THE WHOLE HISTORY OF CAMBODIA 
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Welcome to Countries Facts so Today in this Article I will show you the whole history of Cambodia Southeast Asia and here is Cambodia now Paul doll shall we it isn't known when Cambodia was first inhabited but bones found in Sam Ronson indicate that the ancients closely resembled modern Cambodians they gathered in villages and fished and herded pigs and water buffalo and grew rice some even think rice cultivation started here all of course subject to the weather's whims and there wasn't much to do in the wet season when the monsoons dictated the terms now at some time no one knows when Indian culture began tiptoeing into Cambodia and finding a welcome home the people even took to wearing turbans rather than straw petit hats by the 500s ad India had given Cambodia a religion a written script a system of absolute monarchy as well as their brand of architecture astronomy and more now while there was a comfortable elite class the commoners did not live so daintily the Chinese described them as ugly with frizzy hair they where neither clothing nor shoes cambodia became a mighty power with the rise of the Khmer Empire and yes that is how it's pronounced this Hindu Buddhist state was supported by the rice farming messes and slaves who propped up an elite class fond of parading about in gold on their elephants launching military campaigns and building big things and the Khmer artists and architects were indeed highly skilled amid the usual pernicious power struggles in palace politics there arose sewer vermin ii who built the biggest religious building in the world Angkor Wat the apex of Khmer architecture likely meant to be a mausoleum Angkor Wat is a staggering feat of construction and artistry an immense silent ceremony of sandstone encircled by a mile of bow reliefs of gods and goals and lotuses topped by pinecone towers jave arm on the seventh was the king during the Empire's prime and after him the state slowly lessened in power sri lankan monks introduced to tera vaada buddhism which would become the main religion of the country the empires exhausting wars against neighbors like Siam saw it decline and died in the 1400s setting up shop somewhere else only for that to be destroyed as well by Siamese forces angered by Cambodian incursions into their land Cambodia's days of glory were long gone it's mighty temples of stone were neglected and forgotten and swallowed by the jungle by the 19th century humbled cambodia was divided up between siam and vietnam this King Norodom to agree to make Cambodia a protectorate of France thus salvaging his nation from Geographic deletion so Cambodia became a piece of French Indochina the French abolished slavery and introduced modern technologies and medicine which resulted in a massive growth in population the Second World War saw the Japanese occupation of Cambodia after which Cambodia moved for and eventually won its independence in 1953 the King kept his country neutral during the Cold War and deposed US airstrikes on targets in his territory during the Vietnam War he was ousted in a coup after the ensuing civil war the country was under the rule of the Cambodian communists or Khmer Rouge led by Pol Pot educated in Paris he was introduced to Marxism and little did his circle of intellectual friends know that he would become one of the century's most ruthless dictators like many disciples of Marx Pol Pot had a lot of bright ideas and not a lot of patience to implement them an atheist he outlawed all religions and dreamed of returning Cambodia to its agrarian past and therefore banned everything Western even medicine and emptied the cities forcing the people to toil on collective farms the total number of deaths from forced labor starvation torture disease and execution in the infamous killing fields was about 2 million or 1/4 of the whole country's population but then Cambodia foolishly attacked a Vietnam and Vietnam invaded Pol Pot fled and Vietnam occupied the country until 1992 though that craziness has stopped Cambodia still languishes under a dictatorship and the country is one of the world's most corrupt suffering from widespread poverty but the economy has grown and several million people travel here annually gazing upon those marvelous wonders from long ago when this country ruled an empire here's hoping Cambodia sees better days but until then Goodbye
