The most important and influential period during Cambodia's ancient history was that of the Khmer Empire rule starting around 802 AD and lasting as long as 1431. ... This sense of nationalism resulted in the French losing their foothold within Cambodia during the Second World War and consequently led to the independence of Cambodia in 1953. ... Furthermore, during this time, unrealistic economic and production goals were set, with farmers being told to produce around three tons of rice per hectare of land (Cambodia Tribunal Monitor). This horrific time period came to an end during the lat...

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In the Northeast and Old Northwest, rapid transportation improvements and immigration hastened the collapse of an older yeoman and artisan economy and its replacement by cash-crop agriculture and capitalist manufacturing. In the South, the cotton boom revived a flagging plantation slave economy, which spread to occupy the best lands of the region. ... And increasingly after the War of 1812, government policy seemed to combine the worst of both old and new, favoring the kinds of centralized, broad constructionist, top-down forms of economic development that many thought would aid men of establi...

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