Most Extraordinary Accounts from History of First Contact Between Cultures // From Vikings to Maori

Russian Soldier Portrays True Terror of Napoleon's 1812 Invasion // Memoir of Ilya Radozhitskii

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch American Saint Nick and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history -------------- Extracts taken from: Ilya Radozhitskii's Campaign Memoirs (Campaign Memoirs of the Artilleryman) Translated by Alexander Mikaberidze The Napoleonic Society of Georgia (2011) https://www.amazon.com/RadozhitskiiS-Campaign-Memoirs-Alexander-Mikaberidze/dp/1105168719 Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist Stock footage from Videoblocks and Artgrid Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Aztec Perspective on First Contact with Europeans // 16th cent. Florentine Codex // Primary Source

Mountains on the sea that signalled the coming apocalypse. This was the news that terrified the Aztecs and most of all their leader Moctezuma II. Here we have their description of first contact with Europe, researched and written down by Bernardino de Sahagún and the Nahuatl people throughout the second half of the 16th century. 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 If this channel is something you like, if you think saving primary sources is important, head over to the patreon and join up! https://www.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: Diego Rivera / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) Madman2001 De Ckn8u - Trabajo propio, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48588870 Hans Hillewaert British Museum Asele S. www.todocolección.net José Luis Pescador - Cortes en Veracruz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Most Extraordinary Accounts from History of First Contact Between Cultures // From Vikings to Maori

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch The Bookmakers and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history -------------- Extracts taken from: Henry Rink Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1875) https://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 https://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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Eyewitness Portrays The 1762 Native American Embassy to England (Diary of Henry Timberlake)

Claim your SPECIAL OFFER for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. Start your free trial TODAY so you can watch Witch Hunt in Salem and the rest of MagellanTV’s history collection: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history -------------- Extracts taken from: The Memoirs of Lieut. Henry Timberlake (Who Accompanied the Three Cherokee Indians to England in the Year 1762) https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/65256/pg65256-images.html Thumbnail by Alex Stoica: https://www.artstation.com/banana_art_studio Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist Stock footage from Videoblocks Image Credits: Sutton Harbour: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1902-0818-269 Exeter cathedral interior By Edward Swift - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=51286534 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Earliest European Mention of Japan // Marco Polo Describes Mongol Invasion of 'Chipangu' (1281)

Here we have Marco Polo telling the Mongol side of the invasion of 1281, and the catastrophes that followed - and the first European mention of the mysterious island of 'Chipangu'. Taken from the translation by Henry Yule. Video actor and editor: David Kelly If this channel is something you like, if you think saving primary sources is important, head over to the patreon and join up! https://www.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 Artlist.io 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: A. Omer Karamollaoglu Kublai Khanそらみみ / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) Hideyuki KAMON / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0) James St. John Pearls By Copyright © National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=278362http://record.museum.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mouko/e_04.html Kyushu University: https://web.archive.org/web/20131019155043/http://record.museum.kyushu-u.ac.jp/mouko/index.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]