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At its peak in the twelfth century, Angkor was the largest city on earth — home to between 750,000 and one million people, larger than medieval London, Paris, and Rome combined. It was built not on gold or conquest but on water. The Khmer Empire constructed a hydraulic system covering 1,000 square kilometers — reservoirs the size of inland seas, canals connecting them across the landscape — that allowed three rice harvests per year where one was previously possible. Then, in 1431, the last Khmer king abandoned it. The city emptied. The jungle moved in. For four centuries it disappeared so completely that the outside world forgot it had existed. This video tells the full story: how Jayavarman II built the hydraulic state, how Suryavarman II constructed Angkor Wat with five million tons of sandstone and 300,000 workers, how Jayavarman VII's building overreach began the system's unraveling, and why a city of a million people was simply walked away from — not conquered, not destroyed, just no longer affordable. 📌 CHAPTERS — Cambodia, 802 AD: Water Is Power — The Water Machine: How the Hydraulic System Works — Jayavarman II and the Founding of the Divine State — Suryavarman II and the Construction of Angkor Wat — The City: A Million People in the Jungle — Jayavarman VII and the Overreach — The Hydraulic Failure: What the Laser Scans Reveal — The Thai Pressure: Military Decline Meets Fiscal Collapse — The Abandonment: Why a City of a Million Simply Walks Away — The Answer: Hydraulic, Agricultural, Fiscal 🎯 Topics covered: Khmer Empire, Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Jayavarman II, Suryavarman II, Jayavarman VII, hydraulic civilization, Tonle Sap, Southeast Asian history, pre-industrial cities, LiDAR archaeology @CinematicTalesofHistory
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