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Season 2020

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  • TheTVDB.com Season ID 1958906
  • Created September 21, 2021
  • Modified June 3, 2024
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Name First Aired Runtime Image
S2020E01 Ancient Chinese Historian Describes Japan // First Full Description of Japan // "Wei-Zhi" (297 AD)
January 1, 2020
S2020E02 Ancient Chinese Historian Describes The Xiongnu // Before The Mongols // Book of Han (111 AD)
January 11, 2020
S2020E03 Caesar on the Gauls // Roman Primary Source (58 - 49 BC)
January 15, 2020
S2020E04 Rameses III Describes Invasion Of Sea Peoples // Mystery of Bronze Age Collapse // Primary Source
January 24, 2020
S2020E05 Roman Scholar Describes Ancient Africa // Pliny on Source of The Nile and Aethiopia - 1st century AD
January 31, 2020
S2020E06 Diary Of A Pyramid Labourer // Oldest Papyrus Discovered 2550 BC "Diary of Merer" // Primary Source
February 7, 2020
S2020E07 Japanese Historian Describes First Contact With Europeans // 16th cent. "Teppo-ki" // Primary Source
February 14, 2020
S2020E08 Earliest Foreign Account of China? // 9th cent. "Accounts of China and India" // Primary Source
February 21, 2020
S2020E09 Roman Trade Route to Ancient China // 1st cent. AD Periplus // Ancient Primary Source
February 29, 2020
S2020E10 First European Description of Life in Japan // 1585 'Striking Contrasts' Luis Frois - Primary Source
March 7, 2020
S2020E11 Three Historical Accounts of the Dog-Headed Men // Marco Polo, Ibn Battuta and Sir John Mandeville
March 13, 2020
S2020E12 Ancient Chinese Monk Describes Ancient India // 4th century Faxian // Primary Source
March 20, 2020
S2020E13 First European Description of Life in Korea // 1668 'Hamel's Journal' // Primary Source
March 27, 2020
S2020E14 Nostradamus' First 100 Predictions // 16th Century Primary Source
March 30, 2020
S2020E15 Aztec Perspective on First Contact with Europeans // 16th cent. Florentine Codex // Primary Source
April 9, 2020
S2020E16 Real Samurai Explains Rules for Peace and War // 17th cent. Scrolls of Natori-Ryu // Primary Source
April 14, 2020
S2020E17 First European Description of Philippines (1521) // Magellan's Last Days // Pigafetta Primary Source
April 24, 2020
S2020E18 Byzantine Historian Describes Ancient China // 7th cent. Theophylact S. // Primary Source
April 30, 2020
S2020E19 5 Historical Accounts of Werewolves // Herodotus, Beast of Gevaudan + more // Primary Sources
May 7, 2020
S2020E20 Aztec Perspective on the Conquest of Mexico // 16th cent. Florentine Codex // Primary Source
May 13, 2020
S2020E21 Letter from English Samurai Describing his Life in Japan // 1611 Primary Source
May 19, 2020
S2020E22 Earliest Western Account of India + Caste System // 300 BC Megasthenes // Ancient Primary Source
May 29, 2020
S2020E23 Three Terrifying First-Hand Accounts of Mongol Invasions // Genghis Khan, Khwarezmia, Baghdad
June 5, 2020
S2020E24 First Japanese Visitor to USA Describes American Life // 1860 Tokugawa Embassy // Primary Source
June 13, 2020
S2020E25 First Japanese Visitor After Sakoku Describes European Life // 1862 Tokugawa Embassy Primary Source
June 20, 2020
S2020E26 First Japanese Visitor to US + Europe Describes Birth of Modern Japan (British Attack + 2nd US Trip)
June 27, 2020
S2020E27 British Reaction from 1776 to Declaration of Independence // "The Scots Magazine" // Primary Source
July 3, 2020
S2020E28 American Perspective on 'First Contact' With Japan (1853) // Perry's Expedition // Primary Source
July 10, 2020
S2020E29 Aztec Historian Describes First Japanese in Mexico (1610) // Chimalpahin's Annals // Primary Source
July 18, 2020
S2020E30 Marco Polo Describes the Mongols // 13th cent. Primary Source
July 24, 2020
S2020E31 Earliest European Mention of Japan // Marco Polo Describes Mongol Invasion of 'Chipangu' (1281)
July 26, 2020
S2020E32 First Chinese Visitor Describes Medieval Europe // The Incredible Journey of Rabban Sawma (1287)
August 7, 2020
S2020E33 The Art of War by Sun Tzu // Ancient Chinese Primary Source
August 12, 2020
S2020E34 Futurist from 1901 Describes The World of 2001 // 'Ladies Home Journal' (1901) // Primary Source
August 21, 2020
S2020E35 Japanese and European Accounts of Yasuke: African Samurai (弥助) // 16th cent. Primary Sources
August 28, 2020
S2020E36 Kaiser Wilhelm II Lays the Blame for WW1 // From His Memoirs (1922) // Primary Source
August 29, 2020
S2020E37 Thomas Edison Predicts the 20th Century // Kindles and Bumblebee Helicopters // Cosmopolitan (1911)
September 11, 2020
S2020E38 Japanese Historian from 1845 Describes Life of George Washington + Foundation of USA
September 18, 2020
S2020E39 Japanese Traveler Describes Journey Across Iran and Ancient Persian Sites // (1899) Yenaga Toyokichi
September 26, 2020
S2020E40 First Indian Visitor Describes England and European Life // 1785 'Wonders of Vilayet' Primary Source
October 2, 2020
S2020E41 Five Brutal First-Hand Accounts of Roman Conquest // Carthage, Zela, Masada, Samarra, Fall of Rome
October 10, 2020
 20
S2020E42 Native American Perspective on First Contact with Europeans // As related to Jon Heckewelder (1770s)
October 17, 2020
 11
S2020E43 Soviet Tourist Describes 1930s American Life // Ilf and Petrov's US Road Trip (Primary Source)
October 24, 2020
 20
S2020E44 Horrified Soviet Tourist Describes California and Hollywood (1936) // Ilf and Petrov's US Road Trip
November 1, 2020
 20
S2020E45 Soviet Tourist Describes US Deep South and Visits President Roosevelt (1936) // Ilf and Petrov
November 7, 2020
 19
S2020E46 Fascinated British Visitor Describes Life in American Civil War (1863) // Diary of Henry Y. Thompson
November 21, 2020
 16
S2020E47 Japan and the West: The First 500 Years // Japanese History Documentary (1298 - 1854)
November 29, 2020
 65
S2020E48 American Socialist Discovers Harsh Reality of Life in Soviet Union (1933-37) // "Behind the Urals"
December 5, 2020
 19
S2020E49 The 4 Most Savage Real Accounts of Viking Attacks (Lindisfarne, Muslim Spain, Constantinople, Paris)
December 19, 2020
 12
S2020E50 Japanese Castaway Gives First Description of USA (1852) // Incredible Story of John Manjiro
season finale
December 26, 2020
 22

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