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The Water Crisis That Brought Down Angkor
Angkor's rise was powered by one of the most sophisticated water management systems in the premodern world—a network of barays, canals, and reservoirs that captured monsoon rains and sustained a million people. But the same system that built the empire may have also doomed it. In this episode, Lucas and Luna trace the engineering marvels of the Khmer hydraulic system, the gradual decay that set in after the 13th century, and the mounting evidence that climate volatility—prolonged droughts followed by destructive floods—pushed Angkor past a breaking point. Drawing on tree-ring studies…
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