Timeline for Angkor and the Khmer empire

For approximately 500 years from the ninth to the fifteenth centuries, the Khmer empire dominated the politics and economy of Southeast Asia. Centered on modern day Cambodia, it extended its influence across a vast swath of territory, encompassing most of present-day Thailand and the southern provinces of Laos and Vietnam. At its peak in the twelfth century, the city of Angkor, which had an estimated 750,000 inhabitants dispersed over an interconnected, hydraulic landscape, was “the largest settlement complex of the preindustrial world.” (Evans, Fletcher et al. 2013). For a detailed timeline see below: