Dai Viet

Origins and formation

Đại Việt, “Great Việt,” was the official name of several Vietnamese monarchies from the tenth century to the early nineteenth, centered on the region of present-day Hanoi. Đinh Bộ Lĩnh used Đại Cồ Việt in 968. Lý Thánh Tông shortened the name to Đại Việt in 1054. The name lasted until Gia Long, whose reign the page dates 1802–1820, changed it to Việt Nam in 1804. Under Chinese diplomacy the same polity was called the Principality of Giao Chỉ and later the Kingdom of Annam. The guide’s English heading is Dai Viet, without the diacritics. The historical name and the game heading are the same realm. They are not the same spelling.^{[1] [4]}

The page lists eight dynasties between 968 and 1802, with interruptions: the Hồ renamed the country Đại Ngu, and the Ming administered the region as Jiaozhi from 1407 to 1427. From the sixteenth century the state fragmented among the Lê, Mạc, Trịnh, and Nguyễn. The guide’s sentence is narrower. It says medieval Đại Việt, especially under the Trần, stood against Mongol invasions while expanding south into Cham lands. That is one dynasty inside a much longer name. The civilization is not every dynasty from Đinh to Gia Long.^{[1] [4]}

Defining periods

The Trần ruled Đại Việt from 1225 to 1400. Trần Thái Tông took the throne after his uncle Trần Thủ Độ overthrew the Lý. The dynasty defeated three Mongol invasions. The invasion page counts four major campaigns against Đại Việt and Champa, in 1258, 1282–1284, 1285, and 1287–1288. The first, in 1258, took the capital Thăng Long and then turned toward the Song. Later Yuan campaigns, under Kublai, failed to impose direct oversight and ended with Đại Việt and Champa accepting nominal supremacy to avoid further war. Vietnamese historiography treats the war as a victory. Some scholars treat the tributary outcome as a Mongol success. The guide’s “stood against” is the resistance. It does not choose between those two judgments, and it does not date the campaigns.^{[2] [3] [4]}

The published Genghis Khan essay is the founder who died on 18 or 25 August 1227. The 1258 campaign is the next generation. He is not the Trần war. The published Mongolia essay is the empire those armies belonged to, including khans after him. The published Trung Trac essay is a revolt in Han Jiaozhi in the 40s CE. The Đại Việt page itself warns that nationalist history has projected a continuous Vietnamese identity, and a continuous resistance, back through the Han and Tang centuries. This essay does not make the sisters a Trần queen, and it does not make the Trần war a first-century biography.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Southward expansion is a second story. The Trần page says they defeated and vassalized Champa and that the period was a golden age for Vietnamese language and chữ Nôm. The Đại Việt page says the state slowly annexed Cham and Cambodian territory until its borders resembled modern Vietnam. The guide joins resistance and conquest as one dialectic that produced a culture influenced by Chinese sources and not dominated by them. Influence without domination is the guide’s conclusion. The Ming occupation of 1407–1427 shows that the independence was interrupted later. The dialectic is not a straight line to 1804.^{[1] [2] [4]}

Legacy and interpretation

The legacy the history pages support is a name that outlasted the Trần, a war whose success is argued in two directions, and a southern frontier taken from Champa. The guide’s legacy is a unique culture and a strong identity. Identity is a large word for a name that changed in 1804 and for a state that spent long stretches divided. The pages can be read together only if the Trần dates stay visible inside the longer name.^{[1] [4]}

Thành Huế, the guide’s wonder, is a fortified district that must be conquered and that asks for medieval walls. Huế is the later Nguyễn capital, not Thăng Long in 1258. This essay does not date the citadel’s construction from these pages. A wonder that raises a specialist limit is a rule. It is not the Battle of Bạch Đằng in 1288, which the Trần page names as the decisive fight of the third invasion. The Chinese and English pages each give the wonder its own name. The English name is Thành Huế.^{[2] [4] [5]}

A closer look

The ability is named Hịch Tướng Sĩ, a proclamation to the officers. On the guide it pays culture when a fortification is built, scaled to urban population and to game speed, and it adds culture and food on fortifications in tropical terrain. The amounts grow in later ages. Tropical forts are a rule. They are not the river battle of 1288, and they are not the letter the historical title refers to unless a text of that letter is read. This essay does not supply that text. The traditions, Cẩm Bình, Con Kênh, Hành Chính Công, and Ruộng Làng Xã, likewise pile gold, food, and culture onto forts, farms, and tropical vegetation. The Chinese page renders those names in its own words. The English and Chinese trees line up more closely here than on some other pages in this collection. Yields still stay on the guide.^{[4] [5]}

The unique building is a water puppet theater that must sit beside a river and that remembers floods. The settler is a Quận Vương, a commandery prince, who gains culture from nearby tropical tiles. The military unit is Voi Chiến, a war elephant counted as a ranged unit that can move after attacking. Elephants and water puppets are Vietnamese images. They are not the order of battle for 1258, and a settler who prefers the tropics is not the southern annexation of Champa. The Chinese page names them in its own words.^{[3] [4] [5]}

In Civilization VII

The English guide names the ability Hịch Tướng Sĩ, the traditions above, the Water Puppet Theater, the settler Quận Vương, the ranged unit Voi Chiến, and the wonder Thành Huế. The simplified Chinese guide names the same slots in its own words and titles the civilization with its Chinese name. The apex age is Exploration, which is the codex age. The Chinese guide writes that apex with its word for the exploration age, and it writes the modern age with its own word, which the catalog calls Modern. Both pages say the civilization can be bought separately, base game required, and that it is also in the Right to Rule Collection. The English footnote adds the Founders and Settler’s editions. The Chinese footnote names the Founders edition and the same Settler’s edition under its own wording. Owning those, or the collection, means the content is already owned.^{[4] [5]}

The first step back from the fortification bonus is to keep the tenth-century name, the Trần years 1225–1400, the campaigns of 1258, 1285, and 1287–88, and the rename of 1804 apart from a tropical tile. The published Trung Trac essay is the earlier revolt. The published Genghis Khan essay is the founder who died before those campaigns. The published Mongolia essay is the empire.^{[1] [2] [3]}