Angkor Wat - Lies - Extra History

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[@extrahistory]

Recommended Reading: Ancient Angkor - Michael Freeman, Claude Jacques ; The Indianized States of South-East Asia - George Coedès ; www.virtualangkor.com/ Timestamps: 3:55 - Metric System 4:38 - More about the linga 6:45 - Khmer vs Khmai (pronunciation) 7:42 - What the heck is that weapon?! 8:16 - What's the big deal with Buddhism? 9:50 - Axis Mundi 13:06 - Dinosaurs??? 14:20 - The Great Lake (Thanks to connor wintermute ! You can find the original comment here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gH2UqoeOj96Dmpo&lc=UgzcfUFT4PIiIfw3PEl4AaABAg ) 15:40 - Colonialism and "protection" of artifacts 17:48 - Angkor was not in Cambodian control when it became a French protectorate 18:20 - Tree preservation 20:30 - Next up on Extra History 21:37 - Walpole Fact! And that's it! See you next week everyone!

[@ParasaurolophusEwan]

Coppa

[@anarchisttechsupport6644]

@Extra Credits - As you are an educational channel that heavily uses cartoons? Im curious to hear if you're joining the KZbin Walkout Dec 10-13.

[@alejandrokaplan7243]

Can you do a series on the Paris commune

[@MissingRaptor]

Watching this series I was thinking that I would Love to take a virtual tour of Angkor Wat, and you guys have provided just that 💖💖💖

[@dyivbarrott]

THE ORIGINAL NAME WAS CALLED "KHMER MON". THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL PEOPLE. THERE ARE A FEW OF THOSE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE LIVES AROUND THE AREA TODAY. THEIR LANGUAGE IS SOUNDS LIKED MIXER OF HINDI, CHAME, KHMER BURMESE INDONESIAN, THAI. IT'S A VERY PRETTY LANGUAGE.

[@GeneralLuigiTBC]

While I'm sure London and Haiti will be interesting, I'm very excited for Ibn Battuta; I've been hoping for him to get a series ever since we learned about him in the Mali series.

[@tyronechillifoot5573]

Hati is gonna trigger lots of racist

[@Bob-aaaaa]

General Luigi ya

[@gzer0x]

As a historian: “In some limited capacities that could be- not necessarily true- but that could be argued... but the vast majority was straight up looting” is too real

[@jacob8565]

Around 15:50

[@Offdaheazy]

The thailands stole them

[@shindan7]

@@Offdaheazy Wow intersting! Do you have any proofs.

[@Nyst2]

13:15 "I want to anchor something" "anchor what?"

[@imranismail330]

🤣👏👏

[@joehoe222]

Internet won!

[@tragonthong8898]

17:52 Angkor is always a part of Cambodia since its building by the Cambodia king, Suryavarman II. The country was forced to be French protectorate in August 1863. In 1940, the France was defeated in border war with Thailand and surrendered several provinces included Angkor. However, soon after the defeat of Japanese (Thailand and Japanese are same side), the provinces are given back to Cambodia.

[@dyivbarrott]

Yes absolutely.

[@checkmate1015]

The ethnic people of Cambodia are Khmer, the most prominent indigenous people of mainland southeast Asia and rulers of the Khmer empire, whose capital was Angkor. When Siam became more powerful in the west, they sacked Angkor and were inspired by its culture. The Thai Khom script, used for ancient Thai scriptures was essentially Khmer.

[@supremekhmer6596]

One of the most interesting subject about the Khmer Empire would be it's relations with Song Dynasty China during 12th-13th century A.D. This was a time when those two states were the most powerful and there were many Chinese soldiers that fought for the Khmer Empire.

[@SteppeNomad585]

Really? Have not read of that. Can you share the document(s) that provide this information? Thanks.

[@ethantemple506]

These next series all sound AWESOME!!! The MPS, a Revolution, AND IBN BATTUTA!? What’s next, the Cataline Conspiracy???

[@SheepInACart]

The trick with the oversize stairs is they demand you lift your body with totally different muscles to flat ground or short stairs, so even extremely fit visitors will struggle where monks pass easily. I think this silent calling out of overconfidence was intended at some level to create a respect for the place and its practitioners.

[@christopherg2347]

Either he has hands stable enough, he could have been a brain surgeon. Or camera stabilisation is really well developed on his phone. Possibly both.

[@christopherg2347]

0:55 "First, let us talk about the Elephants holding up the room."

[@davidgustavsson4000]

There's always a chance they're doing post-stabilisation on a computer in edit.

[@tragonthong8898]

8:06 The weapon is called Pkeak (ផ្គាក់). It's still using nowsday.

[@krisg1281]

“The shake” my man you’re holding the camera amazingly still

[@Dara-lu5ql]

Thanks for making videos for Cambodia. I am always a fan for Extra history channel. When these videos came out, I was so surprised. It’s been a great series. Thank you♥️

[@lifescree6053]

Last time I was this early, Rome was still a republic.

[@stza16]

Rome will rise again.

[@2ethefirst318]

Last time I was this early, Rome was still ruled by kings

[@NightBlado]

Good job Robert! I have had trouble with most of Lies episodes hosted by James, especially in the Japan Mythology one, but you nailed slow + clear speech pace with non-disruptive scenery audio.

[@shawnheatherly]

Love the little edit here to catch the lie in Lies.

[@debtrunner7929]

Hell yea just got back from walking around the forest and got my morning cup o joe and sat down and i get this treat

[@Overhazard]

Anyone still reading this now: Isan is also locally renowned for its sausages. Admire the ruins there, then support the locals by buying a sausage to eat. (Not for vegetarians, but they also have great mango rice.)

[@Phoenix27272]

I'm amazed you haven't taken a crack at the War of the Roses. I think that would make a fantastic video series for this channel.

[@YourFunkiness]

There are people who don't watch your episodes in order? Who are they and where can we find them?

[@SheepInACart]

We'll send you grid coordinates accurate to the millimeter, but we must warn you the coordinates numbers aren't in order either.

[@YourFunkiness]

@@SheepInACart Well played.

[@poramednakkaew4635]

14:15 A nice little One Piece reference, look at Lara's buckle. I think lots of South East Asia archeological sites had suffered a lot from the raiders and smugglers. For example, lots of temples in Sukhothai was raided by the smugglers to just dig the Chedi's foundation and took out the valuable treasures. Oh, and I have heard that the duel on the elephant back between Naresuan and Mingyi Swa has only appeared on Ayuthaya's historical record. So, If you want to do the episode about Ayuthataya, I would recommend you to check on some Burmese historical record as well. Just to prevent some one-side storytelling and avoid some biases.

[@glitchyikes]

I went to Banteay Srei and Beng Mealea (40km away from sites near Siem Reap) 1st before going to Ta Prohm and the main clusters at Angkor Wat. This was a mistake as those 2 temples were more impressive, which sucks the magic off the main sites. Beng Mealea is Ta Prohm on steroids. A message to future holiday travellers to Siem Reap, plan well.

[@supremekhmer6596]

Beng Melea was built by the legendary Great King Tribhuvanadiyavarman who was the younger brother of King Suryavarman II. They just found this inscription that mentions his name and the temples he built. His reign lasted a very long time over 30 years in which the empire was at it's peak. After his older brother death King Suryavarman II he took the throne. Now experts are learning more and more about him and his state temple Beng Melea which was not just a temple but a city by itself that connects to the city of Angkor by a road system.

[@ldambies]

@@supremekhmer6596 interesting explanation, I thought they did not find any inscriptions in Beng Mealea

[@daraghflanagan2068]

I went to vet nam for my summer holidays for two weeks and thailand for a week. great places to visit.

[@SheepInACart]

Regarding rivers, the Australian Darling river is another example of major waterway that used to reverse, either flooding out towards the center into the Menindee lakes and minor tributaries or receiving environmental flow from them that heads back towards the coast depending on wet or dry season. These days its controlled by many locks and drained mostly by irrigation instead of natural flow, being in very poor health overall, but water added still may flow between locks either direction based off timing/demand, its just directed by people.

[@samuelhernandez4302]

You should do an episode on Teotihuacan and the classical age in Mesoamerica.

[@himalbhujel9869]

Hey, nice to see Nepalese flag in the back ground... love your contents.. 👊👊

[@WaterShowsProd]

The rooster and miniature Tosakanth mask on your desk made me wonder if you were building up to a series about Ayutthaya.

[@KendrixTermina]

The upcoming topics ALL sound juicy af

[@jedirevan5892]

I love this channel. Shining example of what I mean when I say that I attend the University of KZbin.

[@tygerstrike0754]

Nice video

[@boringbreaker]

The decision of not cutting the tree but control it, is genius and wise. I hope I can visit those one day. And yeeey Ibn Batuta. Excited.

[@lucidnonsense942]

Please, please, tell me you are going to discuss Whipping Tom and his reign of "terror..." when you cover policing London. That's the most London crime spree ever!

[@mabsohaimi9866]

Good job

[@WaterShowsProd]

A switch from Hinduism to Buddhism is quite a revolutionary shift, comparable to say switching from Judaism to Christianity, or from either of those to Islam. Similarly, while Buddhism branched from Hinduism it also diverged from it. You mention Buddha being an avatar of Vishnu, but that is the Hindu perspective in which The Buddha is a test to see who will remain faithful. In Buddhism he is The Bodhisatva whose mission it was to seek the eternal truth, and once found even became the teacher of deities. We tend to look at religious changes from a European, or Mediterranean vantage of going from one of form or another of "paganism" to Christianity, going from polytheism to monotheism (or quasi-monotheism depending on the interpretation).

[@MichaelMichael-pc7yc]

Indeed to seek but never to find...

[@TheCreepypro]

well it is nice to hear that at least this time nothing with flags got messed up

[@threeggaming]

Paint your minifigs! Top right shelf.

[@akaichacha]

you should go to Burirum too. they got Khmer style temple there

[@alfreddaniels3817]

I think Kaheva is overreaching her “ expertise”. Ankhor clearly fits in the tradition of templebuilding as it is known from India. Ankor is the central temple of a much larger complex of temples hundreds of miles wide in four directions grom its central: Ankor. that complex of temples formed the spiritual and gouvernemental centre of the huge Kmer empire. The people themselves lived in wooden houses the remains of those have all vanished into rainforest biomass. To build in this stone is very easy as it is more clay than stone and can be worked by a knife. A statue of a meter high can be cut in halve a day.

[@LangThoughts]

Just a note- the site of the Dome of the Rock is also an, actually THE Axis Mundi in Judaism, just because of political reasons we don't have access, besides the doctrine that access would be forbidden anyway because of complicated spiritual reasons, and the doctrine that the Axis Mundi of the site is in "exile" until the end times, and thus "shares" its status as Axis Mundi with the Western Wall. If you're discussing a social science, please don't let politics get in the way of social feelings- if you're afraid of a comment war, saying "The Ka'abah is an Axis Mundi in Islam" or "St. Peter's Basilica is an Axis Mundi in Catholicism" would have been better examples, as there's no politics involved in those facts.

[@dkendrick1916]

Can you guys at extra credits do an extra history on Frans Stigler?

[@vazak11]

Interesting!

[@khrepairs8639]

As a human being we should learn and acknowledge what is the truth of histories. Thank you very much for sharing this Video 🙏

[@austinfears1563]

Can you do Lady jane Grey? The Forgotten Queen of England.

[@gamingdog1244]

Where did you get your drawing style

[@shadhinov]

Hey guys, I'd like to have you're extra game take on superhero games. To be specific- a future superman game.

[@ssteve76]

How are those nighthaunt doing on the tabletop for you?

[@Khookies-lp2lu]

1 am in the morning and i'm earlyyy

[@poop-for-brains]

16:00 love it when people defend colonialism. Folks who know jack about it.

[@iamtea9416]

i like yours if u like this plz do uighur conquest

[@asmrninja77]

do prambanan or borobudur please

[@checkmate1015]

The Tai temples of Chiangmai are beautiful and very distinct from the Khmer/Cambodian style of Angkorwat.

[@ahreach240]

This also khmer temple in the past

[@nexfof1195]

@@ahreach240 Khmer people should stop claiming other nations' cultures. The land of Lanna has never belonged to Cambodia. We have our own culture, language, clothing, art and culture. The Dvaravati Mon Kingdom and the Champa Kingdom occurred several hundred years before the Khmer Empire. But the Khmer war seized the land as their own until the Mon Travadi Kingdom collapsed. The Khmer empire was great from the 9th century to the 14th century because the Khmers waged wars to seize the Mon territory for themselves. 😎

[@sajikomatsueda7266]

@@nexfof1195 "seize"? U're means "capture"?

[@nexfof1195]

@@sajikomatsueda7266 The Varman dynasty was actually a ruling class that originated from South India. They extended their power to the territories of Southeast Asia.The Khmer people are Austonesian tribes living in this area.After that, the Southern Indian Varman dynasty brought the Khmer savages to serve as slave labor.The Khmer were merely elemental workers, but the Varman Dynasty was a ruling class from South India.The true Khmer King was Tolsak Prem. who is the head of the Cham slaves Was appointed by King Varman IX, but after that this slave leader assassinated King Varman IX and gathered forces of slave laborers to rebel.Overthrow the Varman dynasty, kill some of the nobles and have to flee to live in Thailand.After the Varman dynasty fell, Tolsak Prem, the leader of the slaves, appointed himself king of Angkor Thom.Later, Ayutthaya Kingdom, which is the ancient kingdom of Thailand Declare war on khmer The reason why Ayutthaya went to war with Khmer was because Tolsak Prem is not descended from the South Indian Varman dynasty. He was just the head of slave labor but made himself king.

[@ritheshofficial]

Umm... I see Nepal flag back there, is that a reference for upcoming episodes??

[@shlomster6256]

I really appreciate the scholarship and didacticism of these episodes. It's a high mark of scholarship to transparently go back and "fix" ones own content. "Extra" points for doing it so quickly. This is my most valuable and cost "effective" patreon investment. +$50 to that investment. Thanks!

[@davidbunner6708]

Rooster? I won't tell you what I thought it was on first glance...

[@wileyjackson5124]

Come to Vietnam and I’ll happily give you a tour of northern and southern cultures and sights.

[@tompatterson1548]

ooorrrr the dinosaur could be ancient paleoart. We have drawings of dinosaurs now, and they're still alive.

[@goskascience]

Which two places is he talking about at 19:50? Ayitia and Kherson? I can't find the correct spelling to Google this.

[@errorcrj110]

Ayutthaya. Not sure about the other

[@Orrlur]

E-San อีสาน

[@AbsolXGuardian]

Ah now I understand why there was so much debate under my comment making a joke about a traveler finding the sex symbolism in the lingas weird. I quickly lost track of all the replies. Although I agree with the people who said that either trying to look more respectable to Christians or just Christian missionaries recording it could muddy the waters in some way, in addition to regional variations.

[@NanoElite666]

Axis Mundi was a good album.

[@partysnick]

was it just me or did lara croft have a one piece belt buckle ?? :D

[@wileyjackson5124]

The yoni lingam argument that people are using, is a modern interpretation laid on top of old beliefs. Valid but not in the context of the Kmer.

[@solomonking5097]

Ancient Khmer used these lingam to embraced Father and Mother..

[@lemedic3827]

tell us the story of Desmond Doss

[@Wisewomen15]

The change in religion was also significant, cause it affected the caste system at the time

[@jamcdonald120]

I cant see any way to build a building otherthan walking in with your back to the door heading to the back of the room

[@jamcdonald120]

@@ArawnOfAnnwn i guess, but after you start approaching either side, you now have your back to the door

[@timothystamm3200]

Okay sacred spaces are usually not compartamentalized in a manner that distracts you from the sacred objects and tend to guide you into the sacred object. For example churches and old pagan temples leave the sacred in the center of a long corridor that is visible from the entrance so that normally you have to approach it. It's not just entering from the front (by the way you seem to have forgotten back doors) but processing towards a centralized alter visable from the front and which the whole room points to.

[@franklinclinton4539]

Please. Make a episode about the Winter War.

[@iamtea9416]

plz do uighur conquest plz do uighur conquest

[@flavium9664]

Hi!

[@Needed4Reddit]

I was one of the first ones to correct the pronunciation (I scrolled a bunch an no one had mentioned it so may have been the first). Planning to move to Buri Ram. Can't wait to go back to SEA. Did you see any of the cats at the temples in the Ankor World Heritage sites? I have a pic I took at Pre Rup at sunset with the cat staring at the camera next to all of the aligned "windows.

[@tompatterson1548]

the switch to buddhism would be a big deal because people may have liked shiva, and their favorite god might not be in the new pantheon of a philosophy with internal metaphysics!

[@Loremastrful]

You left TheRathofRob twitter handle on the table? So disappointing.

[@LetsTakeWalk]

Get down to WAT.

[@StaleBaguette]

When are we getting the american Revolution series? Just saying.

[@agianthacksaw4206]

I’m kinda mixed on a revolution series. On one hand I will get to learn more of the details on the revolution since I only remember the surface details from school. On another hand id rather learn more about the obsecure moments in history, things I’ve never even heard of/There’s already plenty of well put together animators who did something on the American revolution.

[@SheepInACart]

I think "more obscure" may be the wrong way to put it, this is a broad overview of the rise and fall of cities near a million people, for reference equal to the sum of the three largest US colonies during the revolutionary war, or about half as the entirety of the colonies involved. Likewise while longer ago, these events where not ancient by any means, and still have large ramifications for a large portion of the planet, either by religion or politics (and often its mighty hard to separate the two). Instead the biggest difference here is geographical, for US creators its a far away place, while events like the civil war are local history, thus more often spoken. But even here in majority white, european, english speaking Australasia US civil war is a somewhat rare topic, with early colonialism in this region being the start of our school taught history and long after US independence.

[@Bloodstar6078]

@@SheepInACart I think by "more obscure," they meant global history and other topics they are less informed about. Its definitely a US-centric view since as you said this is local history to someone, just as US History is local to them.

[@nowwhat6716]

Unique flag U got there

[@solomonking5097]

Fun fact Henri Mouhot who so called discovered Angkor Wat was caught defacing Angkor Wat / Nagar Vat...........

[@Maharaja_of_Punjab]

Not too late am I

[@igiem368]

What will happen to the channel when the new COPPA laws are acted upon?

[@joehoe222]

4:05 typically 'Murican to 'forget' metric...

[@siamean1]

Actriser?

[@Osric24]

Spoilers: It was Walpole

[@Rakshasa1986]

Angkor what?

[@frankharr9466]

That is a terrible Walpole connection. But I get it. It's complicated seems to be a very popular reality. Yeah, environmental protection is an issue all over. Also, metric, bleh!

[@anasklender2740]

I think Naga mean dragon,... 🤔

[@isaacthek]

See the history of India for the friction between Buddhist and Hindi religion.

[@iamtea9416]

plz do uighur conquest

[@ahreach240]

This temple are also khmer temple

[@cham6328]

Yaaaaa Khmer history

[@EL-xn9iz]

That all from Cambodia

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

6:53 - 🤦 If the viewer doesn't know a term, you should use the correct pronunciation so that they learn it the right way, and if they know the wrong one, you should still say it correctly so that they learn the right one instead of continuing to say it wrong.

[@danielespinolajr1]

Egg

[@justinthomas7222]

Fibsh!

[@tobey_maguire_]

You were right about the interpretation of linga. There was nothing wrong about what you said. And this is something coming from an Indian. Though you will find that many of my fellow countrymen, treat the definition of linga in a more PG ways, and deny to accept the fact that linga is indeed penis. In my opinion, as Hinduism is a very old religion, then during that time human population was not very much. So I think it is obvious for the people of that time to treat human reproduction as a sacred thing.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

The temple looks nice, Thailand is beautiful

[@diebesgrab]

“doing so many episodes at once” Is that why the space ones were so terribly researched?

[@syferpolski4344]

Why do Americans pronounce the adjective form of Haiti so weirdly? Instead of Haitan, Americans read it "Hessian", as if referring to Hesse in Germany...

[@toymationstudios8613]

*PRAISE PRAVUS*

[@yoeunvathanakcambodiaschoo7570]

What ????🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭🇰🇭💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@frien_d]

So, actual people who actually believe in shiva actually believe they're worshipping a penis... or not? Because this is not clear here. The definitions involving a column of light and a recipient sound too much like new-age white-guy BS to me.

[@Maharaja_of_Punjab]

Sikh empire

[@dyivbarrott]

That's a LIED, it has always belonged to Khmer people. Thai said it belonged to them. KHMER ANGKOR WAT HAS A GREAT HISTORY.

[@nana-xu6bz]

​​@@KhmerProtectore talks during war Vietnam and Siam take Cambodia land sharing 50%50% and french come to take it back for Cambodia but still under development till war II french give full freedom to Cambodia...

[@nana-xu6bz]

@@KhmerProtector which king name rules អានេះ ចោទអានោះ អានោះចោទអានេះ.. French ថាវាជួយរំដោះ 1: សៀមចោទ French កាត់ អង្គរ អោយខ្មែរ. មួយណាអោយប្រាកដ.. នាក់កាត់អោយ

[@AurionCeltigar]

Its all Thai

[@seanbhu858]

Fake !!!