Word: french
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French first landed in Vietnam in the 1860s, but they did not manage to wipe out the last remnants of major resistance until...
...French stole land from the peasants and gave it to a small, new class of absentee landlords, some French, some wealthy Vietnamese. In addition, they slapped huge taxes on the peasants, who were already hurt by paying rent for land they had once owned. To survive, many peasants had to sell their children as servants to the wealthy...
...victory of the Vietnamese people against first French and then American imperialism is the single most important event in world history since the end of the Second World War. Yet in our country there seems to be a growing unawareness of just what exactly happened in the last cataclysmic quarter-century in Vietnam. We offer this quiz as a way to both test and inform our readers...
...When did the French colonize Vietnam...
Player's ancestors were French Huguenots who emigrated to South Africa in the early 18th century. His great-grandmother participated in the Great Trek of the Boers north from Capetown in 1847. She married James Powers, whose intimate knowledge of South Africa's veldts and wildlife has been inherited by Player. In fact, Player's brother Ian was chief game conservator of the Hluhluwe and Umfolozi game reserves in Zululand...