5. The Khmer Empire - Fall of the God Kings
Fall of Civilizations SUPPORT THE SHOW AND WATCH AD-FREE: http://patreon.com/fallofcivilizations_podcast Deep in the Cambodian Jungle, a ruined city crumbles among the roots of banyan trees. In this episode, we look at the Khmer Empire of medieval Cambodia, and the ancient mega-city of Angkor. I want to explore how this great civilization rose to a size and wealth virtually unprecedented in the world, how it overcame the challenges of its climate and landscape, and all the factors that led to its final, dramatic collapse. ** Fall of Civilizations the book is now available to pre-order: linktr.ee/fallofcivilizations ** Credits: Sound engineering by Thomas Ntinas Voice Actors: Rhy Brignell Lou Millington Sebastian Garbacz Music by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: incompetech.com/ Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann. https://johnbartmann.com/ ** Special thanks to Tom Chandler, Brent McKee, Mike Yeates and Chandara Ung of SensiLab, Monash University Faculty of IT for kindly sharing their digital recreations of ancient Angkor. ** View their project here: Project website: https://www.virtualangkor.com/ Simulating 24 hours at Medieval Angkor Wat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&=&v=4kU1TSLkMEk&=&feature=emb_logo SOURCES Aeusrivongse, Nidhi. ‘The Devarāja Cult and Khmer Kingship at Angkor.’ Explorations in Early Southeast Asian History: The Origins of Southeast Asian Statecraft, edited by Kenneth R. Hall and John K. Whitmore. University of Michigan Press, 1976, pp. 107–148. Behnke, Alison. Angkor Wat. United States, Twenty-First Century Books, 2008. Bergaigne, Abel Henri Joseph. Inscriptions sanscrites de Campa et du Cambodge. Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1893. Briggs, Lawrence Palmer. The Ancient Khmer Empire. United States, American Philosophical Society, 1951. Chandler, David. A History of Cambodia. Boulder, Westview Press, 1992. Coedès, George and Pierre Dupont, ‘L