Most people in history probably lived and died within a 10 kilometer

>>2279706
Johann Schiltberger, born 1380 near Munich, went on a crusade, fought at the battle of Nicopolis, became a slave of the Turks, later fought as a Turkish soldier at the battle of Ankara, was taken prisoner by Timur, rode with Timur into Persia and India as a soldier, was made a gift to a Khan from the Golden Horde, traveled Siberia with the GH and then miraculously made it back home to Bavaria after 30 years of slavery.
He wrote a book about his experiences, and the countries he traveled. Pretty fucking awesome.

Aleksandar Lekso Saičić

The Samurai fear the Serbs

>>2279706
Yang Kyoungjong
He first had to fight for the Japanese, then got captured by the Russians and got put into the Red Army, then got captured by the Germans and got put into Wehrmacht, and then got captured by the Americans.

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>>2279706
The original siamese twins. Two conjoined twins bought from their mother in thailand by a ship captain and presented around europe and north america as a freakshow. Eventually they settled down in North Carolina, married locals, bought land and slaves, had a dozen children and sent their sons to fight for the Confederacy.

>>2279731
Awesome

>>2280644
I thought interracial marriage was illegal back then

>>2280920
Miscegenation laws varied, but most states only banned marriage between blacks and whites and native americans and whites

>>2280644

>had a dozen children and sent their sons to fight for the Confederacy

dude

>>2280920
Interracial in America means black/white, haven't you been on pornhub.

>>2280966
Natives and whites could always marry, it was extremely common. Most Cherokee leaders were half white.

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>>2280644
>deformed asian twins can get married to white women, have a dozen children, and be successful in a completely foreign land
>i can't even get a gf

>>2281067
Don't forget: Super Racist foreign land.

>>2281058
A;so, in the very early colonial history, white settler women frequently preferred the more egalitarian societies of East Coast native tribes

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>>2281018
>tfw you'll never collect white women, slaves, and property with your conjoined thai twin

>>2280644
Did one of them stare at the ceiling while the other had sex?

>>2281077
lol that sounds like a polite way of explaining away indians kidnapping colonist women, which was extremely common in indian society. Most marriages were economic though, at least in the southeast. Indian tribes were matrilineal while europeans were patrilineal, therefore high status indian leaders could marry their daughters to high status white settlers so that the sons would inherit titles from both worlds.

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>>2279706
Napoleon
Born in Corsica, lived all over Europe, died in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

>>2280920

Irish weren't considered white so they technically weren't breaking any laws.

>>2281533
>Irish weren't considered white
Not this meme again

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>>2279706
many people have heard of William Adams, the first white samurai, but there was also Yasuke, the first (and only) black samurai. He originally travelled to Japan as the servant to an Italian Jesuit missionary, but after a meeting Nobunaga Oda took such a liking to him he made Yasuke (original name unknown) into a retainer. He served until Nobunaga's death at Honnouji, known to have been spared by Akechi Mitsuhide but faded into history afterwards.

>>2280920

Only for whites and blacks/Native Americans.

Most states outside of the West never bothered drafting anti-misgenation laws for Asians (not enough of them around to justify it).

>>2281106

They actually had a rotating weeklong schedule on when they could have sex with their wives.

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>>2279706
Ambassador Zhang Qian of Han Dynasty China was the first Chinese to go through an extensive whirlwind trip outside of China. Initially he was sent to secure an alliance with the Yuezhi versus the Xiongnu steppe nomad confederation, but the Xiongnu captured his party. They managed to escape and became hopelessly lost, wandering around Iranic Central Asia and bits of Iran itself and afghanistan.

Zhang Qian was unfazed however and kept an open report of the kingdoms he visited. He chatted with high officials, hill kings, and city state leaders and learned of other states such as Syria, Parthian Persia, India, and so on. His country of origin was recognized when he reached the place where the Ferghana Greek colonists lived and they promptly escorted him back to China. Of the 100 strong embassy sent to the Yuezhi, only Zhang Qian and his steppe nomad guide named Ganfu survived the trip home.

His reports and the maps he drew up pretty much led to the intensification of trade westwards by the Han Dynasty. Hence he is often erroneously considered the jumpstarter of the Silk Route.

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>>2281734
This is a mural of Zhang Qian in some ministerial building of foreign affairs in China, I think.

>>2281599

Read a book nigger