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Narrated by David Kelly

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Art by Alex Stoica and Bilal Erlangga

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:

https://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

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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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A Roman account of a legendary rebellion.

Differing accounts relay us his origins; supposedly born in Thrace (modern day Bulgaria) to a tribe called the Maedi, legendary Gladiator-cum-general Sparcatus was captured and enslaved some time before 73 BC. A heavyweight gladiator; he, along with around seventy other slaves threw off their chains and raised an army - roaming across Italy for three long years and entering into Roman legend.

This is the Greco-Roman historian Appian's version of that story.

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"Many of their customs are so distant, foreign, and far removed from our own that is difficult to believe that one can find such stark contrasts among us and people who are so civilized."

In 1543 Portuguese traders and missionaries landed in Japan and started the Nanban Trade Period. For half a century, these missionaries and traders interacted with the Japanese, up until the early sixteenth century and the beginning of the isolationist policies of the Edo period. Here we have missionary Luis Frois describing some of the differences he saw between Europeans and the totally foreign Japanese - on subjects ranging from hairstyles to abortion.

Taken from chapters 1, 2, 3 and 14 of the translation 'The First Europeans in Japan, 1585', translated, edited and annotated by Richard K Danford, Robin D Gill and Daniel T Reff and published by Routledge.

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Extracts from My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla by Ben Johnston and Nikola Tesla (1919)

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Here we have Xenophon (431 - 354 BC), the great ancient Greek historian, telling us how children in Spartan society were moulded into the legendary warriors famed throughout history.

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In the 7th century BC the Neo-Assyrian empire was the most powerful in the known world. Stretching from the heartlands of modern day Iraq to the fertile shores of the Mediterranean, it boasted the first professional standing army in history and a foreign policy steeped in excessive cruelty and fear.

This inscription from King Sennacherib, a god in his subjects' eyes, encapsulates the Assyrian propagandistic penchant for brutality and flowery violence in order to instill fear in their enemies and keep their subject kingdoms in line. One of these was the ancient people of Judah whose capital Jerusalem was attacked, ravaged and spared, and the Elamites...who were not so lucky.

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Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum (Medieval Latin for "Deeds of the Bishops of Hamburg") is a historical treatise written between 1073 and 1076 by Adam of Bremen, 11th Century German writer.

It is a history of the see of Hamburg and of Christian missions in northern Europe from the late eighth to the late eleventh century and is the primary source of our knowledge of the history, geography, and ethnography of the Scandinavian and Baltic regions and their peoples before the thirteenth century. Arriving in Bremen in 1066 and soon falling under the tutelage of Archbishop Adalbert, who figures prominently in the narrative, Adam recorded the centuries-long campaign by his church to convert Slavic and Scandinavian peoples. His History vividly reflects the firsthand accounts he received from travelers, traders, and missionaries on the peripheries of medieval Europe.

As the bishops had jurisdiction over the missions to Scandinavia, it also gives a report of the Norse paganism of the period.

The existence of the work was forgotten in the later medieval period, until it was re-discovered in the late 16th century in the library of Sorø Abbey, Denmark.

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Whilst in prison at the end of the Thirteenth Century Italian writer Rustichello da Pisa began to hear extraordinary tales from his cell mate. That man turned out to be a Venetian merchant named Marco Polo. The tales that Polo then narrated to Rustichello eventually became the ‘Book of the Marvels of the World’. Usually known to us today as ‘The Travels of Marco Polo’.

This is Part Two of the Preface, concerning the travels of Marco Polo’s father and uncle.

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This is an original work by the Thirteenth Century writer Rustichello da Pisa and Venetian trader and explorer Marco Polo. Written over seven hundred years ago to record Polo’s extraordinary travels for posterity it remains one of the most important chronicles of the Medieval World, especially in regards to European involvement in the rest of Eurasia.

The words of this video come directly from Rustichello and Polo themselves, translated in the Nineteenth Century by Sir Henry Yule and slightly revised by Henri Cordier .

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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.

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Bibliography:

Boscaro, Adriana. 1973. Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the 1587 Edicts Against Christianity

Oriens Extremus, 20, 2, pp. 219-241.

Cooper, Michael. 2005. The Japanese Mission to Europe, 1582-1590. Folkestone: Global Oriental.

Frois, Luis. 2014. The First Description of Japan, 1585. A critical English-language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan. Abingdon: Routledge.

Lee, Adele. 2018. The English Renaissance and the Far East. Vancouver: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.

Markley, Robert. 2006. The Far East and The English Imagination, 1600-1730. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Massarella, Derek (ed.), & Moran, J. F. (tr.). 2012. Japanese Travellers in Sixteenth-Century Europe. A Dialogue Concerning the Mission of the Japanese Ambassadors to the Roman Curia (1590.) Farnham, UK: Ashgate Publishing (on behalf of the Hakluyt Society.)

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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Here we have the incredible story of the first western samurai, Will Adams, in a letter he wrote in desperation to merchants trading into to the East Indies.

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