Cambodia History

Cambodia was probably first occupied by people australoïdes, delayed or infiltrated by groups from the North, "Indonesian" and before the Mon Khmer not settle themselves. Through the Paleolithic leaving very few traces of their passage, these people gradually disséminèrent throughout Southeast Asia.
This division allowed them to live from hunting and gathering but also to develop the rice as well as original civilization called "cities round" or mimotien the name of the first site recognized MIMOT. These cities had a construction plan with circular wall surrounded by moats and were of the current in Cambodia's Mekong Delta, south and to the Se Mun valley in present-day Thailand, in the North.

In the early centuries of the Christian era, this whole region is under strong Indian influences, cultural, religious, linguistic, social and artistic borrowed and then adapted and transformed by the Khmer civilization. Meanwhile, Chinese texts speak of the Indochinese peninsula as the kingdom of Funan, born from the first century through a maritime trade along the coasts of Southeast Asia, with the active trader Roman empires , Indian and Chinese. Five centuries later, the kingdom was "Indianized" and probably saw the first pre-Angkorian buildings rise at Angkor Borei.

From the end of the sixth century, "Zhenla replaces the state of Funan in the relationship with China. Located further north than the Funan, the Zhenla extended from the current northern Cambodia and also emglobait southern Laos and the territory between the river and Se Mun Dangrêks Range in the north-east of the current Thailand. Among the many sites due to the time, that of Sambor Prei Kuk was kept in relatively good condition most of these monuments.

Until the end of the VIII °, a fragmentation of power led to several royal lineages to coexist until the advent of Jayavarman II, unifying the country and sanctity of Indian title, "crakavartin on Phnom Kulen in 802. Continue click here: Cambodia History the foundation of Angkor

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