5 Strangest Accounts of First Contact in History

Jan 27, 2023
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Edited and Researched by Manuel Rubio
Narrated by David Kelly
Thumbnail Art by Ettore Mazza: https://www.instagram.com/ettore.mazz...
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/mi...

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.p...

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

Stock footage from Storyblocks or Artlist, music from Epidemic Sound and Artlist.

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)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAtnWu7xhzA