Austronesian

The Austronesian peoples descend from a seaborne expansion that left Taiwan between about 3000 and 1500 BCE and reached as far south as New Zealand. With outrigger canoes and crab-claw sails they carried rice, bananas, coconuts, pigs and chickens to new islands. Here the group means the peoples of Java, Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi, the Philippines and the Cham coast of Vietnam.

Majapahit, founded in Java in 1293, was rising under Gajah Mada in 1337. Islam spread along the trading ports, and Malacca grew powerful around 1400. Dai Viet destroyed the Cham city of Vijaya in 1471, Spain began ruling the Philippines in 1565, and the Dutch founded Batavia in 1619.