Peasants: |
Some evidence about the live of normal Khmer peasants has come from carvings on the temples walls. The largest sector of the population of the Khmer Empire must have been the farmers or peasants who worked for the aristocrats or for the temples. Temple inscriptions refer only to large landowners or aristocrats, so we do not know if there was small landowners or not. But, we do know that the general population had to work for the temples or aristocrats for at least half of their working life.
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