The area, which is now Thailand, has been populated ever since the dawn of civilization in Asia. The first humans in this region were hunter-gatherers whose way of life was based on hunting wild animals and gathering whatever grew wild in the woods and the hills. Later on man learnt to modify nature, growing cereals such as rice and breeding livestock. Rice-growing communities sprang up. Metal casting and pottery making also became highly developed skills as these prehistoric settlements prospered. Cast bronze technology in the northeastern Thailand area dates from around 2000 BC, making the prehistoric settlements in Thailand just as technologically advanced as those of India and China.
The history of Thailand begins with the migration of the Thais from their ancestoral home in southern China into mainland southeast asia around the 10th century AD. Prior to this Mon, Khmer and Malay kingdoms ruled the region. The Thais established their own states starting with Sukhothai and then Ayutthaya kingdom. These states fought each other and were under constant threat from the Khmers, Burma and Vietnam. Much later, the European colonial powers threatened in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but Thailand survived as the only Southeast Asian state to avoid colonial rule. After the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand endured sixty years of almost permanent military rule before the establishment of a democratic system.clash- clank clar.. width="425" height="350" ..DDZ Feat Lydia - You Have A Call.. width="425" height="350" ..DDZ - Toh Maa Tam-Mai.. width="425" height="350" ..G-JR - Show time.. width="425" height="350" ..G-JR Happy Birthday.. width="425" height="350" ..Girly Berry - REALITY.. width="425" height="350" ..Kala - shai mai
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