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"Through Islamic contacts and growing trade links, parts of southeast Asia were drawn more fully into the mainstream of world history than ever before, another spcific illustration of civilization's general spread during the centuries after the classical age.
Thus, this period holds a signifcant place in southern Asian history."
このholdってどう訳せばいいんでしょうか?
お礼
ありがとうございます。