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This empire peaked in A.D. 1200 in modern Cambodia, thriving on rice production and trade with China and India.  The Khmer empire built the Angkor Wat, a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu with mixed Southeast Asian and Indian art.

This empire peaked in A.D. 1200 in modern Cambodia, thriving on rice production and trade with China and India.  The Khmer empire built the Angkor Wat, a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu with mixed Southeast Asian and Indian art.

The Siamese, the residents of the modern Thailand (called “Siam” until 1939), destroyed the Khmer empire with conquests up until the 14th century.  But “Khmer Republic” came back as the official name for Cambodia in 1970-75, and the “Khmer Rouge” was a Cambodian communist movement that savagely killed about 2 million Cambodians in the 1970s and destroyed much of the nation after the United States left nearby Vietnam.  Later Vietnam communists invaded and overthrew the Cambodian communists.

The Siamese, which is the name for the residents of the modern Thailand (called “Siam” until 1939), destroyed the Khmer empire with conquests up until the 14th century.  But “Khmer Republic” came back as the official name for Cambodia in 1970-75.

 

The “Khmer Rouge” was a Cambodian communist movement that savagely killed about 2 million Cambodians in the 1970s and destroyed much of the nation after the United States left nearby Vietnam.  Later, Vietnam communists invaded and overthrew the Cambodian communists.

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