Countries: Laos

Laos?is a country?in?Southeast Asia. It is bordered by?Myanmar?and?China the northwest,?Vietnam?to the east,?Cambodia?to the southeast, and Thailand to the west and southwest.

Laos traces its history to the kingdom of Lan Xang, which was founded in the 13th century by a Lao prince,?Fa Ngum, whose father had his family exiled from the?Khmer Empire.

The geography Lan Xang would occupy had been originally settled by indigenous Austroasiatic-speaking?tribes, such as?Khmuic peoples?and?Vietic peoples.

The Khmuic are believed to have migrated by land from China to Laos. The Vietic peoples are believed to have also migrated from China to Laos and Vietnam through the Mekong, where they had settled for at least 4,500 years.

The?Khmer Empire?was a Hindu-Buddhist empire centered what is now northern Cambodia. Known as?Kambuja by its inhabitants, it grew out of the former civilization of?Chenla (c. 802-1431).

The History of the Chinese?Sui Dynasty?contains entries of a vassal of the Kingdom of Funan, called Chenla, which had sent an embassy to China c. 616. Under its ruler, Citrasena Mahendravarman (r. 600-615), Funan, a loose network of states (Mandala) covering parts of present-day Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam (c. 50-627 AD), was conquered.

According to an?inscription in the Sdok Kok Thom temple,???around 781 the Khmer prince?Jayavarman II established Indrapura?as the capital of his domain.

Jayavarman II (r.?802–850) became a Khmer king who declared independence from a polity named "Java." He founded many capitals such as Mahendraparvata, Indrapura, Amarendrapura, and Hariharalaya.

Burial jars and other kinds of sepulchers suggest a complex society in which bronze objects appeared around 1500 BC, and iron tools were known from 700 BC.

Following the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah, Genesis 10 presents a family tree in the form of a branched or segmented genealogy, tracing the descendants of Noah’s three sons, Shem, Ham and Japheth, and their descendants. Many of these names become future nations, tribes, lands and cities, known to us from elsewhere in the Bible and from extra-biblical sources: Accordingly, this chapter is referred to as the “Table of Nations.”

In the Book of Genesis, the mountains of Ararat is the term used to designate the region in which Noah's Ark comes to rest after the Great Flood (c. 2100 BC), which destroys all of humanity except the family of Noah.

From these eight people …. Noah, his sons and their wives …? the whole earth was populated.

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