Monday, December 20, 2010

Cambodia

 Webstop #1
1. The Cambodian name is derived from the french word Cambodge.  Which means born of Kambu.
2. Khmer can refer to the Cambodian language, people, or culture.
3. The country was known as the Khmer Republic
4. The economy is dominated by wet rice agriculture.
5.  The Ancient capital of the Khmer Empire was Angkor, it is close to present-day Siem Reap.
6. The Khmer region
7. The dominant Khmer language belongs to the Austroasiatic language family and is related to Vietnamese, Mon, and other Asian languages.
8. The Angkor Wat is  the most important symbol in ancient Khmer.
9. Breakfast: rice porridge or rice noodles.
Lunch and Dinner: a combination of a spiced broth with fish or meat and vegetables, fish, fresh vegetables eaten with a fish-based paste, and stir-fried vegetables with chopped meat.
The staples are rice and fish.
Four Facts-Webstop #2
1. people earn their living (or attempt to) by dealing in trash, rubbish, and recyclable things.
2.The biggest holiday festival in Cambodia is the Cambodian New Year in April.
3.Everyone has some sort of small business in Cambodia.
4. A really large part of the Cambodian economy is focused on trash and garbage.  

Webstop #3


 

1 comment:

  1. Excellent work on your webquest

    What a thoughtful and solid response-your comment "feeling alone is similar to death" is interesting to consider and I think a lot of people would agree with you. Thanks for your response.

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