{"id":3994,"date":"2020-05-08T20:34:20","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/?page_id=3994"},"modified":"2020-05-08T20:34:20","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T20:34:20","slug":"teachable-cambodia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/resources\/educators\/teachable-cambodia\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachable Cambodia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>General Cambodia Teaching and Learning Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Resource:<\/strong> CultureGrams\u2013You probably already know that CultureGrams is a reliable way to access basic information about countries, including maps, images, videos, interviews, economic data and histories. To access the CultureGrams website, log in to your Seattle Public Library account and visit <a href=\"https:\/\/seattle.bibliocommons.com\/item\/show\/2469372030\"><u>this page<\/u><\/a>. Navigate to either the \u201cWorld\u201d or \u201cKids\u201d version of the Cambodia CultureGram.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/Cambodia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3999 size-half\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/Cambodia-375x455.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/Cambodia-375x455.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/Cambodia-247x300.jpg 247w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/Cambodia.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Activity:<\/strong>\u00a0Data literacy: Use the \u201cBuild-Your-Own Graphs and Tables\u201d tool to generate content applicable to your classroom. Try comparing Cambodia to the US or to the countries with which it shares borders: Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. The data in the graphs and tables comes from the CIA World Fact Book.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia is the size of Oklahoma but at 12\u00b0 north of the equator, it would sit at about the same latitude as Nicaragua in Central America.\u00a0 In comparison, the southernmost point in the United States is at 24\u2070 latitude, or twice as far north of the equator.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Language Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The national language of Cambodia is Khmer. For a brief history, see the <a href=\"http:\/\/sealang.net\/mk\/khmeric.htm\">SEAlang Khmer Project<\/a>, part of the SEAlang Library established in 2005, with primary funding from the U.S. Department of Education.\u00a0 The Library provides language reference materials for Southeast Asia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Long before the rise and fall of the great mainland empires of Funan (ca. first to sixth century CE), Dvaravati (sixth to eleventh century CE), and Angkor (ninth to fifteenth century CE), Mon-Khmer languages were the <em>lingua franca<\/em> of Southeast Asia.\u00a0 They are as key to interpreting Asia&#8217;s cultural, political, and economic history as Greek, Latin, or Gothic are to understanding Europe.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ancient Empires and Mathematics<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3997\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 375px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3997 size-half\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232-e1588877954970-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232-e1588877954970-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232-e1588877954970-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232-e1588877954970-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232-e1588877954970-750x1000.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232-e1588877954970-1140x1520.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151232-e1588877954970.jpg 1932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The doorjamb is on display at the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. Photo credit: Shannon Bush<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A broken doorjamb engraved with lines of Pre-Angkorian Khmer writing dated to 682-83 AD was found at a site on the Mekong in Kratie Province in 1891.\u00a0 Part of the inscription contains a date\u2014605 of the \u015aaka era\u2014which comprises the first known material use of zero as a decimal figure.\u00a0 The numerals are from the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, the most common system for the representation of numbers throughout the world today.\u00a0 First developed between the first and fourth centuries CE in India, the doorjamb proves it was in use among the Khmer two centuries before it was adopted by Islamic mathematicians (ca. 9<sup>th<\/sup> century) and at least 400 years before it spread to medieval Europe.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4002\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 375px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4002 size-half\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470-375x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470-375x500.jpg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470-750x1000.jpg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470-1140x1520.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/csead\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/20200116_151305-e1588968424470.jpg 1932w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Top portion of doorjamb, showing inscriptions. Photo Credit: Shannon Bush<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The use of zero can be a hard concept to understand. The idea of nothingness and emptiness has inspired and puzzled mathematicians, physicists, and even philosophers. What does empty space mean? If the space is empty, does it have any physical meaning or purpose?<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the origin of the number zero <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/history-of-zero\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Golden Age of Angkor <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Angkor, the capital of the Khmer Empire from the ninth to the fifteenth century, was a major power center in Southeast Asia.\u00a0 Located near Tonle Sap lake, it grew rapidly between 950 \u2013 1150 to become the most extensive low-density, agricultural-based urban center in the world.\u00a0 Famous for its temple complexes Angkor Wat (c. 1140) and Angkor Thom (c. 1200), it also featured a complex hydraulic system that relied on cooperation between communities for operation.\u00a0 At its peak, as many as two million people may have lived there, or more than 5% of the total Southeast Asian population at the time.\u00a0 The cause of Angkor\u2019s collapse sometime between the 14<sup>th<\/sup> and 17<sup>th<\/sup> centuries is a subject of debate, but scientific evidence points to climate change\u2014extreme monsoons interspersed with decades-long droughts\u2014as a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top Resource:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virtualangkor.com\">Virtual Angkor<\/a> is a groundbreaking collaboration between Virtual History Specialists, Archaeologists and Historians designed to bring the Cambodian metropolis of Angkor to life. Built for the classroom, it has been created to take students into a 3D world and to use this simulation to ask questions about Angkor\u2019s place in larger networks of trade and diplomacy, its experience with climate variability and the structure of power and kingship that underpinned the city.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Angkor and and the different factors leading to its collapse\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/the-collapse-of-angkor-171627\">here<\/a>. For a thorough examination of the climate factors contributing to Angkor&#8217;s downfall, click <a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/seac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/05\/Climate-as-Contributing-Factor-Demise-Angkor.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Cambodia Teaching and Learning Resources Top Resource: CultureGrams\u2013You probably already know that CultureGrams is a reliable way to access basic information about countries, including maps, images, videos, interviews, economic data and histories. To access the CultureGrams website, log in to your Seattle Public Library account and visit this page. 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