Episode 172 | The Louis Vuitton of Survival

Unhinged History strives to bring you the stories you’ve never heard of in your history class, and this week is no exception.

Angie kicks off this week by exploring the Silk Road and the heist that liberated silkworms and opened the door for countries other than China to produce this incredibly luxurious textile.

Theresa veers off in a wildly different direction as she shares the story of Nakahama Manjiro, also known as John Mung. Manjiro starts off as a stranded Japanese 14-year-old fisherman, gets rescued by an American whaling ship, becomes the first Japanese man in the United States, and returns home just in time to be an interpreter for Commodore Matthew Perry coming to Japan to sell weapons.

This episode pairs well with:
Battle of Hastings and Bayeux Tapestry
The Fall of the Shogun and the Women's Army

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