This video is part of the #OperationOdysseus collaboration. You can see all 17 contributor videos here -kzread.info/head/PLDb22nlVXGgd2rdNu1C44t-hoYXA9bL2M And you can see the rest of the video focussing on the Early Modern Period here - History With Hilbert - Brandon F - Mr Beat - kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y5N5zsqYmtLFlMY.html

@bkjeong4302

5 жыл бұрын

- Cogito - Is anyone going to be covering Admiral Yi’s naval campaigns?

@moviejose3249

5 жыл бұрын

Given the large number of Samoans in California I am not surprised the Polynesians discovered the Americas ;) But on a serious note yeah its kind of obvious they would have, they were superb sailors.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Not this around. But I will definitely in the future

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Yeap, I just say potato because it's easier. I state sweet potato a few times.

@marcusvachon845

5 жыл бұрын

There is also evidence that some Polynesians landed and settled southern California. Linguists have found similarities between one Native American tribe and Polynesian tribes. This single tribe also built their canoes in the same manner as the people of Polynesia.

I love how in a generation we have gone from "Columbus discovered America" to "Everyone knew America existed but nobody bothered telling the Europeans about it".

@TheTheotherfoot

5 жыл бұрын

It was the old saying, let them in and there goes the neighbourhood.

@josuelitos

4 жыл бұрын

Europeans knew. there were native Americans that spoke Basque language. Basque people and also Irish people landed in America but didn't settle it. way before Columbus. And of course, Vikings new about it too.

@Euskalbikoizketak

4 жыл бұрын

@@josuelitos Basque used to make trades with the Mic Macs, a tribe that lived were now is known as Newfoundland.

@OOTurok

4 жыл бұрын

Columbus did discover America. No one ever said he was the 1st to discover it.

@essexclass8168

4 жыл бұрын

@@OOTurok I call BS, having experienced being both the giving and receiving end of that statement that and discovery originally meant revealing what previously unknown not simply finding, and at the very least the Norse, Basques and Irish already knew (in Europe)

Columbus- I discovered America Polynesia- I did it first Vikings- What about me? Native Americans- BOI

@essexclass8168

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah but the Natives cheated

@goodluckgorsky3413

5 жыл бұрын

Essex Class Yeah they came by land

@DawnOfTheDead991

5 жыл бұрын

LOL, Columbus justly gets credit because the whole world knew after he got there and back

@essexclass8168

5 жыл бұрын

@@DawnOfTheDead991 This is like saying the Spanish discovered the Philippines after the Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, all of the Indians, the Arabs and East Africa were already trading with it. America was already known to a lot of the world before Columbus set in, they just never bothered to go there cause everyone else had easier access to spice in (the real) Indies.

@elguerotapatio9258

5 жыл бұрын

@@essexclass8168 they had land bridges

Thank you man. I'm a Tongan and to watch this makes me see the origin of Polynesia and as a Polynesian I'm proud of our ancestors

@boshvasara1868

5 жыл бұрын

Malo apito. Its important to have pride in ones self.

@marsdenmurray4413

4 жыл бұрын

Same here toko

@Shadow7700

4 жыл бұрын

Oceania is the most exotic and coolness continent in history ever man ! Beautiful men and women, very open and nice culture, Cool stuff spirituality.... Man, I'm almost jealous of what you are !! No racism practiced in their history, no problem of religions, tropical islands... Well Paul Gauguin was also right the Polynesians women.

@patsysadowski1546

4 жыл бұрын

Herbal Shaman did you not read her comment? She said from Central Asia, not Asians meaning early migration from that area. The DNA does show this and that some migrated back too before the ice bridge melted and isolated them for thousands of years. The Native Americans today are most closely related to the people of Siberia who share similarities to this day. The availability of that route provides a clear date and is supported by DNA and language studies. How did you misunderstand both points and fail to acknowledge you were wrong still? Mansplain that one?

@bloodlinesuhwoop9979

4 жыл бұрын

I’m Samoan Tokouso

I love Polynesian history! It's criminally underrated and I hope it becomes more popular in the next few years

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah it's fascinating. It's one of the up and coming areas of study though and I guarantee in the next few decades we're going to discover a lot more interesting things about them.

@LuisAldamiz

5 жыл бұрын

The problem with these things is that it's rather pre-history than history (maybe there was oral history but it was all but eradicated by arrogant Western missionaries) and that gets tricky. When dealing with Prehistory, most people just takes the spectacular bits, be them pyramids, neanderthals or dinosaurs, all the rest is blurry and relatively meaningless for them.

@madisonbrooks5793

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz Thankfully they may have discovered a writing system on Easter Island e

@nicolasgodines1129

4 жыл бұрын

@@LuisAldamiz Uhhh, not really. A lot of Hawaiian legends were translated and written down by literate Hawaiians, and many of them are still around BECAUSE of the missionaries. In fact, if Hawai'i was taken over without the missionaries translating their language and Latinizing our alphabet I have no doubt that our culture would have been a lot worse off when the Americans illegally occupied us, stopped us from speaking our language for decades, and essentially tried to Anglicize our people, committing ethnocide. Granted, they did ban hula and lua, which contributed to the loss of our culture, but in the long run it was the Americans who did and continue to do worse than what the missionaries ever did.

@LuisAldamiz

4 жыл бұрын

@@nicolasgodines1129 - I was talking in general terms re. Oceania: missionaries and colonial authorities considered Austronesian navigation feats to be undeserving of preservation as any other native traditions, considered heathen and barbaric. No saying there were no exceptions but that was certainly the general rule. That's why the Polynesian navigation and exploration feats fell into obvlivion for a century or so, until only recently they have been rescued and given their due merit, largely because of Polynesian own re-learning of their own traditions.

Way to go with picking a topic outside of Europe, really makes the collaboration diverse and unique! Great job.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot :D Your video was incredibly well made.

@moviejose3249

5 жыл бұрын

You guys should just rent a large house and live together with the other history channels, imagine the content collaboration while you brainstorm non stop

@wheaties2912

5 жыл бұрын

Don't use the D word, it's nasty.

@resmur8095

4 жыл бұрын

@@wheaties2912 why?

@rustee00

3 жыл бұрын

What’s the D word. Ditch? I don’t know

On my island we still travel by the stars without no use of the compass. I am frm Micronesia & i am so proud of my culture & happy to say my people brought it back for the other Pacific islanders! On my island we call the sweet potato “kaamu” while others called it “kuumara” Mau pialug is frm my clan✊🏽✊🏽

@bacon8353

4 жыл бұрын

Faanēngaaw Narruhn Nika that’s cool as shir you have a clan

@rogerwilco2

4 жыл бұрын

That's really cool. I got really interested in his story and that of Hokule'a after visiting Hawai'i. I have also visited Aotearoa and Rapa Nui, both have really interesting histories. Be proud of your history, and keep it alive.

@faanengaaw7357

4 жыл бұрын

LukstrGamr clans are common on most pacific islands. Clans are believed to be descendants of a single person or being. I am from the sorcerers clan on my dads side & frm my moms side i am frm the the deep channel clan.

@faanengaaw7357

4 жыл бұрын

Demz Soutz not distant but close ! 👌🏽👌🏽

@kentneumann5209

4 жыл бұрын

Faanēngaaw Narruhn Nika - Keep it alive, spread that hands on navigational knowledge to as many others as you can and stay on course man. I have a feeling things are gonna get knocked back to reset point for the tech end of the world. The solar system moves through space and time like a cosmic clock ticking away. The solar system is currently in the same place in the galaxy as it was 65 million years ago at the extinction event of the dinosaurs. Tic tock. Solar cycles will bring a solar wind at some point that will create a world wide atmospheric electromagnetic pulse that will knock out the satellites and put an instant end to GPS navigation, and wireless global communications. Tic. Tock. The melting of the glaciers has been going on long before modern man had any influence on climate. And it (climate) will continue its course regardless of mans carbon footprint. As I understand it, (which means exactly that, limited to my grasp of the information I've read, and its accuracy in and of itself) the more the ice melts the faster it melts the more it melts the faster... It exponentiates as it goes and will increase its rate accordingly. It changes the ocean currents and temperature which changes the jetstream which alters the trade winds which changes the temperate zones which affects rainfall and snowfall and where it falls and if it's cold enough to remain frozen and create the vast ice packs of the poles. Magnetic North is currently drifting and has moved about 20 to 30° from where it used to be. Antarctica was a tropical rainforest 90 million years ago. Tic. Tock. Everything is cyclic. What happened before will happen again. There's gonna be some beach front properties moving inland. Some islands are already inundated over the last generation. As I'm sure you are already aware of. Be it in your lifetime or your great great grandchildren, i feel the navigational knowledge of your clans will be necessary for survival of the human species. Definitely a history to be proud of, a "current" knowledge and skill that deserves full on big balls bragging rights, and an almost mystical heritage to pass on to the next generations of people who navigate that vast spread of the earth. While its definitely awesome to know where one comes from, its just as important to know where one is going, and even more so than that, *how* to get there. The human species needs your clans skills to live on. Tic...

I agree that the potato is the most sacred thing on earth. LONG LIVE POTATO.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Praise be, oh mighty spud!

@suciretnowati8219

5 жыл бұрын

List of who discover america before columbus : 1. Native american 2. Polynesian 3. Vikings 4. Irish 5. Ming chinese

@Packless1

5 жыл бұрын

​@@suciretnowati8219 ...indeed...! Some even claim the Phoenicians - Refugees from the punic wars (The story with Hannibal, his elephant and the alps) made it ~1600years before Columbus and Solutrian (ice-age-people), sailing along the ice-shelf of the frozen north-atlantic...! b.t.w. Columbus didn't 'discover' America... ...he got lost and didn't realize it (he wasn't very good at math...! ;-) The Native americans were ~12000years before him - and they didn't even need boats, they could then walk...! ;-)

@LuisAldamiz

5 жыл бұрын

It just wasn't the potato but another tuber you may not have even tasted: the batata, also known as sweet potato, also known as yam, also known as camote... and it seeems that also as kumar and variants through the saltier parts of the World.

@moviejose3249

5 жыл бұрын

@@suciretnowati8219 Yeah but Columbus was the dude whose investment paid off the most lol

And polynesians left chickens in Peru, DNA tests of old chicken bones in Peru prove.

@moi7107

4 жыл бұрын

that's why KFC is No 1

@AMM0beatz

4 жыл бұрын

Origin of poly chicken was traced back to philippine islands through dna testing

@DavidSaintloth

4 жыл бұрын

ha ha I just linked the paper in my comment above. ;) You are correct sir!

@santospaul8103

4 жыл бұрын

IslandMahn no they came from taiwan

@FranKoPepez

3 жыл бұрын

I don't know about those bones in Peru but I know about bones found in central Chile that were proved to be related to the Mapuche chicken and polynesian chicken, but this finding was later disproved, not without controversy.

Something about this story fills me with a weird sort of pride. I'm not Polynesian but the fact that humans were able to navigate the Pacific using such simple tech and orally-imparted knowledge makes me proud to be human. And the fact that the knowledge wasn't lost and there seems to be an ongoing renaissance, a growing global appreciation for the Polynesian people, fills me with the same sort of pride. Our species is awesome. We should do better to respect each other, learn from each other, teach each other.

@grappling.enthusiast

2 жыл бұрын

Fax bro, every race/ethnicity has contributed to the greatness of humans. Our species really is awesome.

@faithful2b1

Жыл бұрын

@@grappling.enthusiast and that my friends is a fact :)

@ikeropiha4841

Жыл бұрын

The Book of Mormon. Alma 63:5-7 And it came to pass that Hagoth he being an exceedingly curious man, therefore he went forth and built him an exceedingly large ship,on the borders of the land Bountiful by the land Desolation and launched it forth into the the west sea, by the narrow neck which led into the the land northward 6 And behold there were many of the nephites who did enter there in and sail forth with much provisions and also many women and children and they took their course northward and ended the thirty and seventh year 7 And in the thirty and eight year, this man built other ships. And the first ship did also return and many more did into it and they also took much provisions and set out again to the land northward

@sydneyloli5849

Жыл бұрын

As a Polynesian, I absolutely one hundred percent agree. It's all part of our Earth Human culture and one day our descendants in the near future can share our Human history with other species

@larrylopez9614

Жыл бұрын

I agree

Been watching Operation Odysseus for the past hour and while I've enjoyed them all, I think I liked this one the best! So well done. Also, happy to have found your channel.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

No way I was just watching a video of yours the was on my recommended earlier, great stuff. Thanks for watching and your comment means a lot considering the quality of videos in this collab :D

@maryocecilyo3372

3 жыл бұрын

Btw I subscribed you two!

More Polynesian history please. The Tūhoe from New Zealand have a super interesting oral history.

@steveboy7302

5 жыл бұрын

children of the mist thats my tribe

@joshmann1990

4 жыл бұрын

No one cares

@taylorroos4414

4 жыл бұрын

@@joshmann1990 apparently at least 43 people care.

@mrmister1657

4 жыл бұрын

Taylor Roos and now 47

@chairmybowl835

4 жыл бұрын

Ruakenana Tuhoe profit from the uruwera.!( I'm Ngati whatua btw.)

That's crazy aligning your boat with the motion of the ocean. Great video!

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah its crazy. Apparently, Mau one time fell asleep on a ship and let a younger trainee steer, when he woke up he told the guy that they were off course, he felt it while falling asleep :D

@blueadept4689

4 жыл бұрын

Mau from Satawal, Micronesia, held on to the old ways, a true navigator when other cultures had lost theirs. I'm glad he shared his knowledge, to be sure, it would have been lost as well given more time.

Aloha from Hawai‘i! Mahalo piha for covering this topic and broadening its exposure. Having read a lot on this topic myself, I congratulate you on your thorough research. The Austronesian peoples and especially the Polynesians deserve credit for what is still one of the most impressive human achievements of all time-navigating to and colonizing tiny islands in a swath of open ocean that is 1/4 of the face of the planet... as you say, at a time when other sailing cultures were hugging coastlines! Austronesian non-instrument wayfinding is a skill and a technology that blows my mind the more I learn about it. Mahalo as well for highlighting the achievements of the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Hōkūle‘a, and the great Papa Mau.

@3otterlover

2 жыл бұрын

can you reccomnd books on the topic?

@amberrenee3718

10 ай бұрын

Kia ora te Nui Hawaiaki yes but we didn’t colonise each other my family we felt each others mama and maui spoke to create the lands, Dreamtime tells us about before the lands!

Polynesian history is so cool to learn about. The saw the whole ocean as a highway system of winds and currents.

As a Peruvian with a Samoan Girlfriend I believe we have very long and strong connections with polynesians. I can’t say y’all come from us or Asians but I know there’s an obvious connection and we’ve met and got along in ancient times

@emiliocarver2061

3 жыл бұрын

Tobi Dean pls stop, lost tribes of Israel stuff is bs and hateful

@BarHawa

3 жыл бұрын

@@emiliocarver2061 fr 😂

@avilik13

3 жыл бұрын

I'm Samoan and people always think me and one of my Peruvian friends are sisters lol but whether we came from Asia or the Americas there's a lot of evidence that the Polynesians at the very least arrived in the Americas and traded with the people hence the chicken and sweet potato. Also a Californian tribe have boats that are similar to Polynesians' with similar names for parts and the bones of an extinct Brazilian tribe were found to be related to Polynesians.

@hellypalli

3 жыл бұрын

Dude shes your cousin

@uts4448

3 жыл бұрын

@Pandroo Yeah the Polynesians originated from the Asians side lol

The fact that a dude went onto a raft to sail into something that he didn't know was true or not, basically risking his and his crew's life, is actually very awesome. Let's have a moment of silence for him and just admire his dedication to find out his theory.

@amberrenee3718

10 ай бұрын

And for the people his team killed, reclassified and displaced.

@nmarbletoe8210

8 ай бұрын

@@amberrenee3718 Thor killed nobody

Fantastic video! makes so much sense that they reached the Americas-I think biggest question now is how often? Love your animations and drawings

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. I don't think it was a regular thing as the journey is still incredibly long and difficult even with Polynesian tech and favourable return winds. But it appears to have happened at least once and probably a few more times.

@LuisAldamiz

5 жыл бұрын

We can't know how often but often enough not just for the two pieces of evidence Cogito mentioned (the batata and the Amerind DNA in Rapa Nui) but also for other two bits not mentioned: SE Asian chicken DNA in South America (so they brought chickens there before Columbus most likely) and one archaeogenetic instance of Polynesian human DNA in Brazil, not far from Río. The question is: did they sailed all the way to Patagonia centuries before Magalhaes or did they cross by land?

@moviejose3249

5 жыл бұрын

@@CogitoEdu Also important to note that all the islands they settled were not settled previously so there was no competition. The Americas had large tribes and empires that would of challenged any attempts to settle other than trading. If any did settle they were very tiny numbers compared to the locals and would of been easily assimilated and absorbed into the gene pool.

@midshipman8654

5 жыл бұрын

- Cogito - so kind of like the Viking expeditions to America? They did it, but it didn’t really spark widespread colonization and trade efforts?

@maxvillyonecent7530

4 жыл бұрын

Very often you can find them in America 🇺🇸 😂 😂 😂 😂

I guess the Polynesians did land in South America, made contacts with the Andeans, got their sweet potato and spread it to the Polynesian world since Quechua and the Polynesians have the same word for sweet potato.

@helamanmaskaleh4144

5 жыл бұрын

We lover our sweet sweet potatoes

@steveboy7302

5 жыл бұрын

@John Doe no vikings in the south america

@steveboy7302

5 жыл бұрын

@John Doe obviously the Polynesian no contest

@steveboy7302

5 жыл бұрын

@John Doe nice👍good boy

@moi7107

4 жыл бұрын

we love our kumara

The Polynesians didn't go with the waves to new islands like most civilisations would. They followed the stars. Often going against the waves, so if anything bad happened, they could go straight back home.

@forsaaken420

4 жыл бұрын

SHBoi kinda what’s already stated in the video.

@reueluletaiolonasau5447

4 жыл бұрын

No!, they did go with the waves... Sailing against the waves is difficult, especially in the vast ocean. Sometimes navigators would wait till a certain season of the year, so the winds direction can change then they will start their voyage... When the wind comes from the North, when its rainy season, they sail South and etc... Peace from Tokelau Polys

@Jamac007

4 жыл бұрын

Polynesian boats had the ability to go any direction, yes alot of the times they sailed with the wind and waves to favour for straight directional speed but the double hulled sail canoes were capable of sailing upwind and wayfinders had the knowledge and skill to angle their sails to navigate their boats on a curvature path . Pacific winds change all the time and are not always straight forward like people say, winds and waves can change on an instant, if they waited to move everytime for favoured wind change they wouldn't of got anywhere so at times they had to sail upwind at somepoint if not alot of the times. Peace Uce

@reueluletaiolonasau5447

4 жыл бұрын

@@Jamac007 Uce, prfessional navigators know seasonal winds will go one direction in a certain time... Even the Romans and Vikings knew this knowlege, you stating that wind is unpredictable is BS... My Polynesian culture has made notes on Wind directions, Lunar months (12), Seasons, star readings, etc.. You obviously have never been on a boat!

@Jamac007

4 жыл бұрын

@@reueluletaiolonasau5447 Wind is predictable up to a certain point and the seasonal wind is only a guideline not a permanent rule as for the vikings and the Romans their boats didnt sail head wind unassisted, Vikings were better than the romans imo, you could throw the Chinese in that mix too. Polynesian boats are the first to travel upwind, you being poly and into wayfinding must know that these boats travel up swell or up wind if they needed to, (you obviously didn't know this) I have built canoes and outriggers so I know a little more than you think.

On my trip to Ecuador, I visited a tribe called Manteña/Huncavilca. They gave us a tour of their culture and history. One thing that stood out to us was that they were also Voyagers, and showed us the boats they used hundreds of years ago (which looks exactly like the boats in this video), and all the sea creatures they retrieved from really far off the coast, so I asked if their ancestors had contact with the Polynesian people, and the tour guide said that indeed they did, and specially for trading purposes. The tribe guide also said their ancestors mixed with Polynesians, as well as with the Aztecs. This explains why the Natives from the coast of Ecuador do not look like the Natives from Andean regions.

@rodrigoe.gordillo2617

3 жыл бұрын

Where are u from? I would not say they are mixed with aztecs but i would agree that they had contact with ancient México, in my mesoamerica class we learned that people from michoacan and guerrero states (southern México) had trade with people from coastal Ecuador and Colombia

@user-eb6ll6wd2r

11 ай бұрын

bump

I just started tearing up at 7:55, the knowledge that the Polynesians had 😫😫💪🏽💪🏽🤎🤎

I think Thor Heyerdahl was onto something, but maybe not the way he thought. He took the Easter Island myth of people coming from the East seriously. And the only thing East of Easter Island, was South America, and not Polynesia. We now know that there was people, coming from the East. But perhaps not with Balsa wood floats, as Heyerdahl thought. Analysis showed that _"although the European lineage could be explained by contact with white Europeans after the island was 'discovered' in 1722 by Dutch sailors, the South American component was much older, dating to between about 1280 and 1495, soon after the island was first colonised by Polynesians in around 1200."_ - The Independent. 2014-10-23. It seems to me more likely, that Polynesians went to South America, traded and mixed with the locals, and then went back and conquered Easter Island. This shows that taking people's native tales and myths seriously, might sometimes be a good clue as to understand their origin. This respect that Thor had for the native story is the legacy he left, showing that even though he had interpreted it wrong in some respect, there is still room to argue the native myth is true; people coming from the East came to, and perhaps even conquered, the Easter Islands. This is evident by the genetic evidence they left behind, somewhere in the 14th or 15th century, over 300 years before the Dutch discovered the island.

@motti6569

4 жыл бұрын

In Quechua oral history its been noted that the Quechua were supposed to have kept up trading relationships between themselves and the islands. The Spaniards even recorded Quechua oral tradition that one of the Incan Emperors supposedly voyaged out towards the islands during his reign.

@latrodectusmactans7592

4 жыл бұрын

One of the things many historians are finding out is that oral history is a lot more accurate than we originally assumed. So I wouldn’t be surprised.

@ANTSEMUT1

3 жыл бұрын

@@motti6569 does it turn up in the Oral history's of other South American tribes living on or near the Pacific coast. One source doesn't make it that convincing.

@htoodoh5770

3 жыл бұрын

So basically polynesian went to south america and took local women back with them.

@oeyameperosa7861

3 жыл бұрын

@@htoodoh5770 basically yes, that’s the theory most experts in this field are siding with or so I’ve read

European: our ancestors discovered the world 🛳 Polynesian/Pacific islanders: hold my coconut 🥥

@Luminsoldier

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-lh4um6cj6r there's a difference between colonizing and discovering

@uts4448

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-lh4um6cj6r you mean put on THEIR map? The places that they put on their map already had people there. They really didn’t discover anything.

@mssamoanmami3345

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao

@imadeyoureadthis1500

3 жыл бұрын

Hold my taro

@AngryKittens

2 жыл бұрын

*Austronesians. Remember that Polynesians are just one branch of the great Austronesian maritime migration. On the other side of the world. Austronesians (from somewhere between Borneo, Sulawesi, and Mindanao) were also busy crossing the _Indian_ ocean to trade with East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia and colonize Madagascar. VIkings crossed the relatively short distances of the northern Atlantic. Phoenicians sailed around the coastlines of their little swimming pool called the Mediterranean and sometimes sailed out to the edges of eastern Africa. Austronesians meanwhile, crossed and colonized two OCEANS, and invented the first boats ever that could sail oceanic waters. But no one talks about them.

The malagasy people's of Madagascar travelled from Southern Borneo some 2000 years so it's in Austronesian blood to go exploring on the high seas.

@taramauroa

4 жыл бұрын

that connection is very interesting

@MrNaysh

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah in fact they originated from South Borneo at the mouth of the Barito river, the Maa'nyan or Dayan tribe. Its a 7300km voyage which would make it even longer sea navigation than the Polys. No one ever brings that up though they even had a Queen Ranavalona who was overthrown around the same time as Queen Lilikualani. Look it up the parallels are astonishing.

@Benivakauta

4 жыл бұрын

love to my austronesian brothers n sisters

@ANTSEMUT1

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrNaysh i quite astonished at how they managed to keep the rice grains viable to be then grown on the settled land.

@ANTSEMUT1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Benivakauta yeah you should come visit the various bit of Borneo. I bet you could have a bunch of things in common with our indigenous people. Not austronesian myself (not that i know of anyway) but i feel a similar connection to the land as they do.

We sailed away with sweet potatoes and left our Moa (chicken) in Peru.

@Pandroo018

3 жыл бұрын

I think Peruvians went and took your chicken and gave you guys yams instead lol wait her way we got a secret connect scientist can’t prove

@oeyameperosa7861

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pandroo018 no the Polynesians sailed to South America and took brides back home with them

Don't forget the Polynesian chicken bones they found in south America Carbon dated 1000 ad

melanesian, micronesian and polynesian titles, names, categories are eurocentric constructs to describe,us. why do you have to argue over not being represented by a name we didnt give ourselves. WE ARE ALL RELATED, WE ARE THE SAME

@cotelargo238

4 жыл бұрын

Well said

@RILO69

4 жыл бұрын

Sad but true!! We are Pacifika Oceania people and these names were given to us to separate us and make our people fight amongst one another. "Divide and conquer" mindset which has separated many countries and their indigenous people.

@yoshilorak5897

4 жыл бұрын

Actually Micronesians and Polynesians are one people. Melanesians are a whole different race. I'm not trying to divide or instil racial tensions, I'm saying it as a factual statement.

@AE-ix2iz

4 жыл бұрын

yoshi lorak coastal Melanesians are genetically mixed with Austronesians. Also, ALL Polynesians have Melanesian mixed in with us.

@Benivakauta

4 жыл бұрын

yoshi lorak we are all Pacific Islanders and of the austronesian family. Melanesians have darker skin but are not any different from each other. all those fake white man borders is meant to divide us and oppress.

Yes the contact between Polynesians and Native American’s is very true. In New Zealand. Parihaka has a link, I went to a tangi when I was 11 and unfortunately it was around the same time as their anniversary of their colonisation. We were tending to the tangi, taking the tupapaku to his resting place, and an older Kuia following behind wailing while playing poi against a drum. I too thought that was interesting, as drums are not at all a common Maori instrument. My mum asked our relative and she told us that there is a Native American link, there was some kind of trade and we were given a drum which is still played to this day on very special occasions.

I’m Samoan and it’s cool to see my culture and the great things they did

@R19sianaa

2 жыл бұрын

yea uce this uso explained our ancestors

Thank you for dismissing Heyerdahl's nonsense. So many other documentaries treat Heyerdahl as if he actually had a point.

Love this - but there is more recent data about Polynesian contact with the Chumash of California - the boats, fish hooks, and several key technology words in Chumash are clearly Polynesian in origin. Check it out! there is evidence for at least 2 phases of contact, once around 800 AD (Marquesas) and once around 1300 (Hawaiians)

@shibolinemress8913

Жыл бұрын

😊👍

Awesome stuff man. Your visuals are amazing

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, this one was fun to animate especially :D

As a descendant of Vikings I offer my congratulations.

@jdouat7536

4 жыл бұрын

As a Descendant of the Polynesian Voyagers Thank you 😂

@revonz

4 жыл бұрын

Great Voyagers and Great Warriors, Vikings I see as our brothers and sisters.

@aussiecomrade8926

4 жыл бұрын

Stfu larper

@faanengaaw7357

4 жыл бұрын

As descendant of a master navigator of Micronesia we thank u...

@paixmk1980

4 жыл бұрын

卐 rqvxn 卐 dude r u Nazi

History as told by the Irish: "....and that is how the potato once again shaped global politics"

@anne-droid7739

4 жыл бұрын

The potato and the sweet potato are not related.

@erikm8372

4 жыл бұрын

...I could've sworn SWEET potatoes were African/Asian/Pacific in origin, and (nightshade) potatoes were from South America. Maybe I'm wrong. Sweet potato are in the family of ipomoiea, AKA morning glories. Their vines have very similar-looking flowers. There is a variety of morning glory called Hawaiian Baby Woodrose, after all. Potatoes are nightshades, with tomato, eggplant and peppers. Also goji berries, tomatillos and Solarium fruit - deadly nightshade. Plus Many more (toxic) things that are inedible when raw. On another note, don't many Polynesian and Pacific peoples cultivate cassava? Sago pearls? Tapioca?

@src175

2 жыл бұрын

@@erikm8372 Nah, sweet potatoes are American.

@user-eb6ll6wd2r

11 ай бұрын

@@anne-droid7739 that could make a difference. eating root vegetable such as yam is a common thing wherever it has grown. these are not all the same. hmm.

My class really enjoyed this video and I want to thank you for including such a great list of resources. We've assessed your clip for credibility, utility and perspective and you've come out with a gleaming recommendation. Well done from 8B!

What a beautiful video! I believe, if I were a Polynesian, I'd be thrilled and proud by watching it. Also, the "jean flow" joke really caught me off guard, amazing. Another great video, Cogito. I'm a huge fan, thanks for it.

What about the Polynesian hooks they've found in America? Or the native American, Polynesian style canoes?

@st4r444

2 жыл бұрын

We wuz kangz n shiet

Thank you for picking such an amazing topic! I hope more indigenous peoples will be able to recover their oral traditions and remove the barriers that keep pushing them away

Thank so much of bring up about papa mau without him our hawaiian culture would be dead. You earn a sub.

@Checkmate2500

4 жыл бұрын

@Herbal Shaman facts

@heihei3161

4 жыл бұрын

Herbal Shaman dark skinned Afro? You sound like those pro black folk.. not all Polynesians were that dark skinned, darker than whites for sure but more like brown, and not all polys had afros our hair is a mixture mostly wavy

@yoshilorak5897

4 жыл бұрын

@Herbal Shaman That's a whole different race bro. Those are the Australoids, they are dark skinned curly haired people with sometimes blonde hair and blue eyes. The Polynesians and the Micronesians are part of the much larger Austronesian group which encompasses the Malagasi of Madagascar, the Indonesians, the Malays, scattered remnants in Burma and India's coast, the Filipinos, and the Taiwanese.

Wow somebody did one on polynesians.

What an incredible story!! My darest dream of how your explore new horizons and beyond comes true with this fabulous and amazing story of the Polynesian people. Without knowledge of writing, compas, and so on. Those marvels of engineering and navigation leaves me speechless and admiration. I really love your drawings Cogito

Fantastic video Cogito. These are always my favorite documentaries learning something new about different cultures.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. I love learning about all the different cultures in our world and I'm happy that others share that :D

I'm blown away by this video! The animation, narration, the research, the narration! Like I wrote somewhere else already: You have been improving with quantum leaps leaving the rest of us behind and your subscriber count reflects that!

Thank you for this. Glad that we get to hear more than just the basic history book topics!

Proud Polynesian descendant!!!!! This is some extraordinary stuff

A Part 2 video that'll be interesting to look into, is the migration from Southeast Asia to Madagascar. Polynesians and Southeast Asians both have commonality in Austronesian cultures and linguistics, it'd be interesting to see the other side of Austronesian expansion migration (Borneo to Madagascar).

Missed your videos! Greatly entertaining, as always.

Thank you, Cogito. I really enjoy learning from your videos, and the lego people are awesome. Way to keep it stimulating while teaching. Well done!

The term polynesia, micronesia and melanesia somehow provokes division. If you really think about it, the whole pacific are one.

@roycasey6899

4 жыл бұрын

Since European colonisation and intermarriage with Maori, the Maori skin colour has changed significantly, today many Maori are mistaken for Europeans. The dillemma today is how much maori blood does one need to be a Maori.

@AngryKittens

2 жыл бұрын

Indo-Pacific. The Austronesians sailed and colonized the islands of BOTH the Pacific and Indian oceans. It's a shame most Pacific Islanders today don't recognize their ties to Island Southeast Asia and Madagascar.

@R19sianaa

2 жыл бұрын

we like being called poly

@grappling.enthusiast

2 жыл бұрын

@@AngryKittens We Poly's have our austronesian brothers in Asia and Madagascar to thank. Without them, we would have never gained the knowledge to go on this great expeditions. Respect.

@horsekfobster7823

2 ай бұрын

@@grappling.enthusiastOh shut up you’re not even Poly

Amazing video! Super imteresting topic and your animations keep getting better!!! Please keep it going, you're my favourite channel 😀

europeans: we are the greatest sailors ever polynesians: thats adorable

@R19sianaa

2 жыл бұрын

Europeans just had galleons that were more durable and also they had more available land to them that let them prosper and develop more better boating technology. How did you think they got to Australia?

@makoent2231

Жыл бұрын

@@R19sianaa Dunno about more durable. Gallys were taller and deeper, but about the same length and thickness and Sea faring Waka, around 20 to 40 meters.

@user-eb6ll6wd2r

11 ай бұрын

@@R19sianaa actually australia got to europe first - before the first egyptian dynasty ohhh snap hold my gum bark canoe

I have been fascinated by the Polynesians ever since learning about Hokule'a and visiting Hawai'i, Rapa Nui and Aoteaora. This video represents what I have learned quite well. Well done!

Love how you've chosen a unique subject, also, new intro is smooth :)

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. I was nervous about the new intro so I'm happy to get good feedback.

Very interesting vid - thank you for the cooperation with the other channels!!!

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :)

Hey Cogito! Just dropping by to say I hope you had a great Christmas and I wish you a Happy New Year! I can't wait to see the videos you'll upload in 2019, whether through your channel or Kings & General. Take care man and as we say in France, Merde to you!

I've heard of a theory that the Polynesians also reached the coast of California and had contact with the Native American Chumash tribe. There seems to be some linguistic and cultural evidence supporting this (such as fish hooks and boat-building techniques). Given the research you present here, it wouldn't surprise me!

@ANTSEMUT1

3 жыл бұрын

The Chumash themselves seem to be divided on it though, as some object to having such a important tool to their people be from outsiders. Suggesting it's was rather independently developed by them and no one else.

@st4r444

2 жыл бұрын

We wuz kangz n shiet

@SportZFan4L1fe

2 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't doubt it. Samoans for example have a Chief system just like Native Americans. Also if you look at early Samoans and early Native Americans, they look similar.

@st4r444

2 жыл бұрын

@@SportZFan4L1fe all stone age humans have chief you p.o.s snd they don't look alike. Native Americans have long nose Bridge and high cheeks bones with sharp eyes. Samoans have bigger lips, snubbing nose and fuzzy hair. You just want to be native american to feel like you belong in america

@nmarbletoe8210

8 ай бұрын

@@ANTSEMUT1 on the other hand, the ability to share knowledge with other cultures is an important tool as well, and maybe more important than any one technology! the Steam Engine in Britain loses no luster because the science was partly French. In fact it praises Britain to say it was good at adopting knowledge from other places.

Amazing production value!

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot. Glad you liked it

This was fascinating! Great video

Linguistic and genetic evidence strongly point to Asia esp Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia. It was in the Philippines esp the islands of Luzon where Austronesians mastered seafaring using canoes. A study also revealed that Polynesian chickens descended from Philippine chickens. With linguistics, one can easily see the evolution of Polynesian languages from the proto-Austronesian. Languages in the Formosan (Amis etc) and Philippine language (Tagalog, Ilocano, Cebuano, Minahasan) branches retain the number of the complex Austronesian affixes which decreases as one moves to the Sunda-Sulawesi branch (Malay, etc) and east to Oceania where not only morphemes are reduced but also phonemes with Hawaiian having one of the world's smallest phonetic inventories. One can also notice this evolution in Romance languages that descended from Latin. Romance languages lost a lot of Latin cases. The grammar was simplified. The word "house" in Austronesian languages: Ph (Philippine language) Tao (Ph): vahay (spoken in Orchid Island, Taiwan) Ivatan (Ph): vahay Tagalog (Ph): bahay Ilocano, Cebuano, Southern Bicol, Waray, Hiligaynon (Ph): balay Aklanon (Ph): baeay Asi (Ph): bayay Tausug (Ph): bay Mongondow (Ph): baloi (spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia) Bikol Libon (Ph): baloy Bikol Rinconada (Ph): baləy Kapampangan (Ph): bale Gorontalo (Ph): bele (spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia) Maranaw (Ph): walay Minahasan (Ph): wale (spoken in North Sulawesi, Indonesia) Samoan: fale Tongan: fale Tahitian: fare Hawaiian: hale Maori: whare Marquesan: ha'e, fa'e Rarotongan: 'are Bikol Central (Ph): harong Malay (Malaysia, Indonesia): ruma Chamorro (Guam, Marianas): guma Tboli (Ph): gunu Tetum (East Timor): uma Kiribati: uma

@ProximaCentauri88

4 жыл бұрын

@Bersercoon Mabuhay kabayan.

@Farisss92

4 жыл бұрын

@yellow meloe it's because Polynesians have evolved to develop bigger bodies to withstand harsh climates of the Pacific and they still maintain strong protein-based diet while their Asian counterparts have evolved to mainly rely on agriculture and change their diet to rice-based.

@chinogabesv650

3 жыл бұрын

yellow meloe founder effect and adapting to the harsher pacific climates

@itsmevanny

3 жыл бұрын

yellow meloe there are still some filipinos who are as big as hawaiians my grandfather was very big and very dark

@AngryKittens

2 жыл бұрын

@yellow Arrow Polynesians are 70% Austronesian, 30% Papuan. Which is why you have curlier hair and bigger physiques than other Austronesians (including Islander Southeast Asians and Micronesians who do not have Papuan admixture).

It makes sense. Specially In Ecuadorian and Peruvian natives you can find alot of physical traits that have alot in common with Polynisians. Amazing video

Super interesting video! Would love to see you cover different peoples from Polynesia in your new People's of the World series!!! Please!

This is so cool, I really enjoyed it!

As a Filipino, I'm proud and thrilled to see videos on the culture being posted. As a fan of Ireland, it's even more exciting when done with an Irish accent.

@esemotusaga5566

5 ай бұрын

Filipinos are Polynesians ancient Ancestors, before Spanish colonisation the original indigenous name for what is present day Philippines was called Mai , Mai in most Polynesian languages means go forth , if it wasn’t for the Filipino Polynesians would not have discovered their island homes in the Pacific.

Cogito: Consider the coconut. Chunky guy with a fish hook: YOU'RE WELCOME!!!!

I am sure this has been mentioned as well, but in and around Andean sarcophagi there have been Pacific native plant resins found as well. Also Spaniards recorded that the Quechua claimed that Incan Emperor Yupanqui had himself engaged in voyages to the islands off the coast of Peru during his reign and that contact between the two had happened long before that. There is a lot of oral evidence pointing towards contact

The story of voyages is really inspiring for me those guys really had a heart of iron

I LOVE THESE VIDEOS PLEASE NEVER STOP

There were some things in here I learned through oral history from my Dad, who was taught by his parents, and so forth. He always mentions that based on the similiarities between Samoan Culture and Native American Culture: The chief systems, The headdresses, beheading of a chiefs head in war, the role of a chiefs daughter in both cultures just to name a few... could be because of interactions and influences between Polynesians and Native Americans.

Fantastic job and very interesting ;)

I love your animation and content ❤, such a skillful maker! 😊

Love this video!

Coming from Australia I have many Polynesian mates and to be honest to me they look like a mix between Asian and south American heritage similar to Phillipinos so maybe they sailed from both Asia and South America

@st4r444

2 жыл бұрын

No they don't. Americans have sharp eyes, long nose, high cheek. Polynesians have snubby nose, bigger lip, rounder eyes and more protrude brows. Skin color means nothing

@goldgen7352

2 жыл бұрын

Poly are mix of austronesian & melanesian peoples, melanesian tend to have bigger lips, curly hair and bigger bone than austronesian, but austronesian have some mongoloid features but different with north chinese U can see it by yourself when u come to south east asian countries especially in indonesia, malaysia and phillipines, those mix austro-melan have almost the same features like poly, the different is just poly has evolved become bigger body because of foods, nature, etc

You know.. A know a lot of Mexicans that look very suspiciously Asian. So along with the migration from the northeastern Asia, towards the Great Lakes, Eastern coast and the rest of the Americas The sea-faring Polynisians arrived on the Americas' southern coasts as well.. This is all very interesting stuff.

@crystalwolcott4744

3 жыл бұрын

All Native Americans migrated from Asia.

@st4r444

2 жыл бұрын

Native Americans look Asian because they came from siberia. Sharp eyes, long nose and high cheek like Mongols. Polynesians came from South China to Taiwan. Round snubby nose, bigger lips

@jade5202

11 ай бұрын

Its not necessarily from Polynesian expansion. Mexico and Philippines happen to be both colonized by Spain and it could be mixing from Galleon trading.

Fantastic video!

Great video thanks!

Great vid, man! I’d just like to make a note about potatoes and sweet potatoes. You seem to mix them as interchangeable terms, but they are two different crops.

@stiofanmacamhalghaidhau765

2 жыл бұрын

they are but he doesn't. sweet potatoes originate in tropical americas. on that topic, he has a cool video also on potatoes ('how potatoes saved the world' or similar) which walks through the origins, global spread, and impact of of both, plus maize and some other plants, well worth a goo if you get time.

11:47 "during a period when European and Asian sailors were hugging the coastlines." Southeast Asians: "Are we a joke to you?" In all seriousness, I would love to see a video about the Southeast Asian Austronesians. They sailed from the Far East to sub-Saharan Africa (Madagascar and surrounding regions) as far back as 500 BCE, while the Javanese made contact with Australia. Other than the Polynesians, Southeast Asians were probably the greatest seafarers in the world before the modern period.

@stevejohnson5887

2 жыл бұрын

We are just a branch family that left southeast asia and left with mixed people of both Melanesian and that taiwan blood cause yes and when I see most samoans is that the face is austronesian but have afro curly hair and brown, to me we do same things anyway except us polynesians never advanced in the wonder buildings like yous did AFTER we migrated away except the pyramid in savaii, samoa and rapa nui easter island. Common ancestor different family trees

@jcdenton1635

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevejohnson5887 Pacific Islanders and Southeast Asians are family. Of the two, I'd say Pacific Islanders were greater seafarers while Southeast Asians were greater engineers, but BOTH were excellent seafarers and engineers because they both accomplished incredible feats of human ingenuity in both of these fields. For example, although Pacific Islanders are better known for their seafaring prowess, they also built the monuments of Rapa Nui, one of the most iconic and impressive sites in the world, as well as the city of Nan Madol and the pyramid of Savaii. And while Southeast Asians are better known for their advanced cities and monuments, they also established the first large Maritime trade network in the Indian Ocean and even sailed as far as Africa, introducing their seafaring technologies to China, India, Arabia, Madagascar, and the Swahili Coast. Both peoples achieved extraordinary feats of seafaring and engineering.

@stevejohnson5887

2 жыл бұрын

@JC Denton our ancestors make us family but us now is totally mixed like south east Asia has been target from both India and China so they been long time mixing while we only mixed on our outer islands

@jcdenton1635

2 жыл бұрын

@@stevejohnson5887 Polynesians are actually closely related to East Asians, too. Check out the scientific paper "Toward a More Uniform Sampling of Human Genetic Diversity" and see Figure 3B. It shows that East Asians, Polynesians, and Southeast Asians, cluster very closely together, meaning they are strongly related (note that the study considers both East and Southeast Asians as East Asians).

@stevejohnson5887

2 жыл бұрын

@@jcdenton1635 I just have to look at myself and go why do I look more South American than East Asian lol I know what you mean but every time I look at myself the facts don’t add up. Because of the mix of both Māori and Samoan with no European blood in my family I could easily pass as a South American

This is great work man, kia ora from Aotearoa

this video.....was amazing! watching it was pure fun

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, that means a lot :D

Proud to be part Maori! Loved the video!

I am happy as Austronesian People

Wow! Didn't see that colab incoming. Great!

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Hope you enjoy the rest of the collab :D

This video is simply amazing!!!

I work with a cook islander man who always claimed that Polynesia found America, and would tell me the story about the “kumara” sweet potato, that we traded with Peru which is why we have the kumara here in the pacific. I would tell him that history says otherwise and he would then ask “who’s history? Theirs or ours? 🤔 I hope I live long enough to find out lol awesome video, I’m Tongan and wish to know more about my heritage 💯🇹🇴

The moral of the story everyone discovered american before Europeans, even other Europeans.

Absolutely fantastic!

I absolutely love this! Mahalo!

Half Maori half cookie (Cook Islands) 🇨🇰 🇳🇿, thank you for this brother! All my polys stand up! 🌴💯🙏🏿

@daniellemozafari1524

2 жыл бұрын

MAORI WHANAU IS WEAK MAORI ALONE IN NZ ❤️🤍🖤

@R19sianaa

2 жыл бұрын

Yea uso!

This is my opinion on the matter as a Polynesian... When we think of the Polynesian homeland as Asia, I believe the earliest Polynesians were living in on the “Asian mainland” BEFORE “Asians” migrated there. How do we figure this? because the Australian aboriginals and the Negritos or “ Black Asians” of South East Asia were the original settlers out of Africa into Asia before the modern day Asian migrated into Asia. I believe Polynesians were their own race of people, who were second into South East Asia AFTER the Australian Aboriginals and the Melanesian peoples. I believe they were an old race of people coming from the areas of the Middle East or Judea. Now their is a reason why Polynesians share basic vocabulary and linguistic similarities with South East Asians because originally it was a Polynesian homeland before we move on, probably being pushed out by conquering Hindu, Islamic, and Chinese kingdoms. The Polynesians who chose to stay behind in South East Asia intermixed with the conquering peoples, and created the current people of South East Asia, some looking Asian, some Middle Eastern, some Indian, and some who still resembles the previous Polynesian occupants. We know this why? because when South East Asian peoples like Malay, Filipinos, Indonesians ect. take DNA test, they show POLYNESIAN dna to some degree. But when Polynesians take DNA test, it whill show them as 100% Polynesian. Polynesians past through Melanesia without really mixing with the Melanesian tribes, as only seen in Fiji, where there is a mixture of Polynesian culture, of a Melanesian people. Beyond this point is the Polynesian peoples as far south as Aotearoa, as far east as Rapa Nui, and as far north as Hawai’i. The Polynesian languages like Hawaiian, Tahitian, Marquesan ect., are very simple languages, unlike the complex mixed languages like their South East Asian cousins. BUT that doesnt mean there a realitively new people into the pacific, because Australian Aboriginals are the OLDEST people out of Africa not living anywhere near the African continent, which means they are a very old people with a simple culture. Now the Rapa Nui I believe had contact with the Inca who share similarites in Megalithic construction and the introduction of Kumara into Polynesia via South America. Polynesians have legends of people ffeom foreign lands, we have our own legends and origin stories, just because these foreigners tell you something doesnt mean its the full truth. I live in Polynesia, and have never left, but have traveled and have seen enough to know, and what better a person to know than a Polynesian on the matter🤷🏽‍♂️ Aroha 🤙🏽

@ANTSEMUT1

3 жыл бұрын

Vanuatu are Melanesian too.

@AngryKittens

2 жыл бұрын

"Before Asians moved there" You think Asians are one race? Polynesians did NOT exist before 700 AD. The common ancestors of Polynesians, Micronesians, Island Melanesians, and Island Southeast Asians are known as the AUSTRONESIAN PEOPLE. You are basically describing the Austronesian migration. And yes. The earliest ancestors of Austronesians come from mainland China, but they are NOT Chinese. They were invaded and genocided by the Han Chinese in 200 BC. Which is why they are extinct in the mainland. Austronesians migrated to Taiwan (which in turn was ALSO invaded by the Han Chines in the 1600s). They invented boats that could cross the seas and migrated southwards to the Philippines. From there, they mixed with the Negritos then headed east to Guam, and further southwards to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Melanesia. In Melanesia, the Austronesians mixed with the Papuans, which is why Polynesians look very different from other Austronesians. Then they sailed on eastwards to Polynesia. Most Austronesians have Negrito/Papuan mixes. Filipinos for example have around 10% Negrito ancestry, 90% Austronesian ancestry. Same with Micronesians. Polynesians, on the other hand have 30% Papuan ancestry, and 70% Austronesian ancestry. The Austronesians who remained in Melanesia mixed further with Papuans in recent centuries. Which is why modern Melanesians (like Vanuatuans, Solomon Islanders, Fijians, etc.) are around 50% to 75% Papuan, with only 50% to 25% Austronesian ancestry remaining. Though interestingly enough, Melanesians retained their Austronesian culture fully. They are still an Austronesian people. Hindu and Muslim conversion only happened to Austronesians in western Southeast Asia (the Malays, Javanese, etc.). Due to contact with India and Sri Lanka. The Philippines and eastern Indonesia remained mostly animistic with native religions venerating ancestor spirits and nature spirits very similar to Polynesian religions. Filipinos even had the same full-body tattoos that are so common in Micronesia and Polynesia. They only got converted to Christianity/Islam during the colonial era.

@zairatulumierah9436

Жыл бұрын

No we are from Taiwan,we are not from Africa.Our ancestors just intermixed with negritos and Melanesian

@ColoniaMurder20

Жыл бұрын

@@AngryKittens domesticated chicken is part of Austronesia culture.. our shamans in the philippines often use chicken as sacrificial ritual.. also we have famous blood compact ritual when spanish came in visayas..

Really great video.

Great video!

Very well explained, thank you. I'm just a bit annoyed that you mixed the potato and the sweet potato, which are different plants, but all is right because even in Spanish the names are confused often (patata vs batata), so many people have confused both before. I was unaware of the genetic study you mentioned re. Rapa Nui (however I must warn that the "molecular clock" is not at all trustworthy and in my experience tends to shorten times a lot, so I'd much rather use the 1000 years ago radiocarbon date instead). But, anyway, I know a couple of genetic details you didn't mention: 1. Andean chicken show some extent of pre-Columbian SE Asian genetics, strongly suggesting that some chicken were imported to South America by the Polynesians. 2. One archaeogenetic sample from pre-Columbian natives of what is now Brazil (not far from Río, I believe) found Polynesian lineages. This suggests that some Polynesians remained in South America and that eventually crossed the continent by land... or circunnavigated it from West to East long before Magalhaes did in the other direction.

@forageharvest5725

4 жыл бұрын

The mix up of sweet potato & potato got to me too. It didn’t make sense if you know the two species are unrelated.

@roycasey6899

4 жыл бұрын

In NZ in the 1950s my grandmother (who was of Maori nobility ) her people proprogated purple skinned potatoes which they called Peru Peru, her ancestors acquired this bounty from the ancient people of Peru more than 900 years ago. From memory there are about 30 different varities of Maori potatoes acquired from Peru, but I cannot remember their names. They are still grown in remote Maori communities in NZ today. We have a saying where I come from in NZ, we eat only second cooked potatoes. We never eat first cooked potatoes, we wait until the next day, we heat them up the texture is firm, it doesn't break apart like european potatoes, it has a delicious waxy unbelieveable taste. As for the Kumara, this is a common sweet vegetable in Maoridom. It is easy to grow and it can be propogated in large quantities. My grandfather who was European was taught how to preserve kumara by preparing and burying the crop in and underground pit. I know this, because when I was 7 my grandfather gave me kumara to eat out of this pit which had been buried for more than 9 years. When I bit into the kumara it was crisp, very sweet, succulent and juicy as if it were just picked that day. My polynesian ancestors and my European ancestors in NZ embraced a new world, between them they created a society where all people can be equal.

thanks for the shout out and mad love for telling my peoples story but it's pronounced Havai'i

Fantastic video. Congrats

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it :)

I'm not stopping till I watched all 15 videos

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

You can do it! :D

Love the Age of Empires 2 dock sound effects

12k views!? Dear me, this is outrageous! Dear sir, you deserve at the least 15x of what you have right now.

@CogitoEdu

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot :) Glad you enjoyed the video

I love Polynesian, Melanesian, and Mictonesian people. They have a very rich history. They are very a brave, strong, and brilliant people. Along with being fierce warriors and very loving and family oriented, their navigation techniques are the best. And this is way before modern technology was even a twinkle in our eyes.

Love this video