... Vietnamese seizure of the rich Mekong Delta from the declining state of Ankgor in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Founded in the seventh century, Ankgor, later to become Cambodia, was for several years the largest and most powerful state in mainland Southeast Asia. By the fifteenth century however, Ankgor was in a decline. Taking advantage of the situation, both Vietnam and Thailand confiscated ... was at least nominally Buddhist, with a mixture of Confucian, Taoist, and animalist beliefs. However, there were at least three million Catholics, whose ancestors were converted by F...

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... figure sticks out in terms of influence. This was Philip Guston, his work redefined the terms of painting for a whole generation of Americans. The settlement of northeastern America in the seventeenth century was done by iconoclasts. To them the word was law and the image just a delusion, except in family portraits. The idea that virtue may lie in the breaking of idols ... ...

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