Social Aspect

Book Source:

“Singapore was already a busy trading center before Raffles came in 1819. There are hundreds of thousands of artefacts, both local and foreign, especially pottery shards, broken pieces of pottery found in Singapore. “

This is related to the social and economic aspect.

This shows that many traders around the world had come to Singapore to trade in the 14^th century. Singapore has also been well known to many traders, especially Chinese. One of the Chinese traders Wang Dayuan, had also written an account on Singapore.


Artefact from Museum:

Broken pieces of ceramics found by the Singapore River. 

The broken pieces have distinctive Chinese drawings 
These artefacts is related to the social and political aspect. 
These artefacts tells us that there were presence of Chinese in Singapore before 1819. The evidence is that “the broken pieces have distinctive Chinese drawings on them”. This shows that there were people living in Singapore before 1819 or there Chinese traders before 1819.