Continued 1st chapter

In 1279 with the entrance of the third governor Phokhun Ram Khamhaeng, that led the destinies between 1275 and 1317, a treaty of war that officialized the teaching of muay thai came into force. This technique began to be taught along with other existing fighting techniques. The Kingdom of Shukhothai expanded and extended its power southward to the Malaysian peninsula, to the West as far as Burma is today, and to the Northeast as far as Laos is today. The thais, also called Siamese, had already assimilated various ethnic and cultural elements of other peoples of the region. To govern and transmit education to its people, the leaders were inspired by Buddhist models. Shukhothai born in 1298 was considered the first Thai state, but with the death of its governor in 1298 and the decay of the Khmer Empire, was forced to integrate into the new Kingdom of Ayutthaya in 1438. After this integration, Ayutthaya reached a lot of power soon. It employed new management techniques inherited from the Khmer State, among them the divinization of rulers, quickly generating a bureaucratization of society and a rigid hierarchy. The wars spread and the dominated territory from Ayutthaya grew, reaching close limits of what is now Thailand. This situation has led to the increase of battle fronts, eroding the army and the populations. After many fights in 1569, the Burmese occupied Zion and turned Ayutthaya into a dependent state. The Thais were once again dominated and only fifteen years later they were released again. It was Prince Naresuan's task to regain the independence of Zion, becoming a national hero. Naresuan reigned between 1590 and 1604 and recruited young people of his age to train with them, instilling them loyalty and resistance, thus managing to form brave warriors. The king personally chose the Patrol Regiment to accompany him to the guerrillas, who himself was the regiment with whom he counted, to free Thailand from Burmese rule. When the Burmese army invaded and razed Ayutthaya, the archives of Thai history were lost and with them most of the early history of muay thai. The little we know today comes from Burmese writings, from the Cambodians, from some chronicles of the Kingdom of Lanna-Chiangmai and from the first Europeans who arrived in the East.