MEGACITY

ANGKOR WAT-THE INCREDIBLE CREATURE

1.What is the 'Bayon' ?

The Bayon is a well-known and richly decorated Khmer temple at Angkor in Cambodia.

2.What is the 'Bayon' famous for ?

Bayon's most distinctive features is the multivate of serene and massive stone faces on many towers which jut out from the upper terrace and cluster around its central park.

3.Who was Chou Ta-Kuan ?

Chou Ta-Kuan is the Chinese official that was sent by his emperor on a reporting mission to the Kingdom of Khmer.


4.Who were the Khmer's enemy?

Khieu Samphan.

5.What is the main reason for the fall of the Khmer empire ?

Loss of water control.Khmer seem unwilling to work wholeheartedly for the king as they had previously did.

6.How did Angkor Wat survive ?

Angkor Wat survive by collecting water from rivers for agriculture as well as draining and reserving water from the monsoon season.Storing the water helped as the area only had two season.

7.Who built Angkor Wat ?

Angkor Wat is built by King Suryavarman II.

8.What does Angkor Wat mean ?

Angkor is a vernacular form of the word nokor which comes from the Sanskrit word nagara mean capital.Wat is the Khmer word for temple.So, Angkor Wat means 'City Temple'.

9.What contributed to the rise of Angkor ?

The monks who keeps visiting the temple as pilgrimage site

10.How did the Khmer cultivate rice ?

They built barays in which they store water for the use of cultivating rice.

11.What contributed to the fall of Angkor ?

External threats from neighbouring countries like Thailand had contributed to the fall of Angkor.