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Did The Polynesians Discover America?
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November 24, 2018
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History With Hilbert
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Captain Cook, sailing around the Pacific in the 17th century, found every island inhabited. The people there shared languages, cultures, and a love of navigation. Spread thousands of miles across the open ocean the Polynesians are history's greatest navigators. But could they have discovered the Americas before Columbus? And how is the second most beautiful thing on Earth, the potato, a key to this story? Let's find out.
In this video, we'll look at Polynesian history, Polynesian Navigation, Polynesian boat building, and all things Polynesian. The history of Polynesia is fascinating and interest in it has spiked over the last few decades due to voyages upon the Hokule‘a
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On the Road of the Winds, Patrick Vinton Kirch
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Words for sweet potato in the Pacific
Article about Rapa Nui genetics
Current Biology )30321X
Article about Thor
This website is fun to find out more about Polynesia, the link below is for a history channel documentary hosted on that site
More info on the star compass
Virtual Reality wayfinding
Article about chicken bones found in Peru and recent evidence surrounding them
More info on Polynesian navigation
The Discovery and Settlement of Polynesia article
Article about frickin Sweet Potatoes
Amazing study on sweet potatoes that I was not smart enough to completely understand
In Search of the Ancient Polynesian Voyaging Canoe -
360 Tour of the Hokulea
SOME SFX TAKEN FROM AGE OF EMPIRES II
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