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**Agriculture and Economy**


 * Based mainly on water-rice civilization
 * Also included handicrafts, hunting and gathering, husbandry and fishing and bronze casting.
 * Lac Lords controlled the communal settlements
 * Organized construction and maintenance of dikes and regulate water flow
 * Van Lang people also grew other grains, beans and livestock such as buffaloes, chickens and pigs
 * Transportation and communication provided by dug out canoes [[image:Agri.jpg width="424" height="272" align="right"]]
 * Buffalo used to plough
 * Pottery still primitive
 * Bricks and tiles used for building
 * Rent paid to rulers
 * Other duties included serving in the army
 * Based mostly on agriculture but handicrafts were encouraged
 * Work sites opened for weapon making, weaving, minting, ship building and others
 * Palaces and pagodas built more
 * Ports opened for trading ships
 * Coins taken away and replaced with bills


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