By Anonymous
Since the reign of the mighty tyrant Genghis Khan, who would have ever thought the barbaric Mongols would ever become a peace loving nation we know today as Mongolia.
Their reign spread out almost half of the globe and infected the minds of the nations they conquered and left much of the side effects of similar personality to that of the Mongols. That side effect is the inheritance of a mindset of divide and conquer to achieve domination for expansion. If something big and strong, infiltrate, separate, divide, and invade. That is breaking a big chunk into small bits and consume the small bits. This is Mongols' recipe for success. This philosophy was and is quite useful and very successful.
The fall of the Khmer Empire had minor connection with the Mongols. By then, Kublai Khan, a great grandson of Genghis failed to achieve success of his great-grandfather. It is unclear whether the refugees sought protection with the Khmer were actually ethnic southern Chinese, the Tai/Syam or the work of Kublai Khan men or a converted Mongol Chinese. The Tai/Syam were rumor to be tough fighting warriors.
Chou Ta Kuan, an ambassador to Khmer Empire from China (Mongols' state?) may not be Chinese after all but a Mongol spy. He could possibly wanted to know what was it that made Khmer succeeded in repelling the Chams/Champa invasion ending in Khmer conquering Champa. Soon enough, in 14th century rebellions broke out in the Khmer Empire, the kingdom of Sukothai/Ayuttaya(Siem) emerged creating a foundation of the modern day Thailand. The emergence of Siem slowly keeping Khmer divide and at war. At the same time, Annam (Vietnam) was slowly working its way into Champa after Khmer withdrew. In mid 17th century Champa was swallowed up by Annam and again slowly worked its way into Cambodia which is now a much smaller and weaker kingdom.
History have proven over and over again, a nation that WAS strong WAS weakened by its own weight, a nation that IS strong WILL BE weakened by its own weight. LEARN FOR THE PAST FOR FUTURE PEACE.
Since the reign of the mighty tyrant Genghis Khan, who would have ever thought the barbaric Mongols would ever become a peace loving nation we know today as Mongolia.
Their reign spread out almost half of the globe and infected the minds of the nations they conquered and left much of the side effects of similar personality to that of the Mongols. That side effect is the inheritance of a mindset of divide and conquer to achieve domination for expansion. If something big and strong, infiltrate, separate, divide, and invade. That is breaking a big chunk into small bits and consume the small bits. This is Mongols' recipe for success. This philosophy was and is quite useful and very successful.
The fall of the Khmer Empire had minor connection with the Mongols. By then, Kublai Khan, a great grandson of Genghis failed to achieve success of his great-grandfather. It is unclear whether the refugees sought protection with the Khmer were actually ethnic southern Chinese, the Tai/Syam or the work of Kublai Khan men or a converted Mongol Chinese. The Tai/Syam were rumor to be tough fighting warriors.
Chou Ta Kuan, an ambassador to Khmer Empire from China (Mongols' state?) may not be Chinese after all but a Mongol spy. He could possibly wanted to know what was it that made Khmer succeeded in repelling the Chams/Champa invasion ending in Khmer conquering Champa. Soon enough, in 14th century rebellions broke out in the Khmer Empire, the kingdom of Sukothai/Ayuttaya(Siem) emerged creating a foundation of the modern day Thailand. The emergence of Siem slowly keeping Khmer divide and at war. At the same time, Annam (Vietnam) was slowly working its way into Champa after Khmer withdrew. In mid 17th century Champa was swallowed up by Annam and again slowly worked its way into Cambodia which is now a much smaller and weaker kingdom.
History have proven over and over again, a nation that WAS strong WAS weakened by its own weight, a nation that IS strong WILL BE weakened by its own weight. LEARN FOR THE PAST FOR FUTURE PEACE.
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