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| | Southeast Asia, 1-500 A.D. | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | By the sixth century A.D., Indian influence on the mainland is significantprosperous kingdoms in Thailand adopt Indian political, cosmological, and religious practices, and Sanskrit inscriptions are found in eastern Kalimantan and western Java. |
 | | The mainland played a role in international trade as early as the fourth century B.C. when ships in the Bay of Bengal stopped at the Isthmus of Kra from which their goods were portaged to the Gulf of Thailand, thereby avoiding the lengthy and arduous voyage around the Malay Peninsula. |
 | | Ties with India are strengthened during the second to the fourth century A.D., and by the sixth century A.D., prosperous city-states or kingdoms flourish, adopting Indian political, cosmological, and religious thought. |
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