Vietnam Project

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Reader

• If you think that youre the only person reading
  this thing, youre wrong. I'm also reading it.
  Well how would you expect me to know what this
  says I'm only the maker of this thing.

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The SAGA

• Now im going to tell you that the GEOGRAPHY SAGA
  has started. Thats all.

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What countries are on the borders of Vietnam

• There arent much countries on the borders of
  Vietnam. The countries on the borders are China,
  Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Burma and thats all

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Capital of Vietnam

• This place called Hanoi is the capital of
  Vietnam. It is located on the top part and the
  Big City in the south is Hoa Chi Minh City.

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Makers talk

• I wonder why the maker of this thing put s at
  the beginning and ending of the words big city.
  He must be an Idiot. Get it. Ok ok that was a
  crap joke.

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Land information

• total 329,560 sq km country
• comparison to the world 73
• land 325,360 sq
• Km water 4,200 sq km
• lowest point South China Sea 0 m
• highest point Fan Si Pan 3,144 m

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The SAGA

• The GEOGRAPHY SAGA has now ended. THE HISTORY
  SAGA has now started.

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Makers Talk

• The French people ruled Vietnam for a 100 years.
  That must be the reason why French is still
  spoken in Vietnam.

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History

• The Vietnamese are descendants of nomadic Mongols
  from China and migrants from Indonesia. According
  to mythology, the first ruler of Vietnam was Hung
  Vuong, who founded the nation in 2879 B.C. China
  ruled the nation then known as Nam Viet as a
  vassal state from 111 B.C. until the 15th
  century, an era of nationalistic expansion, when
  Cambodians were pushed out of the southern area
  of what is now Vietnam.

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• A century later, the Portuguese were the first
  Europeans to enter the area. France established
  its influence early in the 19th century, and
  within 80 years it conquered the three regions
  into which the country was then
  dividedCochin-China in the south, Annam in the
  central region, and Tonkin in the north.

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• France first unified Vietnam in 1887, when a
  single governor-generalship was created, followed
  by the first physical links between north and
  southa rail and road system. Even at the
  beginning of World War II, however, there were
  internal differences among the three regions.
  Japan took over military bases in Vietnam in
  1940, and a pro-Vichy French administration
  remained until 1945. Veteran Communist leader Ho
  Chi Minh organized an independence movement known
  as the Vietminh to exploit the confusion
  surrounding France's weakened influence in the
  region. At the end of the war, Ho's followers
  seized Hanoi and declared a short-lived republic,
  which ended with the arrival of French forces in
  1946.

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• Paris proposed a unified government within the
  French Union under the former Annamite emperor,
  Bao Dai. Cochin-China and Annam accepted the
  proposal, and Bao Dai was proclaimed emperor of
  all Vietnam in 1949. Ho and the Vietminh withheld
  support, and the revolution in China gave them
  the outside help needed for a war of resistance
  against French and Vietnamese troops armed
  largely by a United States worried about cold war
  Communist expansion.

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The SAGA

• The HISTORY SAGA has now ended.The CULTURE SAGA
  has now started

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Makers Talk

• I must say that the HISTORY SAGA was a very short
  one.I hope that the CULTURE SAGA will be a lot
  longer. How much more of an idiot can the maker
  of this thing get.

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The Áo dài

• The Áo dài is a Vietnamese traditional costume
  for Ladies, just like the Kurta Pyjamas (koorta
  pai-jama) or the Sari as the traditional costume
  in India.

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Makers talk

• I thought I would show you a few pictures of a
  Vietnamese costume.

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Religion

• The predominant religion in Vietnam is Buddhism,
  which is also on of the world's great religions.
  Buddhism was introduced into Vietnam under the
  Chinese domination, in the second century B.C.,
  by Chinese immigrants and by Indian preachers
  coming by sea. Buddhism became the state religion
  of Vietnam under Ly Dynasty (1010-1214). Several
  kings took the cassock or retired into a pagoda
  after their

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• abdication. Buddhist monks served as counsellors
  to the king at court. Since the Tran Dynasty
  (1225-1440), Buddhism has lost the status of a
  state religion but nevertheless remained the
  dominant religion in Vietnam and a major cultural
  force

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Buddhism

• Buddhism was originated in India by Siddharta
  (563-483 B.C.) or Gautama Buddha, which means the
  Enlightened One." According to Buddha, man was
  born into this world to suffer. The cause of
  suffering is the craving for wealth, fame, and
  power that necessarily brings about frustration
  and disappointment. In order to be free from
  suffering, man must suppress its ultimate cause
  craving. He must not be attached to anything in
  this "world appearance" and live a life full of
  virtue, according

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• to the Eightfold Path. This core of Buddhist
  teaching holds that there are eight "right" ways
  to live virtuously right views, right thought,
  right conduct, right speech, right livelihood,
  right effort, right mindfulness and right
  meditation. An individual's fate in this
  existence is determined by what he has done in
  his previous existence. This is the law of Karma,
  or cause and effect.

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• The soul does not perish at death, but
  reincarnates in another existence and this goes
  on and on. The Buddhist's goal is to be freed
  from the circle of reincarnation and reach
  Nirvana, which is a state of complete redemption
  and supreme happiness. Theoretically, any person
  may become a Buddha by suppressing craving and
  following the Eightfold Path, but those who
  actually attain Buddhahood are rare.

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• There are two branches of Buddhism Hinayana
  (Little Vehicle) also called Theravada Buddhism,
  which nourishes in Sri Lanka, Thailand, Cambodia,
  Laos, and Burma, and Mahayana (Great Vehicle)
  Buddhism which is found in China, Korea, Japan,
  and Vietnam. Most Vietnamese Buddhists belong to
  the Mahayana branch. The Theravada branch exists
  in communities of ethnic Cambodians and
  Vietnamese living in the Mekong Delta.

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