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Vietnamese armies kept on repeatedly attacking the Khmer forces in Mekong RIver and defeated the Khmer. This was the end of the Khmer Empire.
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The Thai army attacked attacked Angkor, so The Khmer’s abandoned Angkor, over centuries, the jungle grows and the place became forgotten. Khmer rulers relocate in Phnom Penh. After they relocated, the Siamese (Thai) King attacked and defeated the Khmer King, but didn’t destroy the Empire.
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Buddhism grew important and again became the religion of the Khmer Kings.
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Rule of Jayavarman VIII. He renounced Buddhism and that all Buddhist temples and images were to be destroyed and that Hindu would become the new main religion. Hindus believed in many different god’s and in karma.
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This was the period that Angkor Wat was built, this temple made Buddhism very important. It is 1.6 millions square metres and has a moat which is 3.6 kilometers long.
1181- Jayavarman VII defeated the Chams and expanded the empire to new limits in present day Laos, Thailand and Burma. -
Jayavarman II is enthroned as a devaraja. He further strengthened the power of the Khmer empire. By him being a devaraja, meant that he had declared himself a God living on Earth. He made many cultural and educational developments, women held important positions in society for the first time in religious and social life.
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Jayavarman II unifies all the smaller states to create one large empire, the Capital is in the Angkor region in Cambodia.
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Funan and Chenla are the earliest known Southeast asian kingdoms, these kingdoms collapsed and rose from 550-700
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First known kingdom if he Mekong River region. It was a good place to live because water supply was nearby and there was area to grow vegetation.
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Evidence of trade between the Khmer and Indians. Archaeologists discovered evidence of iron made tools dating back to 500. There are no written records of the Khmer making these themselves or being introduced through other people.
