of other temples and shrines of lesser grandeur built by rulers of Southeast Asia’s Khmer Empire from the ninth to 15th centuries, he says.
“There was nothing like Greater Angkor until the advent of 19th century industrial cities,
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,000 residents in the 12th and 13th centuries. Cities of around 1 million people arose in China by the ninth century,
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, but those metropolises covered one-half or less the area of Greater Angkor. Spread-out cities in the mold of Greater Angkor became more common in the 1800s as trains and cars made long-distance travel easier. But discoveries at Greater Angkor shatter a long-standing assumption that urban sprawl was impossible without mechanical forms of transportation,
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Carved inscriptions at Angkor Wat describe the structure as the pet project of Suryavarman II,
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, who ruled the Khmer Empire from 1113 until his death in 1149. Serving first as a temple dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu, Angkor Wat also became a mausoleum for Suryavarman II when he died.
The temple hosted Hindu ceremonies into the 13th century. In the 14th or 15th century,
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, Angkor Wat’s modern-day Buddhist monks had no idea that the site was once so extensive.
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