In what general direction did islam spread through southeast asia

Islam started to spread into southeast asia through India. After that, a considerable amount of the population became muslims. While some muslims stayed in India and co-existed with Hindus, a large portion became traders and relocated to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and parts of the Philippines. Even though Spain and the Netherlands sucessfully converted a lot of the population of the Philippines and Indonesia to christianity, muslims represents the majority of the religion in the latter. There are still a large amount of muslims in India, second only to hinduism.

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n: