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Majapahit's Elephant Corps: War, Trade, and the Jungle's Edge
When Hayam Wuruk's envoys rode out from Trowulan, they often traveled with an escort of war elephants — beasts that were at once symbols of kingship, engines of terror, and living links between the Javanese heartland and the wider Indian Ocean world. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the elephant's path through Majapahit: from the forested slopes of Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula, where elephants were trapped and trained, to the royal stables in the capital, where they thundered in processions and on campaign. They examine the practical economics of keeping a herd — the fodder…
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