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Owing to the lack of reliable records, very little is know about Myanmar’s early history. Legends relate that a king of the Mons, a people who had apparently migrated into Lower Myanmar from the Southeast, built the Shwedagon Pagoda on the Site of modern Rangoon during the lifetime of the Buddha (6th Century BC).
Another legend, that the 3rd Century BC Indian Emperor Ashoka (or Asoka), a devout Buddhist, Sent monks to Thaton, a Mon Settlement in Lower Burma on the Gulf of Martaban, Suggest that they had early centacts with the Indian subcontinent by sea. Indian ships docked at Thaton,Pegu (now Bago), and other Lower Burma ports, and the region became an outpost of Indian Civilisation. India’s chief contribution to Myanmar Culfure was Buddhism, and over life and national identity revolved.
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