Annamese
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Origin of Annamese
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The Annamese mountain chain sloped and plunged from the Laotian border eastward into the tight flatiron plains that hugged the coast, generating white water rivers and misty waterfalls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yearners after glory and national prestige -mostly nostalgic royalists -were left free to expand the French empire and carry out France's "civilizing mission" among the Annamese, Tonkinese, Tunisians, Algerians, Moroccans, Togolanders and Tahitians.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the Chinese withdrew in 939, the Annamese turned conquerors in their turn.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cleverly, the Annamese took the best China had to offer—the Chinese classics, the ethics of Confucius, and Mahayana Buddhism.
From Time Magazine Archive
It may be here mentioned, too, that Ts'u made regular use of elephants in battle, which circumstance is another piece of testimony in favour of the Annamese connection of Ts'u.
From Ancient China Simplified by Parker, Edward Harper
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