Nguyen Dynasty

• b4 dynasty viet. ruled by three families one in the north, one in the middle, and one in the south (south was always uncontrollable and difficult)
• this family took over but then pushed south to siam (burma) and became allies with french ppl and then sucessfully overthrew the other families
• Nyguyen took over north and south in 1802
• they followed the confucist ideals and chinese culture 
• Difficult relationship with france
  • france thought they had an alliance with them but not the case
  • when they asked for trade treaty viet. said no
  • worried about west influence in the area viet try to separate but france really wanted them
  • next emperor burned books with christianity, kicked out missionaries but wanted trade to protect sugar producers
  • france always confused

• ruler of the new Nguyen dynasty
• 1802-1820

• Central vietnam
• main city located is hue the capitial during Nguyen dynasty

• North
• tongking or tongkin
• main city is Hanoi
• red river

• South vietnam
• Main city is Saigon
• Importance in the Mekong river

• Established in 1887
• included vietnam, cambodia, and laos

• Not quite a colony but the foreign nation has a great deal of control

• not much of a war! 1882 viet asks china for help
• french and viet. catholics against viet and china (but china had it's own problems at this time)
• two treaties
  • peace treaty
    • bw/france and china
    • viet is no longer a tributary of china
  • other treaty
    • bw/france and viet
    • french control
    • conchin is french colony
    • annam is french protectorate
    • tongkin is a french protectorate
• Background:
  • french motivation: god gold glory
  • vietnam scared of west influence
  • french take lil parts of viet over decades
    • 1st time us anti catholic event
      • 3rd emperor 1855 execute spanish bishop
      • 1858 spain and france work together in the city of danange capture it and spain backs off
    • 1867-68 fight so. viet take cochin china as a colony so they can send a fleet up mekong river to enter china in Yunnan but doesn't work
    • so they try red river which will work but tongking is choatic and will not let them and they execute catholic viet and missionaries