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Why Did Angkor Gradually Decline Instead of Suddenly Collapsing? - Angkor's Hydraulic City and the Khmer Empire | Sleepy Facts About History
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The iconic image of Angkor Wat—a vast stone temple rising above a still moat and framed by forest—is one of the most recognizable buildings on Earth. Yet that familiar picture conceals almost everything about what Angkor actually was. The temple was not a solitary monument in the wilderness. It was one component of a sprawling, thousand-square-kilometer engineered landscape on the Cambodian plain, making it one of the largest pre-industrial urban settlements in the world. Between the…
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