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The Khmer empire was established by Jayavarman II in the country now called cambodia. Jayavarman II unifies the smaller states of the empire to the create one massive capital of the empire in Angkor.
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Being a god-king is the highest respect in their country and Jayavarman appointed himself with the title of Devaraja
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Angkor wat construction commences with suryavarman calling on the people of the Khmer empire to build the temple for the resting place of Suryavarman I as he will become a god king. He promised that the people how helped build the temple would go to the afterlife.
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Buddhism came to the Khmer empire from India. There are 3 main types of buddhism being Theravada, Mahayana and Zen. Mahayana was the the main buddhist teaching in the Khmer empire. Even though Jayavarman II wasn’t buddhist he still aloud the practise to stay in the empire
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The Khmer empire was getting to big for their own region so they had to expand to provide more room for their people and they also wanted to expand so they would look more powerful therefor other empires wouldn’t attack them because they know they are powerful.
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Hinduism became very popular in the Khmer empire because of what the religion stood for. The Hinduism class system was very like as it put all the citizens into a category according to the family they were born into. The major temples in the empire were dedicated to Hindu God.
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The Thai army attack Angkor because the empire is getting too powerful so therefore they attacked so stop the rise of the empire.
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They leave Angkor because it is getting too complicated so run the city and also because of thee nature over grows in the city so the just abandon it.
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The Khmers relocate because there is a new king and he doesn’t want the capital to be something that another king built and also because he wanted to do something big so he would be remember as a great king.
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The Vietnamese Attacked the Khmer empire as they were a high profile target and they were also getting to strong and powerful.
