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Romans learns shipbuilding from the Malays?

By C C PungJustice of Peace NDIA and China are two of the five cradles of civilisation of the world. People of Chinese and Indian ethnicities...

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Romans learns shipbuilding from the Malays?

By C C PungJustice of Peace NDIA and China are two of the five cradles of civilisation of the world. People of Chinese and Indian ethnicities happen to be the main communities in Malaysia after the majority Malays. Is this therefore motivation enough for this International Islamic University associate  professor to so eagerly suggest that the Malays too are descendents of a civilisation as influential, knowledge-rich as the others long recognised universally? In not so many words, that seemed to be the message she was trying to convey in her lecture claiming that the Romans learnt shipbuilding from the Malays. She gave no credible sources nor evidence. The Romans ruled for over a thousand years in parts of the globe that...

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