Khmers

In these precincts, the race called the Khmers lived a life of luxury, pomp and display, which has not been exceeded at any time in any part of the world.

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For the French, the Khmers were a “decadent” people, whose glory days were in the long-vanished past.

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(Yuon) Lieutenant-General Phan Thach Van also calls Khmers "Ill-natured barbarians, ill-natured blood, Khmers have traits of stupidity, idiot, illogic.

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We cannot address this issue here, but to understand the facts, it is helpful to know that the Khmers organized the places they inhabited bit by bit, and that their irrigation works, which we will examine in depth, made them livable and perhaps prosperous.

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For many Khmers in the early period of the tricolour, it was a pile ofold stones, but they came to see it as the central symbol of a newly-minted sense of nationhood.

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As for nonscholars, a good way to appreciate the Khmers 'distinctive style is by taking a detour into the museum's permanent collection.

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The Khmers exported their natural bounty to China and other neighbors.

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Yet while the French physically appro­priated the monuments and incorporated them as a central part of their discourse on colonialism and misunderstood their original purpose the modern Khmers themselves took over that body of ideas and gave it a nationalist twist.

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Close to the center, the Khmers created an artificial island where they constructed a “Mebon” temple i.e. a temples situated in the center of a Baray.

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