Based on the information present in the given passage, you need to write a correct answer to the given question. A correct answer is one that correctly and completely answers the question. Do not write answers that address the question partially or incorrectly. The correct answer must be contained in the given paragraph.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Over the centuries, the living here has always been easy enough to attract a steady stream of immigrants.
Sent 2: Bountiful food sources might have made Malaysia an inviting place for the contemporaries of Java Manin 230,000 b.c.
Sent 3: But thus far, the country's earliest traces of homo sapiens, found in the Niah Caves of northern Sarawak, are fragments of a skull dating to 40,000 b.c.
Sent 4: On the peninsula, the oldest human-related relics (10,000 b.c.
Sent 5: ) are Stone Age tools of the Negritos.
Sent 6: These small, dark Melanesians are related in type to Australian aborigines and are confined today to the forests of the northern highlands.
Sent 7: By 2,000 b.c.
Sent 8: , these timid, gentle nomads hunting with bow and arrow were driven back from the coasts by waves of sturdy immigrants arriving in outrigger canoes equipped with sails.
Sent 9: Mongolians from South China and Polynesian and Malay peoples from the Philippines and the Indonesian islands settled along the rivers of the peninsula and northern Borneo.
Sent 10: They practiced a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet, a technique that exhausted the soil and imposed a semi-nomadic existence from one jungle clearing to another.
Sent 11: Families lived in wooden longhouses like those still to be seen today among the Iban peoples of Sarawak.
Sent 12: Another unit was added on to the communal dwelling each time a marriage created a new family.
Sent 13: Other tough migrants from the South Seas settled along the coastssailors, fishermen, traders (for the most part pirates)known euphemistically as orang laut (sea people).
Question: Who used to practice a slash-and-burn agriculture of yams and millet?.
Malay peoples from the Philippines.

Paragraph- Sent 1: Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals .
Sent 2: The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil .
Sent 3: A young boy pulls the spear from the ground while pocketing a rabbit foot talisman .
Sent 4: He starts to play with the spear .
Sent 5: A Comanche catches the boy , and startled , he runs away with the rabbit's foot .
Sent 6: The Native American places the spear back , realizing too late that the rabbits foot is now gone .
Sent 7: After that , white men come and start drilling for oil .
Sent 8: Skip to current time , a divorced father , Mance Cashen , moves to the area with his new wife , baby , and his son from his first marriage , Willy ( played by ( ( Chris Miller , who is visiting .
Sent 9: Willy notices something peculiar in the house and tries to warn his father and step-mother .
Sent 10: They do not believe him .
Sent 11: Willy is attacked while on a tire swing over a small water hole .
Sent 12: The creature grabs his foot and Willy struggles , eventually getting away .
Sent 13: He eventually befriends the local drunk , T. C. van Houten .
Sent 14: A nice old man with some bad memories who knows something about the evil near the oil well and was in a situation similar to Willy's .
Sent 15: In the meantime a Comanche Indian , Chief Sam John , comes to warn Mance of the evil and the need to keep it contained .
Sent 16: Sam John informs Mance the evil was originally intended to stop the white man , but it is indiscriminate in whom it kills instead .
Sent 17: Mance will have none of it .
Sent 18: Willy eventually takes a spear he finds on his property to Sam John and tries to find out what is going on .
Question: What does the little boy pull from the ground?.
Protective Spear.

Paragraph- Sent 1: The Glory of Melaka: In the early days, if you were not a pirate or a mosquito, Melaka was not much of a place to live.
Sent 2: The land was infertile, just a swampy plain, the river small and sluggish.
Sent 3: But it had a sheltered harbor, protected from the monsoons by neighboring Sumatra.
Sent 4: Later, the strategic location and deep-water channel close to the coast brought in the bigger vessels of the trade-wind traffic crossing the Indian Ocean.
Sent 5: The first to realize the larger commercial potential, as so often throughout the country's subsequent history, were the Chinese.
Sent 6: In 1409, under a new directive from Emperor Chu Ti to pursue trade in the South Seas and the Indian Ocean, a Chinese fleet of 50 ships headed by Admiral Cheng Ho called in at Melaka.
Sent 7: They made Parameswara an offer he could not refuse: port facilities and an annual financial tribute in exchange for Chinese protection against the marauding Thais.
Sent 8: In 1411, Parameswara took the money to Beijing himself, and the emperor gratefully made him a vassal king.
Sent 9: Twenty years later, the Chinese withdrew again from the South Seas trade.
Sent 10: The new ruler of Melaka, Sri Maharajah, switched his allegiance to the Muslim trading fraternity by marrying into the Muslim faith, wedding the daughter of a sultan in Sumatra.
Sent 11: Islam won its place in Malaya not by conquestas had been the case in North Africa and Europebut by trade, dynastic alliances, and peaceful preaching.
Sent 12: Bengali peddlers had already brought the faith to the east coast.
Sent 13: In Melaka and throughout the peninsula, Islam thrived as a strong, male-dominated religion of individuality, offering dynamic leadership and preaching brotherhood and self-relianceall qualities ideally suited to the coastal trade.
Sent 14: At the same time, Sufi mystics synthesized Islamic teaching with local Malay traditions of animistic magic and charisma, though Islam did not become the state religion until Muzaffar Shah became sultan of Melaka (14461459).
Sent 15: But the key figure in the sultanate was Tun Perak, bendahara (prime minister) and military commander.
Sent 16: He expanded Melaka's power along the west coast and down to Singapore and the neighboring Bintan islands.
Sent 17: He also had orang laut pirates patrolling the seas to extort tribute from passing ships.
Sent 18: After Ailied district chiefs had repelled assaults from Thai-controlled armies from Pahang, Tun Perak personally led a famous victory over a Thai fleet off Batu Pahat in 1456.
Question: What did Sri Maharajah do that contributed to Islam winning its place in Malaya?.
By marrying into muslim faith.