The
Vietnamese Drive to the South
•Vietnam
continued to enjoy advantages over
other rivals in Indochina.
•Their main
adversaries were the Chams and
Khmers, who resided in the southern portions
of the region.
•The
Vietnamese remained less interested in the hill peoples, whom they regarded as savages.
•Between the
11th and 18th centuries, the Vietnamese drove the Chams from their lands in the south.
•Following the
defeat of the Chams, the Vietnamese
expanded their territories at the expense
of the Khmers.
•By the
eighteenth century, the Vietnamese had
successfully taken much of the land surrounding
the Mekong River delta.
