by acting as middlemen for archipelago traders and european traders
chettiars are usually indian people wholend money for businessmen
chinese unskilled labourers and worked for traders loading and unloading goods, cheap labour
provision shop keepers of daily necessities
European rule in southeast Asia
dutch east indies, british burma and borneo,french indochina
spice islands controlled by the dutch
industrial revolution in europe, increase production
british used straits of melaka to trade
british ports off route, used dutch port , have to pay taxes
singapore was suitable for british traders and break dutch control over the region
treaty signed to give british a trading port in SG, only until 1824 was it a colony
Anglo-Dutch treaty
uses a line to seperate SEA into dutch and british monoply region, bencoolen is given to dutch while Melaka was given to british
Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with Sultan Hussein and Tememnggong more money than before, giving british full control by 2nd resident, John Crawfurd
timeline of british rule
Under EIC rule from 1826-1858
Under the government of India
Under direct british rule
entrepot trade
where items are sold here and brought here
singapore is in the midpoint of Europe, india and china
many goods found here
attract traders to go to SG
free port status
no need for taxes or custom duties, and no restrictions on who could trade unlike other ports
free immigration policy
british did not control migrants as it was jz more cheap labour
no need immigration papers
traders and merchants can come as many times as they want
migrants came from nearby countries like arabs, indians, chinese and europeans
push factors
forced out of homelands due to starvation, conflict etc.
make enough money to send back home
pull fatcors
Asian influence limited European laws
crime increased a lot
Set-up of a small police force