High Middle Ages · Southeast Asia · Technology
1037
Suryavarman I completes expansion of Angkor's hydraulic system
1037
The Khmer king's engineers finished a network of canals and reservoirs radiating from the West Baray that could irrigate vast tracts of rice paddies through the dry season. The system transformed the Angkor plain into the most productive agricultural region in Southeast Asia, sustaining a population that may have reached a million within the greater metropolitan area.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.