A Sumatran maritime empire that dominated trade between the Indian Ocean and South China Sea for six centuries, making it the dominant commercial and Buddhist learning center of the Malay world.
Gradually collapsed following the devastating Chola naval raids of 1025 CE and subsequent decline; Majapahit delivered the final blow in 1377 by defeating Palembang, the former Srivijayan capital, extinguishing the last efforts to revive the thalassocracy.
The atlas holds 5 border frames for Srivijaya — the shape you scrub through changes in 650 · 850 · 950 · 1050 · 1150.
Wolters's companion study of the maritime trade origins of Srivijaya, by the same leading authority on the empire.
Traces the maritime world Srivijaya dominated and the commercial networks it enabled.