After Vasco da Gama found the sea route to India, Portugal built a network of forts and ports across the Indian Ocean, governed from Goa. The Portuguese took Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate in 1510 and moved their viceroyal capital there from Cochin in 1530. The harbour of Bombay, then called Bom Bahia, was Portuguese from 1535 until it was ceded to England in 1661 as part of the dowry of Catherine de Braganza. Portugal's holdings on the Indian west coast later shrank to Goa, Daman and Diu. India annexed Goa in December 1961, and Portugal recognised Indian control only in a 1974 treaty after its own revolution.

Israeli reports also say the cabinet directed the military to prepare for a possible new attack on Iran.

Angkor, near Siem Reap in northern Cambodia, was the capital of the Khmer Empire, which ruled much of mainland Southeast Asia between roughly the 9th and 15th centuries. At its height the city spread across about 3,000 square kilometres, making it the largest pre-industrial city on Earth by area. Its growth depended on water: huge reservoirs called barays, along with canals and embankments, stored monsoon rain and carried it to rice fields. That system let farmers harvest more than once a year and fed a very large population through the dry season. The temple complex of Angkor Wat, built in the early 12th century, is the best-known monument and still stands at the heart of the park.