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Angkorian Period Part 3

Angkorian Period Part 3

By the turn of the 11th century the kingdom of Angkor was losing control of its territories. Suryavarman I (1002-1049), an usurper, move into the power vacuum and, like Javyavarman II two centuries before, reunified the kingdom through war and alliances. He annexed the kingdom of Lopburi in Thailand and extended his control in Cambodia.

Angkorian Period Part 2

Angkorian Period Part 2
Jayavarman II was the first of a long succession of kings who presided over the rise and fall of South-East Asian empire that was to live behind the stunning legacy of Ankor. The first records of the massive irrigation works that supported the population of Ankor begin in the reign of Indravarman I (reigned 889-889).

Angkorian Period Part 1

Angkorian Period Part 1
An inscription at the sacred mountain of Phnom Kulen, to the north of Angkor, reads that in the year 802 Jayavarman II participated in a ritual that proclaimed him a 'universal monarch', or a devaraja (god king). Who was  Jayavarman II and what was he doing before this? It is thought he may has

Chenla Period

Chenla Period
From the 6th century Funan's importance as a port declined, and Cambodia's population gradually concentrated along Mekong and Tonle Sap rivers (as is the case today). The move may be related to the development of wet-rice agriculture. From the 6th to the 8th centuries Cambodia was probably a collection of competing kingdoms, ruled by autocratic kings who legitimised their absolute rule through hierarchical social concepts borrowed from India.

Indianisation & Funan

Indianisation & Funan

The early Indianisation of Cambodia probably occurred via trading settlements that sprang up from the 1st century AD on the coastline of what is now southern Vietnam Such settlements served as ports of call for boats following the trading route from the Bay of Bengal to the southern provinces of China. The largest of these was known as Funan, close to contemporary Oc-Eo in Kien Giang Province of southern Vietnam.

Facts about Cambodia

History
Early Beginnings
Cambodia came into being, so the legend goes, through the union of a princess and a foreigner. The foreigner was an Indian Brahman named Kaundinya. The princess was the daughter of a a dragon king who ruled over over a watery place. One day, as Kaundinya sailed by, the princess paddled out in a boat to greet him. Kaundinya shot an arrow from his magic bow into her boat, causing the princess to fearfully agree to marriage.