1) The appropriation of Indian tenets of deva-raja or "god-lord"
The antiquated Khmer rulers embraced a fruitful government arrangement of Indian progress as the reproduction. Being adored as the "god-ruler" or deva-raja, the Khmer rulers could run over the realm with awesome authority and outright power. This improved the lords to assemble expansive labor to serve in its military power to shield the country and also to attack the neighbors. Furthermore, the rulers could keep up their broad watering system framework which was the prime variable of its effective economy with their Khmer workers and outside slaves.
Also, the lords encompassed themselves with the shrewd men or the "scholarly" Khmer Brahmins as their advisors. The Brahmins were known not procure immeasurable learning which were acquired from father to children or taught just inside of the gang. These scholarly Brahmins help the rulers to run a proficient organization of the nation, and in this way brought about more grounded domain.
2) Strategic Location
Well-picked vital area of the Angkor by its organizer Jayavarman II hampered the assault by its potential foes which empower its presence for more than 6 centuries.
The Angkor was arranged in the North of Tonle Sap Lake, and the main conceivable path for intruders to acquire a sufficiently substantial troop to battle against the Angkor is by cruising upstream from the Mekong River. Geologically, the Angkor was shielded by tough thick woodlands from all sides. There were no all around created streets, and the area access with vast military power could transform out into a catastrophe. The troops and weapons must be conveyed in a long line which couldn't bolster each other if there should arise an occurrence of being assault. A decent sample is the Persian attack to the Greeks amid the fourth and fifth B.C. Greece for case was ensured by high mountains. Despite the fact that the Persian was significantly more predominant and a great deal more in number, it could barely win over the Greeks.
At the point when the foes proposed to assault the Angkor, they need to cruise up from the Mekong River just to meet with the solid maritime power of Angkor upstream. The adversary's fight ships moved slower along these lines turned into a simpler focus of being assaulted and sunk. All through the historical backdrop of more than 600 years, Angkor lose one and only major maritime fight on Tonle Sap Lake to Champa in 1171.
3) Mastery over Water Control
The topographical area of the Angkor Empire itself confronts two amazing seasons, i.e. the substantial precipitation amid Monsoon and the get period amid the dry Monsoon season. Various substantial repositories, dams, canals and lakes helped essentially to avoid surges over the farmland amid the overwhelming precipitation in Monsoon and to ration water stockpiling for use amid the dry season. The effective and broad watering system arrangement of the antiquated Khmer empowered the domain to develop crops a few times each year which prompted high efficiency and solid economy of the Angkor Empire.
Explanations behind the Fall of Angkor Civilization
1) Introduction of Theravada Buddhism
The mainstay of the Angkor Civilization was upheld by the religious conviction of Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism. The rulers being viewed as the god-lord could rouse the commitment of their kin to serve the throne as a heavenly administration. The realm's broad watering system framework and military troops required enormous workers and labor to keep up. The presentation of Theravada Buddhism in thirteenth century to the Khmers had ended up hurting radiantly the fundamental establishment of the Angkor Empire over the long haul. Theravada Buddhism taught the general population to look for self-edification, forsake common things and debilitate any superstition conviction which straightforwardly or by implication implies all gods and all shades of malice. The sway of the Angkorian ruler as a "divine being above all else" or deva-raja was fundamentally tested.
2) Loss of Water Control
Less commitment of the general population to the "god-ruler" drove negative effect to the realm. The Khmers appear to be unwilling to work wholeheartedly for the lord as a blessed administration as they had already did. The once in the past proficient watering system and seepage framework got to be silted up with less water supply and the rice crops, used to be developed a few times each year, were significantly dropped, along these lines debilitate the efficiency and the quality of the Angkor Empire.
3) External Threats
As neighboring conditions of the Angkor developed, they turned into a noteworthy risk to the domain, particularly the Thai State of Ayuthaya in the Chaophaya River Basin toward the West. To ensure the domain, the Angkor needed to direct parcel of its labor to secure solid military, which thusly, denied itself from giving great upkeep to its watering system framework.
4) Double-edged sword of Roads Network
The street system worked by Jayavarman VII had helped the vehicles of items and exchanges all through the domain furthermore encouraged the Khmer troops to suppress its neighbors. It had turned into a twofold edged sword when the Angkor got to be feeble as the trespassers could undoubtedly walked in through this street system, rather than already cruising up from the Mekong River. This ended up being genuine when the recently developed Ayuthaya, a Thai kingdom in the West got to be more grounded. They utilize this street to walk from the Chaophaya River bowl through Phnomrung (in Burirum of cutting edge Thailand) and after that through Aranyapathet to assault comfortable heart of Angkor lastly sacked the realm in 1431. The eminence of the Angkor Civilization was ended since that time.
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