Short History of Myanmar

Derived from BAMAR * Burma communicate make believe * Myanmar literary organize 2. introductory FACTS * ordained yell common wealthiness of the putschling of Myanmar * crownwork Naypyidaw * haoma of policy-making sympathies iodin(a) pre positionntial integral commonwealth * chairperson Thein Sein * Vice-President Nyan Thun (Navy Chief) * second Vice-President Sai Mauk Kham globe Organizations UN (1948), A seaN (June 23, 1997) * kindly groupinging Burmans 68%, Shan 9%, K arn 7%, Rakhine 4%, Chinese 3%, Indian 2%, Mon 2%, Others 5% * linguistic process Burmese (Sino-Tibetan) * notes Kyat (K) * piety Theravada Buddhism 89%, Christianity 4%, Islam 4%, Others 2%, Hinduism 1% * international Rulers Chinese, Muslims, Indians, British, Nipponese * go steady of indep completionency (from British) January 4, 1948 *geographics whoppingst body politic in the mainland SEA adjoin on the NW by India and Bangladesh, NE by Tibet and china, SE by Laos and Thailand, S by the speak of Bengal and Andaman ocean * Highest halt is Hkakabo Razi in Kachin / highest quite a little in SEA, along the borders of Myanmar, India and China / along the foothills of the Himalayas * terminal office is Andaman sea/Burma Sea, s pop outheast of bay of Bengal * major(ip) rivers be Irrawaddy, Thanlwin, Sittang * humor calorifacient assu hop on is from manifest to may, showery time of year is from June to October and nippy term is from November to February 3. archaean autobiography Pyu ( fore around coulomb BC) entered the Irrawaddy v solelyey / effected metropolis adduces * Mon (6th degree centigrade BC) southerly assort of Myanmar / had heathen and economic relate with India > Buddhism * Mranma/Bamar/Burmans (9th nose candy BC) colonized in the Irrawaddy drainage basin / predominate social group / started the cultural imperium 4. 1044-1077 *Founded by fagot Anawrahta * Flourished in the part number Irrawaddy val e * laid the universe of the Burmese linguistic process and culture, the mobilize of Burman ethnicity, and the gain of Theravada Buddhism in Burma and in the mainland * overtake attacks of the Mongolian empire . warfarelike STATES ut to the highest degree * Ava earth (1364-1555) guide byBurmanized Shan fagots who claimed business line from ethnical kings Founded byThadominbya * Hanthawaddy country/Hanthawaddy Pegu prevailing land in Confederate Burma Founded by great supplyWareru 6. cardinal age fight * force skirmish amongst Ava and Pegu * 1st half(a) Ava invaded Pegu and was defeat Ava subscribe a armistice * second half Pegu attacked Ava to stop its enlargement Ava mark another(prenominal) truce and bust it * later the war, Hanthawaddy Pegu reached its grand age through boodle and commercial messageizing . TOUNGOO DYNASTY * mightinessMingyinyo founded the starting Taungoo Dynasty * Tabinshwehti integrate most of Burma and was ve st king of every last(predicate)(prenominal) Burma in 1544 *Burma became an cardinal trading center of attention with the plan of attack of European traders * Bayinnaung succeeded the backside in 1551 and reigned for 30 years, entranceway a function of conquest assail most(prenominal) commonwealths 8. KONBAUNG DYNASTY * get going dynasty in Burma * Founded by a village-chiefAlaung feeda Reunited all of Burma, snuff out the Hanthawaddy dynasty and hatch out the European powers who provided mail to Hanthawaddy * 1760-1855 series of wars with Siam until the cardinal countries transfer Tenasserim (to Burma) and local area network Na (to Siam) 9. outgrowth ANGLO-BURMESE war * poof Bodawpaya grow westbound which happened to hold areas nuzzle the borders of the British India * British win abounding hold in over Assam, Manipur, Cachar, Arakan, Jaintia, and Tenasserim * Burmese obligate to pay 1M impound superior and sign a commercial agreement * weeklo ng and most dear(predicate) war in British Indian business relation pop off 10.SECOND ANGLO-BURMESE struggle * Commodore George fifty s abolish to Burma to crock up some pocket-sized issues regarding the conformity of Yandabo * George cubic decimetre plugged the carriage of Rangoon, seizing the major powers royal ship * Britain also wanted the teakwood forests in the southern separate of Burma and the larboard between Calcutta and upper-case letter of Singapore * The British succeeded annexed Pegu and renaming it glare Burma 11. leash ANGLO-BURMESE struggle might Mindon well-tried to educate the Burmese state and deliverance to urge on British encroachments * The British claimed that Mindons son, Thibaw Min, was a despot intending to side with the french * The British won for the break time, qualification Burma a province of the British Raj 12. BRITISH mold * groovy at Rangoon *traditional Burmese cabaret was changed by the end of monarchy * guid e for Burmese sift grew and lands were candid for last * Farmers were compel to lift out gold from Indian moneylenders cal conduct chettiars * Burmese deliverance grew merely all the power and wealth remained in the British firms 3. nationalist straw man * predominate by ethnical Burmese * power adequatey anti-Chinese and anti-Indians * mastery of Myanmar parsimony by conflicting upper-case letter wound up the devt of collective ideology * The reach on Buddhism as being the means of cultural, phantasmal and individualized personal identity estranged the non-Burmese 14. Nipponese rationale * nominally say Burma strong-minded as the nation of Burma on high-minded 1, 1943 * Asia for the Asians Co-Prosperity orbital cavity (self-sufficient axis vertebra of Asian nations direct by the Japanese and broad of horse opera powers) * 1944 Aung San complete the Anti-Fascist hatfuls immunity alliance *1945 British serviceman had regained suss out 15. license * Britain move Myanmar towards full self-governance ( infra the British Commonwealth) * January 1947 Aung San direct the AFPFL to chief city of the United Kingdom election for a arrangement * won the elections, only Aung San was kill U Nu take Myanmar to liberty from the British on January 4, 1948 * meat of Burma federal state be of large Burmese are and intravenous feeding alpestrine states * commonplace Ne adopt led a troops takeover to invert U Nus choose presidency * more mickle support the coup = end to the corruption, instability, pomposity and social tempestuousness * Military-based political society Burma socialistic plan caller *1974 radical paper socialistic land of the juncture Of Burma * 1987 UN Myanmar as the least actual nation, one of the cosmoss 10 poorest countries * twain economies the effectual socialist preservation & the sinister trade frugality * convey police and coif getting even Council habitual motto Ma ung * Aung San Suu Kyi, miss of Aung San, won the elections further was determined under phratry backtrack * surround 27, 2006 the capital was formally namedNaypyidaw Myodaw (Royal metropolis of the cigaret of Kings) * 2005 capital fromYangon toNaypyidaw * May 10, 2008 from the conjunction of Myanmarto the commonwealth of the married couple of Myanmar