champa

The Champa kingdom used to rule majority of Vietnam and the South China Sea used to be called Champa Sea even in ancient Chinese chronicles [2].

Angkor came later, but evidence is scant regarding the nature of its relationship to other kingdoms such as Champa and Zhenla.

My gut feeling is that Champa was either playing the role of Singapore today or conquered Singapore, at the time of Pompeii.

The Chams has a proper civilization called Champa just like the Mayan civilization.

As such it follows that Indian systems of numeracy had also penetrated what is now central Vietnam (the Champa kingdom) and Indonesia (Srivijaya/Palembang).

Specifically, the Nag Champa in the Red box (not the blue box).

You've got: YumYum in Cary Thai Villa in Cary Thai Cafe in Durham Thaiphoon in Raleigh Champa in Raleigh Thai Palace in Chapel Hill etc., etc.

Fun facts, the Malay word garam for salt most probably come from the Roman word Garum, a very popular fermented fish sauce from an ancient Malay Champa kingdom [1].

They were the main inhabitants of the land for more than a thousand years (around 1500 years) and had a flourishing Champa kingdoms from 2nd to 16th century AD.

If I'm not mistaken the Vietnamese themselves still calling this particular fish sauce as Champa fish sauce, while the rest of the world call this Vietnamese fish sauce [3].

The higly contested South China Sea in the ancient days was called Champa Sea due the Champa Kingdom that once controlled more than half of modern Vietnam for more than a thousand years until the Nguyen warlords took over a few hundreds years ago [1].

The most similar sauce's ingredients to garum is the fish sauce from Vietnam and during the time of ancient Pompeii, Champa Empire was ruling the place and most of South East Asia [3].

The north-easternmost, Champa, was half-way up modern Vietnam, quite close to the border of modern China.

Champa language is a close relative to proto-malay and old-malay languages.

Champa was the major pre-Vietnamese society in Vietnam and Cambodia whose probable regional trading partners essentially correspond to the SEA cultural sphere currently using fish sauce.