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archeologist

someone who studies ancient ruins to learn about historical peoples

predate

they existed 300 years before Angkor Wat

conduct

to lead�

coordination

together with

survey

to scan or look for

depicted

shown

guerrilla armies

soldiers that fight hidden in the trees rather than in organized lines. This refers to the civil war when the Khmer Rouge was in power.

remains

stuff left behind by previous civilizations

A team of archaeologists studying the ancient Khmer civilization of Cambodia announced in 1998 that they had discovered a series of previously unknown Khmer temples and a man-made mound in the jungle of northwestern Cambodia. The newly discovered temples predate by as much as 300 years the nearby temple of Angkor Wat.

The newfound archaeological structures were first detected during a space shuttle mission conducted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in 1994. In December 1996, NASA, working in coordination with archaeologist and Khmer civilization expert Elizabeth Moore of the University of London, surveyed the densely vegetated region using advanced microwave radar imaging. The radar images produced enough evidence to suggest that some sort of man-made structure existed deep beneath the thick foliage. In December of 1997, Moore led a team of archaeologists through the Cambodian jungle in search of the structures depicted in the radar surveys. Traveling carefully through regions controlled by guerrilla armies, the archaeologists eventually discovered the remains of six additional temples in the area near Angkor Wat.

-         Britannica

�Recorded Tai attacks on Angkor occurred in 1369, 1389, and 1431, after which the Khmer capital was definitely abandoned. There undoubtedly were other attacks as well.?#060;o:p>

-Britannica

�There is no evidence that the Siamese [Tai] ever captured Angkor before 1431.?

- Lawrence Briggs

maximize the potential

to make most efficient

supplement

to add more to

endeavors

efforts

whilst

while

paddy fields

wet fields for growing rice

To maximize the potential of the rice fields there was a need to maintain a ready supply of labor and the ordinary Khmer family would, if they could afford it, purchase slaves to supplement their own endeavors. The price of a healthy young slave was about 100 strips of cloth whilst even the least saleable person could fetch 30. The wealthiest owners had a hundred or more slaves whereas the very poor had none at all. Between these two extremes there were thousands of families which each possessed a handful of slaves.