Contemporary Accounts of 536: The Worst Year To Be Alive in History

Disoriented Japanese Historians Characterize Strange First Europeans

Play War Thunder now with my link, and get a massive, free bonus pack including vehicles, boosters and more: https://playwt.link/voicesofthepast2024 War Thunder is a highly detailed vehicle combat game containing over 2000 playable tanks, aircrafts and ships spanning over 100 years of development. Immerse yourself completely in dynamic battles with an unparalleled combination of realism and approachability. ----------------------------- 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 https://brill.com/display/title/57913?language=en And Tanegashima: The Arrival of Europe in Japan Olof G. Lidin NIAS Press, 2002 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tanegashima-Arrival-Institute-Studies-Monograph/dp/8791114101 Edited and Image Curation by Manuel Rubio - check out his amazing channel for more: @ArtandContext Narrated and Script Edited by David Kelly Music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

How Japan Achieved Great Power Status in Only 40 Years (1865 - 1905) // Japanese History Documentary

Get your special offer for MagellanTV here: https://try.magellantv.com/voicesofthepast. It's an exclusive offer for our viewers! Start your free trial today. MagellanTV is a new kind of streaming service run by filmmakers with 3,000+ documentaries! Check out our personal recommendation and MagellanTV’s exclusive playlists: https://www.magellantv.com/explore/history -------------- 00:00 Introduction 04:20 The End of the Beginning 10:31 Japan Meets The World 18:00 Business Opportunities 20:33 Meat 24:57 Upgrading The Military 30:22 Rebellion 37:11 Big in the West 44:36 Climbing the Ladder 48:15 Tension with the West 52:58 The First Rank of Nations Written by Thomas Lockley. Check out his book on Yasuke: https://www.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. — Music courtesy of:- Epidemic Sound Artlist.io Bibliography: Beasley, William. 1995. Japan Encounters the Barbarian. Japanese Travellers in America     and Europe. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. Bird, Isabella. 2006. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan. Saitama: Japan and Stuff Press. Checkland, Olive. 2003. Japan and Britain after 1859 – Creating Cultural Bridges. London and New York: Routledge. Cwiertka, Katarzyna. 2006. Modern Japanese Cuisine. Food, Power and National Identity. London: Reaktion Books. De Coningh, Assendelft. 2012. A Pioneer in Yokohama. A Dutchman’s Adventures in the New Treaty Port. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing. Downer, Lesley. 2003. Madame Sadayakko. The Geisha who Bewitched the West. New York: Gotham Books. Esposito, Gabriele. 2020. Japanese Armies 1868-1877. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. Fukuzawa, Yukichi and Kiyooka, Eiichi (tr.) 1966. The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa. New York: Columbia University Press. Gardiner, Michael. 2007. At the Edge of Empire. The Life of Thomas Blake Glover.     Edinburgh: Birlinn. Hillsborough, Romulus. 2005. Shinsengumi. The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps. Tokyo,     Rutland, and Singapore: Tuttle. Jacob, Frank. 2014. Japanism, Pan-Asianism and Terrorism. A Short History of the Amur     Society (The Black Dragons) 1901-1945. Bethesda, Dublin and Palo Alto:     Academica. Jansen, Marius. 1994. Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration. New York: Columbia      University Press. Jansen, Marius. 2000. The Making of Modern Japan. Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. Koyama, Noboru. 2007. Japanese Tattooists and the British Royal Family during the Meiji     Period, in Britain and Japan Biographical Portraits Volume VI (Hugh Cortazzi ed.)     Folkestone: Global Oriental.  Kokaze, Hidemasa. 2011. ‘The Political Space of Meiji 22 (1889): The Promulgation of the Constitution and the Birth of the Nation.’ Japan Review, 23, 119-41.  Lloyd, Arthur. 1905. Admiral Togo. Tokyo: Kinkodo. McArthur, Ian. 2013. Henry Black. On Stage in Meiji Japan. Victoria: Monash University. Mihalopoulos, Bill. 2011. Sx in Japan’s Globalization, 1870-1930. London and New York: Routledge. Nakae, Chomin, and Tsuki, Nobuko (tr.) 1999. A Discourse by Three Drunkards on Government. New York and Tokyo: Weatherhill. Nimura, Janice. 2015. Daughters of the Samurai. A Journey from East to West and Back. New York and London: W. W. Norton and Company.                   Swale, Alistair. 2000. The Political Thought of Mori Arinori. A Study in Meiji Conservatism.    Richmond: Japan Library. Wilson, George. 1992. Patriots and Redeemers in Japan. Motives in the Meiji Restoration. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. Image credits: Treaty of Portsmouth By World Imaging - Own work, photographed at Japan Foreign Ministry archives, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12769311 Allegory of inflation PHGCOM, pre-1868 anonymous Japanese arti Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Roman Laments About Bizarre New "Christians" and "Jesus" Son of Panthera (177 AD) True Word, Celsus

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Plato Describes Atlantis // First Mention of the Island // 360 BC 'Critias'

Created by Plato as a antagonistic rival to his idealistic interpretation of "Ancient Athens", his portrait of Atlantis is nevertheless incredibly detailed - describing the history of the island, its geography, and finally the people who counted the doomed paradise their home before they met their end beneath the waves. 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 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: Emanuele riela By Rolfmueller at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2198768 Bild von Ingrid und Stefan Melichar, Pixabay Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Kaiser Wilhelm II Lays the Blame for WW1 // From His Memoirs (1922) // Primary Source

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