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The Lost City of Angkor: Collapse and Survival
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the forgotten history of Angkor's final centuries. The great Khmer capital, once the largest city in the medieval world, faced a slow unraveling after the reign of Jayavarman VII. We follow the reign of Jayavarman VIII, the arrival of Theravada Buddhism, the sack by the Siamese in 1431, and the eventual abandonment of the city to the jungle. Along the way, we meet the Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan, whose travelogue remains our only eyewitness account of Angkor's decline, and we consider the roles of climate change, water management failure, and…
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