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Letter from Genghis Khan Asking for the Secret of Eternal Life // (1219) Invitation to Taoist Monk

By the end of his reign, Genghis Khan was the most powerful man in history. As he oversaw his vast empire, there was one final enemy he found himself facing - his own mortality. Here we have the letter Genghis wrote to the famous Taoist monk Qiu Chuji urging him to cross the vast distance to come to his court, as the Supreme Khan wished to discover the secret of "preserving life" - immortality. Check out the original source (and the story of the monk) at this excellent website: https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/changchun.html If this channel is something you like, if you think saving primary sources is important, head over to the patreon and join up! patreon.com/voicesofthepast — Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to subscribe for new videos every single week! & Let us know in the comments what you’d like to see covered in the future. — Don’t forget to subscribe to my brother's channel History Time, where he makes full length historical documentaries:- https://www.youtube.com/historytime — Music courtesy of:- - Epidemic Sound — Voice actor & editor:- David Kelly We try to use copyright free images at all times. However if we have used any of your artwork or maps then please don't hesitate to contact me and we’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit. Thanks to: Hardcore-Mike [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Soviet Sniper Describes Pursuing Enemy on Eastern Front (1941) // Memoir of Yevgeni Nikolaev

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Pearl Harbour: Inside the USS Arizona and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history -------------- 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 https://www.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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://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, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5410420 German motorcyle By User:Stefan Kühn - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=279154 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

@ArtandContext - A Distinctive Channel From The Editor Of Voices of the Past

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Ancient Chinese Historian Describes The Xiongnu // Before The Mongols // Book of Han (111 AD)

A thousand years before the Mongols, China had to build the world's longest wall to defend against incursions from a truly ancient enemy: The Xiongnu. Here we have an extract from the Book Of Han that describes their customs and origins - a people amongst whom "the strong and robust were held in esteem, while the old and feeble were treated with contempt." https://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/texts/hantxt1.html#beginning If this channel is something you like, if you think saving primary sources is important, head over to the patreon and join up! patreon.com/voicesofthepast — Don’t forget to subscribe to my brother's channel History Time, where he makes full length historical documentaries:- https://www.youtube.com/historytime — Music courtesy of:- - Epidemic Sound — Voice actor & editor:- David Kelly We try to use copyright free images at all times. However if we have used any of your artwork or maps then please don't hesitate to contact me and we’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit. Thanks to: Thomas Lessman Philg88 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27876174 https://worldhistorypics.weebly.com/about.html JesseW900 Khiruge [CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Roman Scholar Describes Ancient China // 1st century AD // Pliny the Elder on the "Seres"

In recognition of the enthusiasm surrounding last week's video on China's perspective, here we have a video exploring the reverse. There are however very few Roman accounts of China that have survived to us - and those that we do have are very limited. Here we have two short extracts from Pliny's magnum opus "Naturalis Historia", in which he describes what he knows of the people of Serica and its surroundings far to the east, and how they in turn affected the Rome he knew at the time. In the second extract he describes a mysterious people (who he again dubs "Seres") whom the people of "Taprobane" (modern day Sri Lanka) apparently crossed a mountain range to trade with. As with our previous video on China, a lot of the locations (and indeed the peoples) mentioned are still debated by scholars. In the coming weeks we will further explore Ancient China's worldview, and descriptions they gave of other cultures that seemed wholly alien to them. Stay tuned for new videos, twice weekly. 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. — Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to subscribe for new videos every single week! & Let us know in the comments what you’d like to see covered in the future. — Don’t forget to subscribe to our other channel History Time, where we make full length historical documentaries:- https://www.youtube.com/historytime — Music courtesy of:- - Epidemic Sound — Voice actor & editor:- David Kelly Are you a budding artist, writer, illustrator, cartographer, or music producer? Send us an email! No matter how professional you are or even if you’re just starting out, we can always use new music and images in my videos. Get in touch! I’d love to hear from you. We try to use copyright free images at all times. However if we have used any of your artwork or maps then please don't hesitate to contact me and we’ll be more than happy to give the appropriate credit. Thanks to: "Yeu Ninje [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)]" Gabagool [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)] Gary Lee Todd [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]