WHS+-+Angkor+(Cambodia)

====A. The world heritage site is a website which has information on the heritage of many different countries cultural beliefs. ====


 * ====B. ====

|||||||||||| ====** Cultural criteria ** ==== |||||||| ====** Natural criteria ** ==== ||
 * ====Operational Guidelines 2002 ==== || ====(i) ==== || ====(ii) ==== || ====(iii) ==== || ====(iv) ==== || ====(v) ==== || ====(vi) ==== || ====(i) ==== || ====(ii) ==== || ====(iii) ==== || ====(iv) ==== ||
 * ====Operational Guidelines 2005 ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(i) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(ii) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(iii) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(iv) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(v) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(vi) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(viii) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(ix) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(vii) ==== || ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">(x) ==== ||


 * 1) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to represent a masterpiece of human creative genius; ====
 * 2) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design; ====
 * 3) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared; ====
 * 4) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history; ====
 * 5) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change; ====
 * 6) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria); ====
 * 7) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance; ====
 * 8) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features; ====
 * 9) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals; ====
 * 10) ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">to contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;">C. Its stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights along with fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the UN Charter.[|[1]] It is the heir of the League of Nations' International Commission on Intellectual Cooperation. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;">D. ====

====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 72pt; text-indent: -18pt;">E. At the beginning of the 9th century AD the two states that covered the territory of modern Cambodia were united by Jayavarman II. who set the foundations of the Khmer Empire, which was the major power in south-east Asia for nearly five centuries. ==== ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 72pt;">One of the sites where his court resided for some years was in central Cambodia, to the north of Tonle Sap (The Great Lake), where half a century later Jayavarman's son, Yashovarman, was to establish Yashodapura, the permanent capital of the Khmer Empire until the 15th century. It was later given the name Angkor (from the Sanskrit "nagara", meaning city or capital). ==== ====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-left: 72pt;">The first capital was at latter-day Roluos, itself a pre-Angkorian capital, Hariharalaya. This conformed to the classic form of Khmer capital. ====

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> 6. What action is appropriate?
====<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;">The Angkor site should be protected because it contains the magnificent remains of the different capitals of the Khmer Empire, from the 9th to the 15th century. ====