Fall of Civilizations Podcast · Fall of Civilizations Podcast
5. The Khmer Empire - Fall of the God Kings
May 3, 2019·1 hr 39 min·2 clips
Angkor's three pillars were god-kings, competitive taxation, and an enormous water-management system.
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Angkor's power rests on systems whose strengths gradually become liabilities.
Angkor comes through as a city where fields, temples, palaces, reservoirs, canals, bridges, and villages all belonged to the same vast urban system.
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