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Extracts taken from:
The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus published in Vol. III of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1939

Cronica Mexicana
Broken Spears by Miguel Leon-Portilla
Copyright © 1962, 1990 by Miguel Leon-Portilla
Expanded and Updated Edition © 1992 by Miguel Leon-Portilla
Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press, Boston

Letters of Cortes to Emperor Charles V - Vol 1 (1908) translated by Francis Augustus MacNutt

Abel Tasman's journal: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600571h.html

Letter from Emperor Qianlong: https://china.usc.edu/emperor-qianlong-letter-george-iii-1793
From E. Backhouse and J. O. P. Bland, Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1914), pp. 322­-331

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00:00 380: Coming Of The Huns
04:24 1519: The Spaniards Arrive
07:46 1520: Cortes Meets Montezuma
17:00 1642: Abel Tasman and the Maori
22:58 1793: Qianlong´s Letter To George III