I will present about Ayutthaya Kingdom
The kingdom of Ayutthaya (Thai) was a Thai kingdom that existed from 1350 to 1767. King Ramathibodi I (Uthong) founded Ayutthaya as the capital of his kingdom in 1350 and absorbed Sukhothai, 640 km to the north, in 1376. Over the next four centuries the kingdom expanded to become the nation of Siam, whose borders were roughly those of modern Thailand, except for the north, the Kingdom of Lannathai. Ayutthaya was friendly towards foreign traders, including the Chinese, Indians, Japanese and Persians, and later the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, British and French, permitting them to set up villages outside the city walls. The court of King Narai (1656-1688) had strong links with that of King Louis XIV of France, whose ambassadors compared the city in size and wealth to Paris.
2.Historical overview
Buddha head overgrown by fig tree in Wat Mahatat, Ayutthaya historical park
The Siamese state based at Ayutthaya in the valley of the Chao Phraya River grew from the earlier kingdom of Lopburi, which it absorbed, and its rise continued the steady shift southwards of the centre of gravity of the Tai-speaking peoples. U Thong was an adventurer allegedly descended from a rich Chinese merchant family who married royalty. In 1350, to escape the threat of an epidemic, he moved his court south into the rich floodplain of the Chao Phraya. On an island in the river he founded a new capital, which he called Ayutthaya, after Ayodhya in northern India, the city of the hero Rama in the Hindu epic Ramayana. U Thong assumed the royal name of Ramathibodi (1350-69).
Ramathibodi tried to unify his kingdom. In 1360 he declared Theravada Buddhism the official religion of Ayutthaya and brought members of a sangha, a Buddhist monastic community, from Ceylon to establish new religious orders and spread the faith among his subjects. He also compiled a legal code, based on the Indian Dharmashastra (a Hindu legal text) and Thai custom, which became the basis of royal legislation. Composed in Pali -- an Indo-Aryan language closely related to Sanskrit and the language of the Theravada Buddhist scriptures -- it had the force of divine injunction. Supplemented by royal decrees, Ramathibodi's legal code remained generally in force until the late nineteenth century.
By the end of the fourteenth century, Ayutthaya was regarded as the strongest power in southeast Asia, but it lacked the manpower to dominate the region. In the last year of his reign, Ramathibodi had seized Angkor during what was to be the first of many successful Thai assaults on the Khmer capital. The policy was aimed at securing Ayutthaya's eastern frontier by preempting Vietnamese designs on Khmer territory. The weakened Khmer periodically submitted to Ayutthaya's suzerainty, but efforts to maintain control over Angkor were repeatedly frustrated. Thai troops were frequently diverted to suppress rebellions in Sukhothai or to campaign against Chiang Mai, where Ayutthaya's expansion was tenaciously resisted. Eventually Ayutthaya subdued the territory that had belonged to Sukhothai, and the year after Ramathibodi died, his kingdom was recognized by the emperor of China's newly established Ming Dynasty as Sukhothai's rightful successor.
The Thai kingdom was not a single, unified state but rather a patchwork of self-governing principalities and tributary provinces owing allegiance to the king of Ayutthaya under the mandala system. These states were ruled by members of the royal family of Ayutthaya who had their own armies and warred among themselves. The king had to be vigilant to prevent royal princes from combining against him or allying with Ayutthaya's enemies. Whenever the succession was in dispute, princely governors gathered their forces and moved on the capital to press their claims.
During much of the fifteenth century Ayutthaya's energies were directed toward the Malay Peninsula, where the great trading port of Malacca contested its claims to sovereignty. Malacca and other Malay states south of Tambralinga had become Muslim early in the century, and thereafter Islam served as a symbol of Malay solidarity against the Thais. Although it failed to make a vassal state of Malacca, Ayutthaya continued to control the lucrative trade on the isthmus, which attracted Chinese traders of specialty goods for the luxury markets of China.
Ruins of the old city, Ayutthaya, after the Burmese invasion.
In 1767, Burma invaded Siam, totally destroying Ayutthaya and ending the era of the proud nation of Siam. It was one of many invasions throughout the history of Siam, from neighboring Burma, which was the mightiest of all in South East Asia at the time
3.List of rulers of Ayutthaya
Uthong Dynasty (first reign)
Ramathibodi I or Uthong (formerly Prince Uthong) 1350-1369
Ramesuan 1369-1370 (abdicated)
Suphannaphum Dynasty (first reign)
Borommaracha I (Pa-ngua) 1370-1388
Thong Chan 1388
Uthong Dynasty (second reign)
Ramesuan 1388-1395 (restored)
Ramaratcha 1395-1409
Suphannaphum Dynasty (second reign)
Inthararatcha 1409-1424
Borommaratcha II (Samphraya) 1424-1448
Boromtrailokanat 1448-1488
Borommaratcha III (Inthararatcha II) 1488-1491
Ramathibodi II (1491-1529)
Borommaratcha IV 1529-1533
Ratsada 1533; child king
Chairacha 1534-1546
Yotfa (joint regent 1546-1548); child king & Queen Si Sudachan
Worawongsa 1548
Chakkraphat (ruled 1548-1568) & Queen Suriyothai (d.1548)
Mahin 1568-1569
Sukhothai Dynasty
Maha Thammaracha (Sanpet I) 1569-1590
Naresuan the Great (Sanpet II) 1590-1605
Ekathotsarot (Sanpet III) 1605-1610
Si Saowaphak (Sanpet IV) 1610-1611
Songtham (Intharacha) 1611-1628
Chethha 1628-1629
Atitthayawong 1629; child but titled Somdet Phra
Prasat Thong Dynasty
Prasat Thong (Sanpet V) 1630-1655
Chai (Sanpet VI) 1655
Suthammaracha (Sanpet VII) 1655
Narai the Great 1656-1688
Ban Phlu Luang Dynasty
Petratcha 1688-1703
Süa (Sanpet VIII, also known as Luang Sorasak or 'The Tiger King') 1703-1709
Phumintharacha (Sanpet IX, Thai Sa) 1709-1733
Boromakot (Boromarachathirat III) 1733-1758
Uthumpon (Boromarachathirat IV) 1758
Suriyamarin or Ekkathat (Boromarachathirat V) 1758-1767
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