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The source of many material distributions in Southeast Asia was a result of the Silk Road era; it consisted of historical sea and land trade routes across Afro-Eurasian that connects East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean and the European world. . It also included North and East Africa. The Silk Road consisted of trade routes that were expanding overtime due to different colonies’ desires for specific items The 15th to 17th was a time known as the “age of discovery” in Southeast Asia because of the recognition and demand of SE Asia’s natural resources from European powers. In SE Asia, spices were useful and popular for creating flavor in food .Spices were in high demand and were imported and exported through The Silk Road; it flourished during the colonization period. It included black pepper, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, turmeric, nutmeg, and cloves, nutmeg, etc. Nutmeg was the most popular and most expensive to get because of how scarce it was. The European colonization of Southeast Asia began in the 16th century by the influence of when the Dutch and Portuguese were colonizing SE Asia for their spices. Throughout the 17th and 18th century, the British and Dutch began to colonize Southeast Asia. The Dutch arrived in Batavia and established Dutch East Indies. The British established themselves in the Strait Settlements, British Malaya, Borneo, and Burma. In the 19th century, the French established French Indochina. All of Southeast Asia was colonized, except Thailand. In the 19th century, during the Industrial Revolution, European powers also colonized Southeast Asia by selling their excess machinery items to SE Asia Not only spices, but also ceramics, stoneware, and porcelain were popular items used for trading in Southeast Asia. Mainland Southeast Asia is distinguished by the ongoing complementary coexistence of two major ceramic traditions-earthenware and stoneware. Earthenware has been produced in the region for more than eight thousand years. Stoneware production has continued for two thousand years. These two basic types of clay bodies have been used for processing, amending, and forming of the clay body; the use of resins, pigments, slips, and glazes; and the development of firing procedures and kilns.