The Amulets of Power VI
Copyright© 2024 by Uncle Jim
Prologue
This story takes place in a Parallel Universe. The arrival of the six Amulets on Earth is the separation point between our universe and the one in which the story takes place. This occurred about fifty years before the founding of the Chakri Dynasty in Thailand (6 April 1782).
Thanks to the presence of the Amulets, Thai kings had much more influence in the Karen and Shan states on their northern and western borders between Siam and Myanmar (Burma). Consequently, the British eventually took over a much smaller Burma than in our universe, and the Karen and the majority of the Shan states were eventually joined to Thailand.
The French, though they took over much of southern, or Lower Lao (Laos), did not acquire the Luang Prabang and Black Thai kingdoms in the north of Laos. They also got a much smaller Cambodia, known as Lower Cambodia. The Thai retained the land there that they had ruled for over a hundred years.
In the south, on the peninsula, militant Muslims from the Malaysia Sultanates, the most troublesome of which had been ceded to Britain, found it difficult to cross the Thai border thanks to the Amulets. Those who persisted died mysteriously in the jungle. Those Muslims already there were strongly encouraged to be peaceful.
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