Angkor Wat (In Our Time)
1150 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the largest and arguably the most astonishing religious structure on Earth, built for Suryavarman II in the 12th Century in modern-day Cambodia. It is said to have more stone in it than the Great Pyramid of Giza, and much of the surface is intricately carved and remarkably well preserved. For the last 900 years Angkor Wat has
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1150
- Angkor Wat built (1113)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Genghis Khan (1162)
- Norman invasion of Ireland (1169)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Reign of Henry II (1154)
- Kamakura shogunate (1185)
- Frederick I Barbarossa (1122)
- Almohad Caliphate (1121)
- Third Crusade (1189)