Voices of the Past
Three Historical Accounts of the Dog-Headed Men // Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and Sir John Mandeville
updated
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Extracts taken from:
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919.
Anna Comnena (Komnene). The Alexiad. Edited and translated by Elizabeth A. Dawes. London: Routledge, Kegan, Paul, 1928. (https://origin.web.fordham.edu/Halsall/basis/AnnaComnena-Alexiad-intro.asp)
The Memoirs Of The Conquistador Bernal Diaz Del Castillo
Translated From The Original Spanish By John Ingram Lockhart gutenberg.org/files/32474/32474-h/32474-h.htm
Letters by Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren
https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/the-sinking-of-the-uss-housatonic-by-the-submarine-css-h-l-hunley.html
Bert Chaney's account appears in Moynihan, Michael (ed.) People at War 1914-1918 (1973); Liddell Hart, Basil, The Tanks vol. 1 (1959)
"The Battlefield Debut of the Tank, 1916," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2005).
Edited by Andrew Dixon
Narrated and Script Edited by David Kelly
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00:00 Archimedes´ Inventions (212 BC)
05:38 Greek Fire (1099 AD)
09:00 Mayan Response To Guns (1521)
14:50 The First Submarine (1864)
20:26 The First Tank (1915)
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References:
McLaughlin, R. Rome and the Distant East (2010)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean (2014)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes (2016)
McLaughlin, Kim & Lieu, Rome and China: Points of Contact (2021)
00:00 387 BC
5:41 Troy 1184 BC
15:58 The Kings of Rome 753 BC
29:39 Rome From The Outside 700 BC
37:36 Rise of the Republic 509 BC
48:42 Rome Under Siege 508 BC
1:03:00 The Conflict of the Orders 495 BC
1:11:17 The Twelve Table 450 BC
1:22:20 The Ideal Dictator 458 BC
1:31:09 The Seeds of Expansion 396 BC
1:39:54 The Sack of Rome 387 BC
2:01:15 What If? 374 BC
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Extracts taken from Kirishitan Monogotari in Deus Destroyed: Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan (East Asian Monograph): The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan: 141 (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Paperback – 1 July 1988 by G Elison
brill.com/display/title/57913?language=en
And Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan Olof G. Lidin NIAS Press, 2002
amazon.co.uk/Tanegashima-Arrival-Institute-Studies-Monograph/dp/8791114101
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Art by Alex Stoica and Bilal Erlangga
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Extracts taken from Marquis Ito´s Experience, translated by Teizo Kuramata: archive.org/details/marquisitosexpe00itgoog
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Extracts taken from:
The Anabasis by Xenophon - translated and edited by the legendary Dr Raoul Mclaughlin - please please check out his fantastic work: @drraoulmclaughlin7423
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Art by Alex Stoica
Image Credits from carvings and ancient art:
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Extracts taken from:
Paterculus' Roman History, translated by F.W. Shipley.
James Brundage, "The Crusades: A Documentary History", (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1962)
"Captain Cuellar´s Narrative of the Spanish Armada" translated by Robert Crawford 1897
"The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier" by Jakob Walter
Account of Second Lieutenant David Rodger Fyffe in "Gallipoli: The Dardanelles Disaster in Soldiers' Words and Photographs" by Richard van Emden and Stephen Chambers:
amazon.com/Gallipoli-Dardanelles-Disaster-Soldiers-Photographs/dp/1408856158
Editing by David Kelly and Luiz Murphy
Image Editing by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel: @ArtandContext
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00:00 9 AD Battle of the Teutoburg Forest
05:09 1187 Battle of Hattin
11:12 1588 The Spanish Armada
17:54 1812 Napoleon´s Invasion of Russia
25:31 1915 Landing at Gallipoli
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Extracts taken from:
Boruwłaski, Joseph: Memoirs Of Count Boruwłaski: Containing A Sketch Of His Travels, With An Account Of His Reception At The Different Courts Of Europe, Andrews, Durham, 1820
Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel: @ArtandContext
Narrated and Script Edited by David Kelly
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Written and Researched by Dr Raoul McLaughlin: youtube.com/channel/UCGk9VXhk_l__aLVp4Yp90lw
Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel: @ArtandContext
Original Art by Alex Stoica
Narrated and Script Edited by David Kelly
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
References:
McLaughlin, R. Rome and the Distant East (2010)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean (2014)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes (2016)
McLaughlin, Kim & Lieu, Rome and China: Points of Contact (2021)
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00:00 The Edge of The Empire
06:38 West: Beyond Carthage (146 BC)
17:34 East: Hunting Mithridates (65 BC)
28:11 South: The Incense Trails (25 BC)
37:53 Further East: The Counterlanders (52 AD)
49:17 Further South: The Source of the Nile (61 AD)
01:04:35 North: The Forests of Germania (61 AD)
01:14:48 Further North: Advance and Engage! (43 - 85 AD)
01:23:46 Onward To Thule! (84 AD)
01:35:16 The Map (150 AD)
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Huge thanks to @drraoulmclaughlin7423 for his work compiling the sources, from:
Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny The Elder, Travels of Egeria
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Herodotus section art by Bilal Erlangga
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00:00 Herodotus (454 BC)
04:40 D. Siculus - Greek Visiting Egypt (60 BC)
09:32 Strabo - Greco-Roman with the Roman Army (20 BC)
13:18 Pliny The Elder - Roman Historian (77 AD)
18:06 Egeria - Roman Christian (381 AD)
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Extracts taken from: Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai by Katsu Kokichi (Author), Teruko Craig (Translator, Introduction)
University of Arizona Press (July 1, 1991)
https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/musuis-story
Edited by Douglas Baker and David Kelly
Narration by David Kelly
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
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Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel: @ArtandContext
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Art by Lachlan (Feature History)
Art by Bilal Erlangga
Stock footage from Storyblocks and Artlist. Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
Excerpts from:
The History of Herodotus
Translated into English by G. C. Macaulay
The Periplus of Hanno
Translated by Wilfred Harvey Schoff
Germania by Tacitus
Translated by Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodriff
Weilue Translation from China and the Roman Orient: Researches Into Their Ancient and Mediæval Relations
by Friedrich Hirth
Ammianus Marcellinus in three volumes. Vol.2 Translated by Rolfe, John Carew
00:00 Herodotus on The Edges of the Earth (430 BC)
05:01 Hanno The Navigator on West Africa (5th Century BC)
08:48 Tacitus on Scandinavia (98 AD)
13:23 Ancient China on Rome (240 AD)
20:05 Rome on Ancient China (380 AD)
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Extracts taken from Anonymus and Master Roger The Deeds of the Hungarians/Epistle to the Sorrowful Lament upon the Destruction of the Kingdom of Hungary by the Tatars edited by Martyn C. Rady, Laszlo Veszpremy, Janos M. Bak Central European University Press, 1 January 2010
ceupress.com/book/anonymus-and-master-roger
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Art by Carlos López
Art by Alex Stoica
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00:00 Introduction
04:52 Beginnings
11:07 The Shaman Queen 297 AD
16:15 The Rise of Buddhism 552 AD
21:50 The Fall of Korea 663 AD
27:39 Choosing A Capital 736 AD
37:45 Rise of the Emishi 774 AD
46:48 Embassies to China 717 AD
52:43 The Heian Court 1000 AD
56:59 Shogun 1184
1:02:12 Horsemen of the Apocalypse 1274
Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel: @A@ArtandContextNarrated and Script Edited by David Kelly
Thumbnail Image by Ettore Mazza instagram.com/ettore.mazza
Images by Alex Stoica, Bilal Erlangga.
Kofun imagery made based on [mapps.gsi.go.jp/maplibSearch.do#1 National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs)], Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism
References:
Christensen, J.A (1981.) Nichiren. Leader of Buddhist Reformation in Japan. Fremont, CA:
Jain Publishing Company.
Farris, W. W. (2009.) Japan to 1600. A Social and Economic History. Honolulu: Hawai’i
University Press.
Harding, C. (2020.) The Japanese. A History in Twenty Lives. London: Allen Lane.
Kumar, A. (2009.) Globalizing the Prehistory of Japan. New York: Routledge.
Matsumoto, H. (2009.) The origin of the Japanese race based on genetic markers of
immunoglobulin G. Proceedings of the Japan Academy. Available from: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3524296
Needham, J. and Ronan, C. A. (1995.) The Shorter Science and Civilisation in China:
Volume 5. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kirkland, R. (1997.) The Sun and the Throne. The Origins of the Royal Descent Myth in
Ancient Japan, Numen, 44, (2), 109-152.
Sei Shonagon (tr. Arthur Waley.) 2011. The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon. Tuttle: Tokyo.
Soka Gakkai. The Nichiren Library. Available from: nichirenlibrary.org
World History Encyclopedia. Daily Life in Ancient China. Available from:
worldhistory.org/article/890/daily-life-in-ancient-china
Wang, Z. (2005.) Ambassadors from the Islands of the Immortals. Honolulu: Hawai’i University Press.
#ancientjapan
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Extracts taken from:
Records of the Grand Historian by Sima Qian. Translation by Friedrich Hirth, Journal of the American Oriental Society, vol 37 1917.
The Saga of Erik the Red translation in The Discovery of America by the Northmen, in the Tenth Century, with Notices of the Early Settlements of the Irish in the Western Hemisphere by North Ludlow Beamish 1841.
Ibn Fadlan on the Rus, translation by James E. Montgomery. Thanks to the Library of Arabic Literature for the use of this translation:
nyupress.org/9781479899890/mission-to-the-volga
Kirishitan Monogatari translation from DEUS DESTROYED The Image of Christianity in Early Modern Japan by George Elison
Published by COUNCIL ON EAST ASIAN STUDIES
HARVARD UNIVERSITY and distributed by HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1988
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674199620
James King on Shaka Zulu Nathaniel Isaacs, Travels and Adventures in Eastern Africa, with a Sketch of Natal by Nathaniel Isaacs (2 Volumes, London, 1836), I, pp. 57–63
Researched by historydavid
Stock footage from Storyblocks or Artlist, music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
00:00 Zhang Qian on The Greeks (125 BC)
04:46 Thorvald Eiriksson In America (1003)
07:50 Ibn Fadlan on the Viking Rus´ (921)
13:50 The First Christians in Japan (1543)
19:49 James King on Shaka Zulu (1825)
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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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Art by Alex Stoica
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist, Footage from Artgrid and Storyblocks.
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
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Extracts taken from:
Grayson, G. W. (1988). A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W. Grayson. The Civilization of the American Indian series. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
Edited by Manuel Rubio
Art by Alex Stoica
Sketches and Art by Alfred Waud
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Written by WL George for the New York Herald May 7th 1922:
loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1/?sp=87&st=text
Edited by Manuel Rubio
Music from Epidemic Sound/Artlist
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Written by Chris Feely of @History Dose
Edited and Designed by Manuel Rubio
Narrated and Script Edited by David Kelly
Thumbnail Image by Ettore Mazza instagram.com/ettore.mazza
Images by Alex Stoica
Further images by Matthew Cartwright
00:00 Introduction
05:46 Sea People
12:10 Pax Romana
17:04 Medieval Chaos
26:00 The New World
34:52 The Barbary Pirate
42:43 Rise of the Buccaneer
56:10 The Golden Age
1:16:54 The Fall
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Extracts taken from:
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas Translated by Alexander Walker. From Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol. 8. Edited by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, and A. Cleveland Coxe. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886.) http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/infancythomas-c-roberts.html
The Gospel of Nicodemus translated by Alexander Walker: en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_VIII/Apocrypha_of_the_New_Testament/Christ%27s_Descent_into_Hell:_Latin._First_Version/Chapter_1
The Gospel of Judas translated by Mark M Mattison:
gospels.net/judas
The Apocalypse of Paul Translated by George W. MacRae and William R. Murdock
Huge thanks to Manuel Rubio, our very talented editor.
Thanks to Alex Stoica for his superb thumbnail.
00:00 The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
05:59 The Gospel of Nicodemus
10:03 The Gospel of Judas
14:28 The Apocalypse of Paul
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Extracts from:
Gallic Wars by Julius Caesar translated by Henry John Edwards https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Caesar/Gallic_War/2*.html
Villehardouin, Geoffroi de; Joinville, Jean; Shaw, Margaret R.B. (translator), Chronicles of the Crusades, (1963)
The Diary of a Manchu Soldier in Seventeenth-Century China
"My Service in the Army", by Dzengseo By Nicola Di Cosmo
routledge.com/The-Diary-of-a-Manchu-Soldier-in-Seventeenth-Century-China-My-Service/Cosmo/p/book/9780415544474
The Recollections of Rifleman Harris
Book by Benjamin Randell Harris en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Recollections_of_Rifleman_Harris
Diary of Private Fred Bull Everyman at War (1930), edited by C. B. Purdom.
Researched and edited by Manuel Rubio.
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza
Art by Bilal Erlanga.
00:00 57 BC Ancient Rome
05:12 1250 The Crusades
8:44 1680 Qing Dynasty China
12:50 1807 The Peninsular War
18:42 1916 The Somme
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Extracts taken from Leaves From A Russian Diary by Pitirim Sorokin:
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b4180720&view=1up&seq=7&skin=2021
Edited by our new editor Manuel Rubio - legend.
Footage from:
Anniversary of the Revolution (Dziga Vertov, 1918)
Kino-Pravda (Dziga Vertov, 1922)
Kino-Eye (Dziga Vertov, 1924)
October (Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov, 1927)
You can redeem rewards using "VoicesofthePast' be quick though, it's only valid until 17th June 2022 and for new players only.
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Extract taken from Igor De Rachewiltz's superb translation of The Secret History of the Mongols published by Brill: brill.com/view/title/17746
Edited by our new editor Manuel Rubio. Lots of amazing stuff coming from him. Get excited.
Art by the fantastic Alex Stoica.
Thanks for watching.
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Text from Napoleon in Egypt : Al-Jabarti's Chronicle of the French Occupation, 1798, translated. by S. Moreh, with permission by Markus Wiener Publisher, Princeton NJ 08542
amazon.com/Napoleon-Egypt-Abd-al-Rahman-Al-Jabarti/dp/1558763376
Art by Alex Stoica
Thumbnail Image by French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 – 1904)
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Extracts taken from The Travels of Reverend Olafur Egilsson: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627.
by Olafur Egilsson (Author), Karl Smari Hreinsson (Translator), Adam Nichols (Translator)
amazon.com/Travels-Reverend-Olafur-Egilsson-Barbary/dp/0813228697
Thumbnail Art and Art by Alex Stoica.
Stock footage taken from Videoblocks and Artgrid.
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.
Image Credits:
Westman Islands By Bruce McAdamCamera location62° 55′ 41.37″ N, 20° 27′ 25.92″ WView this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap - originally posted to Flickr as Vestmannaeyjar, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6994388
Grass Roof Houses By michael clarke stuff - originally posted to Flickr as Grass-roof houses, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7014145
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Extracts taken from:
Henry Rink Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1875)
books.google.es/books?id=3pTYAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
Diary of Jacob Roggeveen
https://www.easterisland.travel/easter-island-facts-and-info/history/ship-logs-and-journals/jacob-roggeveen-1722/
Diary of John Ross
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015073755715&view=1up&seq=220&skin=2021&q1=Arctic%20highlanders
THE ACCOUNT OF COOK'S VISIT BY TE HORETA TANIWHA
White, Ancient History of the Maori, Vol. V, pp. 121-8
http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-BeaDisc-d1-t2.html
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid
Thumbnail Image by Alex Stoica
Artwork by Bilalerlannga
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Extracts taken from:
Celsus, as quote by Origen:
http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/celsus.html
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid
Image Credits:
Jupiter Biser Todorov, CC BY 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Lector Priest By Djehouty - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=85789152
Qumran Scroll By Shai Halevi on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority - Enlargement of image at Wikimedia-Commonsupload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/1039-1_for_screen.jpg, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87731788
Sol By I, Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=14797121
Plato By Zde - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97089963Public Feast By User:MatthiasKabel - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6737712
Apollo By Livioandronico2013 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36412498
Roman mosaic By Jerzystrzelecki - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=23726316
Mosaic Virgil By Giorces - Self-photographed, CC BY 2.5, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2266859
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Extracts taken from:
"Red Army Sniper A Memoir of the Eastern Front in World War II"
By Yevgeni Nikolaev, translated by David Foreman
30th Nov 2017, Published by Greenhill Books
amazon.com/Red-Army-Sniper-Eastern-Greenhill-ebook/dp/B09K4Q3RW9/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Thumbnail art by Alex Stoica: http://bananaartstudio.com
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid
Footage taken from the film "Sniper" (1931)
Image Credits:
Leningrad Front By RIA Novosti archive, image 58228 / Vsevolod Tarasevich / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579350
Soviet Soldiers:
By RIA Novosti archive, image 308 / Boris Kudoyarov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18134125
By RIA Novosti archive, image 662767 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579493
By RIA Novosti archive, image 594949 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579499
By RIA Novosti archive, image 660791 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579536
By RIA Novosti archive, image 2675 / B. Vdovenko / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579597
By RIA Novosti archive, image 602161 / Zelma / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579657
By RIA Novosti archive, image 61150 / Alpert / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579747
By RIA Novosti archive, image 62126 / Boris Kudoyarov / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579756
By RIA Novosti archive, image 44732 / Zelma / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579770
By RIA Novosti archive, image 633408 / Anatoliy Garanin / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15579774
German snipers:
By Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-216-0417-19 / Dieck / CC-BY-SA 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 de, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5410420
German motorcyle By User:Stefan Kühn - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=279154
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Extracts taken from:
Ilya Radozhitskii's Campaign Memoirs (Campaign Memoirs of the Artilleryman)
Translated by Alexander Mikaberidze
The Napoleonic Society of Georgia (2011)
amazon.com/RadozhitskiiS-Campaign-Memoirs-Alexander-Mikaberidze/dp/1105168719
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid
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Extracts taken from:
True History: An Account of Cannibal Captivity in Brazil by Hans Staden
Translated by Sir Richard Francis Burton
archive.org/details/captivityhansst00burtgoog/page/n135/mode/2up
Art by Bilalerlangga.
Thumbnail art by Alex Stoica.
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid
Image Credits:
Tupi Housing By Valter Campanato/ABr - http://www.agenciabrasil.gov.br/media/imagens/2007/08/28/dsc_0100.jpg/view, CC BY 3.0 br, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4201804
By Wilfredor - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50945629
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Extracts taken from:
Plutarch on Lucullus
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0046
Illustrated news notice of Nuremberg
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
History of New England by John Winthrop
archive.org/details/winthropsjourna05hosmgoog
Toen shōsetsu
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune
The San Francisco call. [volume], November 22, 1896, Page 13, Image 13
chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1896-11-22/ed-1/seq-13
Art by Bilalerlangga.
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks
Image Credits:
Skull By Wapondaponda - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6944772
00:00 74 BC The Mithridatic Wars
02:02 1561 Nuremberg
04:30 1639 Massachusetts
05:26 1803 Edo Japan
09:08 1896 Oakland, California
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Extracts taken from:
The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake
(Who Accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762)
gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65256/pg65256-images.html
Thumbnail by Alex Stoica: artstation.com/banana_art_studio
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks
Image Credits:
Sutton Harbour: britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1902-0818-269
Exeter cathedral interior By Edward Swift - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51286534
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00:00 New Spain
05:18 Mexico City
10:00 Spain
16:52 Onwards to Rome
23:56 The English
31:20 Japan
Written by Thomas Lockley.
Check out his book on Yasuke: amazon.com/-/es/Geoffrey-Girard/dp/1335044981/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=yasuke&qid=1615050333&sr=8-1
Edited and narrated by David Kelly.
Art by Matthew Cartwright:
mattcartwrightillustration.com
And Alexstoica artstation.com/banana_art_studio
*************BIBLIOGRAPHY IN A PINNED COMMENT***********
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Artlist.io
Image Credits:
Sendai Shrine By Tak1701d - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27807236
Church of the Delcazas Reales By Dorieo - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43847006By PMRMaeyaert - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35798929
By Richard Mortel from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales, Madrid, 16th century, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69791296
Washi Paper By Mizu basyo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25344517By Mizu basyo - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25344516
Basilica By Jean-Pol GRANDMONT - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19020259Pauline Chapel By Franco Vannini from Sansepolcro (AR), Italy - aDSC03538, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72722874By Nicola Quirico - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=57096833
Japan Times article on Coria del RioChristian in Japan Board By Zunkir - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=90943794Hasekura Christian Objects By No machine-readable author provided. World Imaging assumed (based on copyright claims). - No machine-readable source provided. Own work assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=870913Library Vatican By Dnalor 01 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32425597
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Extracts taken from:
THE NARRATIVE OF ALVAR NUÑEZ CABEÇA DE VACA EDITED BY FREDERICK W. HODGE OF THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
gutenberg.org/cache/epub/42841/pg42841-images.html
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Stock footage from Videoblocks
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Taken from the text of the Nestorian Stele:
en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Nestorian_Monument:_An_Ancient_Record_of_Christianity_in_China/Translation_of_the_Nestorian_Inscription
Translation of the Nestorian Inscription by Jingjing, translated by Alexander Wylie
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Image Credits:
By 三猎 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54442030
Pagoda By J. Coster - Photographed by J. Coster on visit to the pagoda on May 31, 2003.copyright J. Coster. Thanks, Jcoster 06:14, 13 Aug 2003 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6376071
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00:00 Introduction
07:25 China
35:54 Rome
1:13:01 The Fall
Written and Researched by Dr Raoul McLaughlin: youtube.com/channel/UCGk9VXhk_l__aLVp4Yp90lw
Edited and Narrated by David Kelly
Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist
Art by Alex Stoica and Bilerlannga
References:
McLaughlin, R. Rome and the Distant East (2010)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean (2014)
McLaughlin, R. The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes (2016)
McLaughlin, Kim & Lieu, Rome and China: Points of Contact (2021)
Hill, J. Through the Jade Gate: China to Rome (2015)
Hansen, V, The Silk Road (2011)
Boulnois, Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & Merchants (2008)
Sampson, G. The Defeat of Rome: Crassus, Carrhae and the Invasion of the East (2008)
Sheldon, R. Rome’s Wars in Parthia (2010)
Image Credits:
Warring States Map By SY - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=64875198
Qin Chariot By Jmhullot - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40128332
Mausoleum of Qin By Aaron Zhu, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61014258
Book of former Han By Gisling - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5172082
Shangyrak By Man77 - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4911212
Ger By Francisco Anzola - Gher (Yurt) settlement, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32182564
Yurt camp By Benjamin Goetzinger - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=78895467
Han Dynasty Tower By The Real Bear - Summer Vacation 2007, 263 - Watchtower In The Morning Light, Dunhuang, Gansu Province, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7306049
Pottery Figurine By Zcm11 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=32568479
Fergana Horse By G41rn8 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=46941326
Shielbearers By Shizhao - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28467376
Ancient Rome model photo by Jean-Pierre Dalbéra
Marcus Crassus By Following Hadrian - flickr.com/photos/41523983@N08/14649017884, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=93823616
Statue of Tiberius By I, Sailko, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9944178
Upchurch horde Ahala, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
vima coin By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=54732892
Homer H. Dubs by Bassano Ltd half-plate film negative, 5 July 1960
Testudo Trajan Column By CristianChirita (talk · contribs) (Own work), CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=819860
Roman inscription By Kritzolina - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80756276
Castrum at Masada By David Shankbone - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3270982
Legio VI Ferrata By אור פ - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40684915
Emperor Trajan By Hartmann Linge - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11792308
Trajan and Dacia By Joe Mabel - photo by Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=837749
Ancient Roman glassware By Sailko - Own work, CC BY 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97567508
Whu Zhu Coins By 三猎 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=47275203
Nero Coin By Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4249998
Vespasian By Originally uploaded by user:shakko - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3267302
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Extracts from The Life of Saladin by Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad translated by Claude Reignier Conder
(1897) Published by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund
Soundtrack licensed from Epidemic Sound/Artlist.
Footage from Videoblocks.
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Extracts from THE FIRST CRUSADE: THE ACCOUNTS OF EYE-WITNESSES AND PARTICIPANTS
BY AUGUST C. KREY PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS 1921
archive.org/stream/firstcrusadeacco00kreyuoft/firstcrusadeacco00kreyuoft_djvu.txt
and the translation by Martha Evelyn McGinty:
CHRONICLE OF THE FIRST CRUSADE
(Fulcheri Carnotensis Historia Hierosolymitana)
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS 1941
babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0072704612&view=1up&format=plaintext&seq=1&skin=2021
Soundtrack licensed from Epidemic Sound/Artlist.
Footage from Videoblocks.
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Extracts taken from "The Cosmotheoros" or "The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, or, Conjectures concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets" by Christiaan Huygens (translated from the Latin, published in 1698)
Soundtrack licensed from Epidemic Sound/Artlist.
Footage from Videoblocks.
Image Credits:
By jonjanego - flickr.com/photos/jonjanego/2777527481, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12114789
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Extracts taken from "Ranald MacDonald: the narrative of his early life on the Columbia under the Hudson’s Bay Company’s regime; of his experiences in the Pacific whale fishery; and of his great adventure to Japan; with a sketch of his later life on the western frontier, 1824–1894" ed. W. S. Lewis and Naojiro Murakami.
Beautiful artwork by Matthew Cartwright.
Soundtrack licensed from Epidemic Sound/Artlist.
Footage from Videoblocks.
Image Credits:
Japanese Traditional House By JayWalsh - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30719844
Traditional Hearth By Reggaeman - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7523852
Hotel By Boltor - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=87671026
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Extracts taken from "A Hangman’s Diary: Being the Authentic Journal of Master Franz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg 1573–1617."
Translated by C. Calvert and A.W. Gruner.
Published by D. Appleton, second impression October, 1928.
Soundtrack licensed from Epidemic Sound/Artlist.
Footage from Videoblocks.
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Extracts taken from "THE MEMOIRS OF THE CONQUISTADOR BERNAL DÍAZ DEL CASTILLO
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF CONTAINING A TRUE AND FULL ACCOUNT
OF THE DISCOVERY AND CONQUEST OF MEXICO AND NEW SPAIN."
TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL SPANISH BY
JOHN INGRAM LOCKHART, F.R.A.S.
gutenberg.org/ebooks/32475
Image credits:
Cortes destroying his ships By AlejandroLinaresGarcia - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7924717
Cortes and his soldiers By José Luis Pescador - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=61937701
Feathered Serpent Statue By Jami Dwyer - flickr.com/photos/jamidwyer/2844706070/in/set-72157606952714490, CC BY-SA 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4973343
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Extracts taken from "The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe by Kume Kunitake, Graham Healey, Chushichi Tsuzuki, Martin Collcutt, Andrew Cobbing, P. F. Kornicki, Eugene Soviak."
amazon.com/Iwakura-Embassy-1871-1873-Extraordinary-Plenipotentiarys/dp/4901617001
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Japanese Armor in Tower of London By Tristan Surtel - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=83067677
Assyrian Carving By Jase Curtis from London, England - British Museum, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=105247592
Vase By Paul Hudson from United Kingdom - British Museum - 30 minute photo challenge, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97279374
Cup By Paul Hudson from United Kingdom - British Museum - 30 minute photo challenge, CC BY 2.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=97279356
Chocolate Factory By Photo: Myrabella / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22243749
Dutch East India Company By Stephencdickson - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=72939415
Images of Venice By Leo Wehrli - These images are from the collection of the ETH-Bibliothek and have been published on Wikimedia Commons as part of a cooperation with Wikimedia CH. Corrections and additional information are welcome., CC BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68554473
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Extracts taken from "The Iwakura Embassy, 1871-1873: A True Account of the Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary's Journey of Observation through the United States of America and Europe by Kume Kunitake, Graham Healey, Chushichi Tsuzuki, Martin Collcutt, Andrew Cobbing, P. F. Kornicki, Eugene Soviak." amazon.com/Iwakura-Embassy-1871-1873-Extraordinary-Plenipotentiarys/dp/4901617001
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Extracts from "Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia during his tour through Europe in A.D. 1873"
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Extracts from My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Ben Johnston and Nikola Tesla (1919)
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Extracts taken from:
A Fatalist at War by Rudolf Binding - Translated by Ian F.D. Morrow (Allen & Unwin, 1929)
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Extracts from "A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama 1497-1499" translated by E. G. RAVENSTEIN, F.R.G.S.
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00:00 Introduction
3:14 Japan: The Idea
6:43 The Journey
10:04 Portugal
14:56 Spain
21:23 Italy and Rome
29:33 Home Again
Written by Thomas Lockley.
Check out his book on Yasuke: amazon.com/-/es/Geoffrey-Girard/dp/1335044981/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=yasuke&qid=1615050333&sr=8-1
Edited and narrated by David Kelly.
Art by Matthew Cartwright.
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Boscaro, Adriana. 1973. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the 1587 Edicts Against Christianity
Oriens Extremus, 20, 2, pp. 219-241.
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Moran, J. F. 1996. The Japanese and the Jesuits. Alessandro Valignano in sixteenth-century Japan. Abingdon: Routledge.
Üçerler, M. Antoni J. 2003. Alessandro Valignano: man, missionary, and writer
Renaissance Studies, 17, 3, pp. 337-366
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