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The Desertion of Angkor: Why 750,000 People Walked Away
Why would a million people abandon the world's largest pre-industrial city? In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the slow-motion collapse of Angkor after the 1431 Thai sack — not a single dramatic fall, but a century-long drift. They trace the crumbling canal system that locked boats in dead-end lakes, the hollowing out of the devaraja cult as Theravada Buddhism offered kings a quieter covenant, and the final blow: the Mekong's shifting silt that turned Angkor's water grid into a liability. Along the way, they meet the last known Angkorian inscription, King Ponhea Yat's…
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