Since its inception, the Southeast Asia region has served as a trade route for the surrounding region, East Asia and Southeast Asia. From the South Asian region, intercontinental shipping relations continued to the west until finally reaching Europe, through these trade routes the Southeast Asian region when the following centuries when trade entered the era of globalization in the 5th century became more crowded with the presence of various traders and sailors who used to sailing through the region.
Another impact of this trade route is the entry of the influence of major traditions into the Southeast Asian region, starting from Hindu-Buddhist in the 15th century AD, then Islam in the 7th-13th century AD, and since the 17th century Europe has been parallel to Asia and Southeast Asia. southeast in general.
Around the first century AD 7, although with a small frequency, the Southeast Asian region began to get acquainted with Islamic traditions, this is when Muslim traders, who sailed in the region, stopped for some time, a more intensive introduction of Islam, especially in the Malay peninsula and the archipelago took place several centuries later.
