Malacca Went from a Village of Primitive Malay Fisherman to a Wealthy Kingdom

Malacca is the most historical state and situated on the southwest of Peninsular Malaysia. It is established by Parameswara in 1380-1403. A lot of changes from a village of royal refugees or well known as a little village of primitive Malay fisherman to a wealthy kingdom. Richard Winstedt, the author of Malaya and Its History had written that century Malacca as a great kingdom had grown into an important port and the golden era of an emperor. The Malacca Empire was said to consist of the entire of the Malay Peninsular, the eastern parts of Sumatera and the Riau-Lingga Archipelago. This is supported by Duarte Barbosa, who was a Portuguese writer and he had stated that Malacca well known a richest sea-port with the huge number of wholesale merchants and a lot of shipping that have been met in the whole world. Then, Malacca had become an international seaport with merchant ships arriving from China, India, Middle East, East Asia and the Malay Archipelago.

Malacca was known as a center for Islamic learning because Islam was declared as the official religion since the Sultan and his people was embraced Islam. Malacca is well known as a place where Islam thrives. The Malacca Palace is functioned as the centre of dissemination, and encouraged the development of the Malay language, literature and arts. As stated by the author, ‘So keen was interest in theological speculation that Sultan Mansur Syah sent the Pasai court a present yellow and purple brocade, a red lorry and a brown caockatoo, with a letter offering 9 lb. of gold dust and two slave-girls to any theologian who could say if those in heaven and those in hell remain in their respective places forever’ which shown that Malay was stuck in tradition and according to Duarte Barbosa,...

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...w the weakness of Emperor Malacca. Since Malacca became an important port and remark as trading centre, they only focused on with its wealth and prestige compare to strengthen the city against future possible attacks from the enemies. So, it had shown the weak ruling government.

The man who succeeded in the capture of Malacca was Alfonso de Albuquerque, who was a key player in much of the Portuguese expansion efforts in Asia. Tomé Pires was a Portuguese apothecary from Lisbon who spent 1512 to 1515 in Malacca had mentioned that ‘Malacca should be provided with excellent officials, expert traders, lovers of peace, not arrogant, quick tempered, undisciplined, dissolute, but sober and elderly, for Malacca has no white-haired official’, Tomé Pires want to show that it is important role in uniting citizens of a country which resulted the formation of a strong government.