>reading Wikipedia instead of a real book about it
pathetic

>>42153509
maybe. would you date a transbian neet reading the wikipedia article about the Iran Hostage Crisis for the first time? c:

>>42153699
It's not important enough to me to invest that much time in it. I like world history in a broad scale and will only occasionally deviate into hyper-specifics if it helps my gestalt understanding

>>42153715
Yes but how are we gonna pay rent babe?

Cambodian basket weaving bump

>>42153509
no

>>42154796
Why not

Bump

>>42153509
can you tell me anything interesting about them? ive only played as them on age of empires two

>>42156076
Their water management system was an ancient, iterative process. they started building dikes (retaining walls around rivers) and reservoirs to control flooding and retain water for a thousand years before the elaborate larger Baray reservoirs and Angkor water management systems were constructed during their peak. It started on smaller scales for rice paddies and gradually scaled over time into their peak with the imperial period

Oftentimes they would hew water management structures into existing geology, I forget exactly how but it was amenable to that for reasons. Fall of Civilizations talks about this a bit iirc. The engineers and clergy/leadership eventually came to see their construction of Angkor's city and water management to be gradually bringing it closer to a divine mirror version of the city