Power Transition of the Angkor Dynasty

Timeline

1. 1218–1220Royal Palace of Angkor Thom · CambodiaAfter Jayavarman VII's death, monastic and secular factions at court jostled over the choice of successor and governing course. Fiscal and corvée pressures from prolonged large-scale construction became the focus of court and country, and the heir faced a choice between maintaining the imperial system or scaling back policy.
2. 1220Angkor Thom · CambodiaIndravarman II formally acceded, becoming the new monarch after Jayavarman VII. Early in his reign he halted or slowed the great temple and hydraulic works of his father's era, turning to consolidating domestic governance and maintaining the existing territorial order, marking Angkor's shift from an era of expansion and construction to one of preservation and gradual decline.