A great ancient city Ankhor ruined by water shortage
Cambodia which was previously called Angkor, has its capital in great Khmer. Angkor was the largest preindustrial city in the ancient times. The preindustrial city for the world is now in ruins at Angkor Wat. Today visitors can see ornately carved temples of Buddhist, massive and intricate water systems. Dikes which have ponds remnants of the ruins which is sorrowful.
The Thai invaders succumbed the city in1431 when the city declined. The mystery of the collapse has a partial answers say researchers.
A follow up flooding, two massive droughts may have affected the city so much. The agriculture base of the city must have weakened due to the droughts and left it vulnerable. The other reasons may be due to the invasion of invaders and people being vulnerable to diseases.
The severity of drought may have influenced the sprawling city’s water supply. The agricultural productivity may have been impacted by the Angkor droughts. Monsoon years should have damaged the water control infrastructure say researchers. The findings were in the recent proceedings of the national academy of sciences. The cloud forest which is situated near the Vietnam was also conducted tree wing. The rings were seemed to grow wider or narrower based on the rainfall. Angkor was a home for million people according to a study in 2007.