Anuradhapura: Sri Lanka's Magnificent Hydraulic Civilisation

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1000 years ago, an empire of technocrats emerged on the island of Ceylon. They transformed Sri Lanka's environment and human geography, and then faded away into the jungle.

Sources:
-A History of Sri Lanka, K. M. de Silva
-Elephant Complex; Travels in Sri Lanka, John Gimlette
-The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, Gordon Weiss
-The Ocean of Churn: How the Indian Ocean Shaped Human History, Sanjeev Sanyal
-This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War, Samanth Subramanian
+ Various news sources, especially The Economist

00:00 Intro
00:35 Early History
02:32 Anuradhapura
08:05 Buddha's Bodhi Tree
09:28 Colombo
12:00 Pettah
13:48 Temple Trees
16:04 Galle Face
18:10 Conclusion
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