ABSTRACT
The Southeast Asian region is not a unit in the religious, historical, geographical, or ethnic sense. In fact, colonial history has only helped to enhance separatist development among Southeast Asian peoples. It is supposed that "Java Man" had an almost upright body stance and may have been a contemporary of the ten-foot-tall pongids called Gigantopithecus blacki, from southern Kwansi to the fairly open expanses of western Indonesia, from the Pliocene to the Middle Pleistocene epochs. In general, it may be said that the Hoabinhians engaged both on land and at sea in hunting, food gathering, and fishing. There is no doubt that before the Indian cultural influence became widespread, Southeast Asia had fostered an indigenous culture. Along with Hinduism, Buddhism—Mahayana and Theravada—spread from India to Funan, Angkor, Sumatra, and Java in the first millennium. The religion Muhammad preached was simple and easy to follow.
