The Entire History of the Khmer Empire Explained in 20 Minutes (Burned 4 Times, Still Here)

For 2,000 years, the Cham, the Siamese, the Vietnamese and finally the Khmer Rouge tried to drain Cambodia dry. Every time, the water came back. This is the whole history of the Khmer people in about 20 minutes: from the trading kingdom of Funan and the lake that flows backward, to the oldest zero carved in stone, the rise of Angkor and Angkor Wat, the 1177 sack and Jayavarman VII, the fall of Angkor in 1431, the squeeze between Siam and Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge years, and the mystery of the only national flag in the world with a building on it. One pattern runs through all of it: the Khmer always flow back. Chapters: 00:00 The Four Blows: Burned Four Times, Never Erased 02:14 Funan and the Lake That Flows Backward 04:18 The Name Cambodia and the Oldest Zero 06:00 Angkor Rises: Water, Stone and Suryavarman II 08:31 The Myth of the "Lost City" 09:32 1177: The Cham Sack Angkor, Jayavarman VII Returns 11:59 1431: Ayutthaya Takes Angkor 13:46 Centuries of Squeeze: Siam and Vietnam 14:30 1834: Vietnam Turns Cambodia Into a Province 15:24 1975: The Khmer Rouge and the Return 16:57 The Flag Mystery: Why a Temple on the Flag? 18:20 Cambodia Today 19:14 Why the Khmer Always Flow Back Sources: George Coedes, The Indianized States of Southeast Asia, University of Hawaii Press, 1968. https://uhpress.hawaii.edu David Chandler, A History of Cambodia, 4th ed., Westview, 2008. Charles Higham, The Civilization of Angkor, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001. Zhou Daguan, A Record of Cambodia, trans. Peter Harris, Silkworm Books, 2007. Ben Kiernan, The Pol Pot Regime, Yale University Press, 2008. Evans et al., "A comprehensive archaeological map of the world's largest preindustrial settlement complex at Angkor, Cambodia," PNAS, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0702525104 Buckley et al., "Climate as a contributing factor in the demise of Angkor, Cambodia," PNAS, 2010. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0910827107 UNESCO World Heritage List, "Angkor" (1992). https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/668 Wikipedia: Khmer Empire, Funan, Suryavarman II, Jayavarman VII, Flag of Cambodia, Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907, Tonle Sap, Cambodian genocide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_E... Some dates and figures are estimates or traditions (for example the 802 coronation, the seven-month siege of 1431, and the death toll of 1975-79); the video says so where it matters. Subscribe for the next place's complete history. #KhmerEmpire #AngkorWat #CambodiaHistory #AnimatedHistory #History