The second site that I am bring you to will be the Bronze statues along the Singapore River. These stautes, although they may be just statues, are rather important to the Singapore History as they show the jobs of the past and the different type of workers Singapore had in the past, those paving the way to make it possible to have present-day Singapore. The jobs featured here are coolies,malay hawkers,malay shopkeepers and indian money lenders. The coolies are hired and are paid to do their jobs for example, carrying sacks of rice,helping to carry the items that they need to build.
This is important because without them, the businesses would not have been able to been carried out as they bring the goods for the businesses to run. All these statues have had a part to play in Singapore's history as they were all essential to ancient Singapore. They helped to run the economy. The reason why the statues are located along the Singapore river is because that was where most trade and stalls were located in ancient Singapore.
This is also located near the Raffles Landing Site as that was where most trading places was set up at that time due to the fact that since Raffles landed in Singapore, the trading places were always set up there.
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