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Taken from 'History, manners, and customs of the Indian nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighboring states' by Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
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Taken from 'History, manners, and customs of the Indian nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighboring states' by Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823
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![5 Bizarre Accounts From History of UFO Sightings (74 BC - 1896) // Primary Sources
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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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1561_celestial_phenomenon_over_Nuremberg
History of New England by John Winthrop
https://archive.org/details/winthropsjourna05hosmgoog
Toen shōsetsu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utsuro-bune
The San Francisco call. [volume], November 22, 1896, Page 13, Image 13
https://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
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Skull By Wapondaponda - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://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 5 Bizarre Accounts From History of UFO Sightings (74 BC - 1896) // Primary Sources](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_PaQmnq_nAc/mqdefault.jpg)

![The Entire History of Ancient Japan
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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 https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazza
Images by Alex Stoica, Bilal Erlangga.
Kofun imagery made based on [https://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: https://www.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: https://www.nichirenlibrary.org/
World History Encyclopedia. Daily Life in Ancient China. Available from:
https://www.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 The Entire History of Ancient Japan](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_m9_ZiqLg5I/mqdefault.jpg)
![Ancient Chinese Monk Describes Ancient India // 4th century Faxian // Primary Source
The journey of Faxian is one of the most incredible in human history. By foot, he traveled from his home in central China to the far away land of India - where he encountered a surprisingly tolerant society, some truly ancient ruins and the first recorded hospital.
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- Epidemic Sound
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![Justinian: The Headless Emperor // Procopius Secret History // 6th century AD Primary Source
...for one of these asserted that he would rise suddenly from the imperial throne...and the head of Justinian would disappear suddenly, but the rest of his body seemed to keep making these same long circuits...
Here we have a Halloween special for you - Procopius Secret History, which portrays the then Emperor Justinian as not only cruel and incompetent but actually possessed by demons.
Rediscovered centuries after its writing in the Vatican Library, it was finally published in 1623. Possibly the result of Procopius disillusionment or even as a type of insurance to be released if anything were to happen to him, it covers the same period of Byzantine history as his History of the Wars; featuring all the same players but completely different in tone.
How do we actually know about history? Voices of the Past is a channel dedicated to recreating the original accounts from the people who lived through events, or who lived far closer to them than we do today. We do this word for word, with an accompanying soundtrack of rousing music and images.
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