
16. Bagan - City Of Temples
Fall of Civilizations Podcast
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The History of the People of Ancient Bhagawan
The year was 832. The Byzantine Empire, the last remaining part of what had been the Roman Empire, was fighting for its life against increasingly confident Arab empires. In the mountains of southern China, the armies of Nan Chao marched out to conquer the lands of Burma. At that time, the society occupying the dry zone around the Irowadi was a people who are remembered as the Pew. It seems they spoke a language of the Sino-Tibetan family and lived in a loosely connected group of five city-states in the valley of theIrowadi. Their culture was heavily influenced by trade with India. They live in multi-storied houses, without city walls,
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