Data Set Five

The long periods of building activity, and especially the feverish building program of Jayavarman VII, exhausted and discouraged the people and left them discontented. All the great monuments of antiquity were built by forced labor and the almost necessary consequence of a prolonged period of architectural greatness was an exhausted, spiritless people. The people became dissatisfied with the greedy gods for whom they must continuously toil and fight and give. . .

Briggs, Lawrence Palmer (1951). �The Ancient Khmer Empire?Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Ser., Vol. 41, No. 1, p257-261

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