Angkor Wat
In Our Time: History
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The D Decmi Uncle to the Modern Cambodia
The contrast between the grandeur of uncle, thes large stone monuments, and the contemporary cambodiain inthe nineteenth century was so sharp that through the eyes of t te colonial explorers, theras no way modern cambodia could build these temples. So that came the dea of lost, lost civilization, the degenerated race from the d decmi uncle to the modern cambody. But that was the colonial ideal, because that a idealogy of an plored civilizations,. The civilization that was in need of french colonial help to restore it back to its glory. In competition with with the british possession of india, drove the french a colonization to camb
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