Dark ages of Cambodia

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Dark ages of Cambodia covers Khmer history from the nineteenth century to the nineteenth century as a period of decline and loss of territory. Cambodia has peace for a while in the glorious era of time during the nineteenth century because the King of the country, which he has built his capital in the region southeast of the Tonle Sap along the Mekong River, which promote trade with other parts of Asia. This was the period when Spanish and Portuguese adventurers and missionaries first visited the country. But the conquest of the new Siam Capital in Longvek in 1594 defined the purpose of the changes the country and became a pawn in competition effects between the two countries, which is gradually growing power Siam and Vietnam. The resettlement of the Vietnamese in the Mekong Delta has led to the area by the end of the seventeenth century to the Vietnamese territory. Since then, Cambodia had lost the most fertile land and cut off from the sea. Thus, foreign encroachments continued until the first half of the nineteenth century afterwards, the Vietnamese also vowed to devour Khmer territory and forced to Cambodia into Vietnamese culture. [1]
Cambodia's struggle to survive 1432-1863
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Map of Asia in late 1400.
More than four centuries that have passed from converting throw Wasting Angkor nearby mid-15th century until the establishment of a protectorate under French rule in 1863, that period is regarded by historians as the ages of the country a period of calm economic, social and cultural, when the kingdom's internal affairs under the hands of their neighbors, Siam and Vietnam gradually. In the mid-19th century, Cambodia has become the goal of oxygen almost useless in the possession of influence between Siam and Vietnam, and probably will be devoured entirely by either or both also did not know if the French do not intervene given Cambodia a contract to live by the occupation as a colony of their bodies. [Citation needed] fear of losing dying nation and culture continued screenplay huge in the mindset of the Khmer modern and can help our understanding of the nationalist and xenophobic strong Khmer and also underlie support for the Khmer Rouge regime during the late 1970s as well. Founded in 1979, the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea, a Vietnamese state-controlled satellite allows us to clearly see the peak of Vietnam's stage of encroachments already well prepared through tactics since the seventeenth century onward.

Internal stages of gangrene and the gradual encroachment of foreign really fast and is strong evidence in the nineteenth century, when the Khmer influence. After the fall of Cambodia's Angkor Thom palace abandoned the area north of the Great Lake to Thailand and did not move back permanently, except for a brief interval in the late nineteenth century. Back then, however, the Khmer to build monumental buildings have also been stopped. Ancient beliefs such as Mahayana Buddhism and the cult of Hinduism is replaced by Theravada Buddhism and became Khmer cultural harmony and the same as the Siamese. This similarity did not obstructing afraid war between the two kingdoms. During the nineteenth century Khmer army undisputed advantage over Thailand with Burmese, Khmer and invaded the kingdom of Siam several times but still failed.

In the meantime, following the abandonment of Angkor Khmer few remaining survivors, including Siam's aid and also established a new capital was located several kilometers to the southeast in what is now known that this. The new power center located in the confluence of the Mekong and Tonle Sap River. Capital controlled trade along the river, which is the heartland of the country and the kingdom of Laos, and exit through the entrance of the Mekong Delta to the international trade route linking the Chinese coast through the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean. A new type of state and society appears more and more open to the outside world and confidence in the business sector as a source of wealth than the previous state which rests inside the mainland. Tomhamtomhat of maritime trade with China Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) provides an opportunity to take advantage of many of the honorable members Khmer trade exclusive control of the King. The launch of the EU in this area in the nineteenth century also promote the commercial sector as well.

First contacts with the West

Vietnamese chart a map of Cambodia in Portugal's 17th century panel
References first file in Europe in 1511 by the Portuguese.
Monday monarchy (1516-1566) King of Kings Khmer few major post-Angkorian He moved back to Phnom Penh Lovek. Portuguese and Spanish passengers who visit this city, a city located on the banks of the Tonle Sap River in the north described described the city as a place rich with great wealth. Many products out there, including battery swap precious metals, cotton and silk, incense, ivory, lacquer, livestock (including elephants), and rhinoceros (said by the Chinese pharmaceutical and energy rare). In the late nineteenth century and early seventeenth century Lovek progress of the business community, China, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the United Arab Emirates, Spain and Portugal. All community groups, to be joined later in the same century by Britain and the Netherlands.

During this period (1555-1556), the National Christian clergy Portuguese Senegal Gaspar - - Argentina (Gaspar da Cruz) efforts to introduce Christianity into the country for the first time. Through his own story his efforts failed completely because of the strong conviction on the Brahmins of the Princess and the ruling classes, but however short report created by the mission reflected respect reciprocity province at that time. [2]

Because of all the representatives of all nations, in fact, they were pirates, adventurers or traders, so that period is a period of stormy strong. With the intense pressure by the Siamese to stand back King Sattha 1 (1576-94) put to personal bodyguard around him, as mercenaries Spain and Portugal, and in 1593 he was asked to Spanish governor of the Philippines, came to help. Attracted by the outlook about the establishment of a protectorate Spain in Cambodia and transformed King into King of Christianity back to the governor then sent a force fleet, which has 120 people came, but Lovek fell Siamese already then they come in afterwards. Spain's advantage in strong turbulent situation to a son of his son King Sattha ascended the throne in 1597. The hope of making the country's colonial Spain were destroyed back since at that time they were massacred in Spain two years later without knowing the reason of hostilities on both sides by a group of mercenaries Malaysia.

However, Siam eventually involved in the attacks on the independence of Cambodia Vek occupation in 1594. With the posting of the Thai military governor in the political stage of rule by foreigners was established in the United Kingdom for the first time. Khmer chronicles describing the decline of Longvek is a disaster since then the country has not come back forever. Siam virtually ruled Cambodia for over 300 years, and eventually Wat also lost to France in 1907 after the occupation for more than 450