Exploring the Pacific - Founders & Lost Cities - Extra History - Part 3 

I love how every time a chicken appears in this series, it’s Hei Hei.

As a Chamorro, it’s so cool and fills me with such pride to see you talk about us and you really talk about Islander cultures in all their diversity. And it’s amazing you highlight that part. Thank you so much, this is so cool.

Honestly I would definitely listen to you "go on and on" cultural differences in the region, this is so interesting!

Pākehā (New Zealand European) here. Have been a massive fan of extra history since 2015. It's awesome to see you guys spreading the fascinating history of the Polynesians-definitely one of the more underappreciated cultures in the Western consciousness.

It’s sad how a history and culture so cool is often overlooked

You guys wanna know what all the influential figures in history have in common? They all wear name-initial tags.

Fun fact: Several Andean cultures that appeared before the Inca Empire had one ancestor that come from the Pacific Ocean. One example was the Chimu culture, who got dominated by the Incas. Their first king and founding father was Tacaynamo, a warrior from a land far away in the ocean. It is possible that Tacaynamo was a polynesian, maybe Hawaiian.

It’s kinda beautiful that people who are separated by hundreds of kilometres can sometimes still have similar languages but still be separate from each other in so many ways

Let's see how diverse our Austronesian language after separated for thousands of years, this is in Javanese : 1 (Siji / Esa) 6 (Enem) 2 (loro) 7 (Pitu) 3 (Telu) 8 (Wolu) 4 (Papat) 9 (Songgo) 5 (Limo) 10 (Sadoso) Island (Pulo) Bird (Manuk) Fish (Ikan /Iwak) Boat (Parahu) Water (Air) Eyes (Mata) Ear (Talinga)

8:01 1300 _BCE_ or _CE_ ? Is this a typo in the script or did I misunderstand something? 4:33 "A millennium-long pause..." 5:03 "Around 900 CE, the expansion began again..."

At Disney’s Polynesian Village, one of the long houses is named Aotearoa. New Zealand is a beautiful country with unique wildlife

4:15 on the other hand. This prevented the nations of the south pacific from losing a war to a bunch of giant flightless birds in the 1930s. Alas the great Emu war. Also Extra History: Emu War soon?

I honestly love the myths of the Islands and how they were found or made. This is such a great series

absolutely love Polynesian culture!! have been reading about it for years now. they even made it to madigascar 1000 years before anyone from the mainland made it there. i know we're just talking about tbe pacific right now, but they also went far far west

I'm Pohnpeian! I've been in Nan Madol. It's name translates to "The Spaces In Between", or something like that. Pohnpei also translates to "Upon a stone altar". Or "upon stone", but that's less magical. My island might've been in this video for like 4 seconds but it still makes my heart swell to hear it, even if the pronunciation is a little off :P In our oral history, Pohnpei was supposedly settled by a group of sailors led by a man named Sapwkini (who may have been from Kosrae!). If I remember correctly, it was 5 people, 2 men and 3 women? Or maybe the other way around. One of these women is my ancestor! On the voyage to Pohnpei, Sapwkini and his sailors encountered an octopus named Lidakika and asked it for directions to somewhere they could make their home. Lidakika directed them towards a reef that it was living in. Sapwkini sailed to the reef, and with the help of his fellow sailors, they used magic to float rocks from the ocean up on top of the reef, and then they built the island on top of those rocks. Hence the name, Pohnpei! Additionally, Nan Madol was built by two twin sorcerers from Kosrae (maybe :P), their names being Olsohpa and Olsihpa. They were trying to find a place to build an altar to their gods, and sailed to Pohnpei. They actually tried multiple times before they settled on where to build, one of these times they stopped because they supposedly stumbled upon a stairway that led to an underwater city for the gods. A lot of stuff I've read about isn't sure how they managed to build the city, the most popular theory being that they quarried rocks from other islands and somehow transported them to Pohnpei. The traditional oral histories say that they used a dragon to help. Once the city was built, Olsihpa passed away. Olsohpa united the clans of Pohnpei under essentially an emperor, who was called Saudeleur. Thus began the Saudeleur dynasty! I don't wanna say too much on the off chance that Extra Credits is planning more but if anybody is interested, I'd love to share more about my heritage.

looks cool, im interested

This is cool stuff to learn

Man I been watching extra history for years now and I think it’s great that you did a pacific series. I’m from the Northern Mariana islands (Micronesia) and I’m half breed Chamorro/Carolinian(refaluwasch). Rep your islands ! United NESIA. The ocean never separated us. It connected us.

Those 1000 years of passive settlement before restarting migration is the same 1000 years of Maui's stay on that island in the movie. The movie soundtrack makes a point of Maui's disappearance and the theft of the heart as the reasons for the pause in travel. He wasn't there to help against the monsters. (The song "Unstoppable")

As a Filipino, im kinda excited with the next episode, the Manila Galleon.

They sailed due west to the Philippine Islands Magellan was pleased as the natives drew near But then someone shouted _"I think they're attacking!"_ Magellan said *"Wat?"* And got hit by a spear!

2:59 Moana chicken detected

They had more side quests than Ibn Battuta Change my mind.

8:03 should be 1300 CE.

I'm a kiwi (from New Zealand) and it is so cool to see people covering the great things these people accomplished.

It's so amazing how much people look over in history

I love the Polynesian myths where beasts defeated become Islands. Here in Hawaii, giant Mo`o, or Lizard creatures, would be slain by Maui, and parts of the Mo`o would become small islands or rocky masses in the middle of rivers or bays. Other rocky masses like "Maui's Canoe" can be seen in Wailuku river, the myth is that he parked there to save his Mother from a Mo`o that hid behind a water fall.

Do you mean to use “CE” because at 8:04 there is 1,300 BCE (Before Common Era) or Before Christ but Cook did his discoveries in the 18th century 1,700 CE (Common Era) or AD year of our lord or Anno Domini because of this mistake in this video It makes it seem all this took place during the New Kingdom of Ancient Egypt.

imagine boating 2000 miles just to beat up an octopus to create new zeland. I prefer the story that new zeland doesn't exist

I'm a half maori half cook island from New Zealand in our oral history we have also migrations from California and Peru into the pacific landing in Hawaii tahiti and rapa nui

I am always impressed with how your extra-history series is on-point and respectful of the nuance in telling history. I also appreciate how you guys give weight and value to oral history, as it is traditionally overlooked in preference for colonial methods of reconstructing history. I would love to see more extra-history series on some of the Indigenous and Colonial history in North America and/or Canada, especially a series that can highlight the way that the Europeans relied on indigenous people in N. America to survive, then (in Canada) made treaties with the diverse Indigenous people, and then oppressed the Indigenous peoples through colonial law and policies (including the infamous "kill the Indian in the child" Residential School policies). Sincerely, a Dutch-Canadian

I just wanted to say thank for talking about Polynesian history.Due to being an oral culture a lot of what we know has being lost because of colonialism.And it's difficult to find pretty much anything about it on RU-vid I hope you can make even more video about the Pacific in general! From a Tahitian viewer,happy that someone talk about their culture for once.

Nan Madol is quite the impressive place! Thanks for talking about it. Also, I'd definitely support an episode about all the different cultures variants in the pacific ocean.

Hearing Hawaii pronounced "Ha-fay-ee" is like hitting a speedbump every time.

Videos like these remind me of my anthropology classes as an undergrad. Those were some good classes. Shout out to Dr. Wilhoit if you’re watching somewhere out there! Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊

Awesome video! Always wanted to know more about the cultures and people of Oceania - they are very diverse.

This was interesting, I'd be happy to see more videos exploring this

I just started to watch this series an hour ago! This is a gratifying surprise! Hahahaha

1:00 "WHAT CAN I SAAAYYYY EXCEPT, YOU'RE WELCOME"

I can't wait for the music video for this series to come out. The snip at the end sounds amazing.

Guys and gals been loving your videos! thx!

I've been watching Extra History for 2 years now and have learnt more here than in any class.

This was an amazing serie! love it

The Austronesian peoples had yams, not sweet potatoes. Sweet potatoes are native to the Americas.

Please make a video about the claims that the Polynesian people may have discovered the Americas! There are tons of interesting ideas about it including something about the distribution of sweet potatoes!

Happy 4th fellas

Realy good series, I love extra history

it is great to finally learn about such cool and diverse cultures

Loved this series!!!

I am a micronesian from the Pohnpei island. I really appreciate this series and the videos that go indepth of not only our people, but other related Austronesians 👍

I love this series so much.

7:20, that city reminds me of how Tenochtitlan was believed to be in its prime... but obviously with less water around and big pyramids and 'calzadas'.

Love the video! Much love from the island of Saipan!

From what I vaguely remember from my Archaeology and history classes the early waves of migration had boats with two outriggers, which were insufficient for the central pacific. It was the later single outrigger and double hulled designs that allowed it and that came from a different group of people.

EH: Mentions Magellan. Filipinos: My time has come.

YES we would love to hear you go "on and on"!

8:04 don’t you mean CE? Wasn’t it said in the video that some voyages didn’t happen until 900?

I'm half Chamorro and am so happy to learn more about my people! I hope you keep talking about us!!

Happy 4th of July to Extra Credits.

You are great at this keep it up

Liking how you are slowly considering Philippine history as well :) Keep it up and thanks as well for keeping the history alive :) If you only pass on it on this series, hope you can go into deeper depth with Philippine history in a future series.

This is getting good

Oh shit never thought the Phillipines have such a huge influence in the development of the Pacific Islands, excited for the next episode!

Happy Fourth of July Everybody!

You guys are awesome I look forward to every video especially the mythology ones

I cannot wait for next sunday

Now i have watched all your videos for now

Aww I was really hoping for a bit about their colonisation of Madagascar.

video always very interesting to improve its general culture ^^ your videos are simple, but at the same time very complete which is a pleasure to learn, even if as a Frenchman who cannot understand English without subtitles is difficult. Fortunately, the drawings, which are simplistic but effective, help me enormously in understanding the video. Continue like this and look forward to seeing your next videos ^^ (and if you are looking for a video subject, I can recommend the surgeon Ambroise Paré who revolutionized surgery in his time.)

Happy Fourth of July everyone, I hope everyone has a great day today here and for people who make extra credits. I still hope you guys can still do a tf2 video. You guys a great channel and I hope you guys can do a video on value or tf2.

always glad to watch this channel's creations ~ although i need to stretch my brain real hard at times to comprehend what's going on hahahah

Kupe is so annoying setteling all the islands before anyone else can reseach ocean travel.... i mightve played too much Civilisation, dont mind me

It is, so good.

I finally realized! It's this chicken from that Disney movie about the Pacific people!!! I knew I had seen that adorable chicken before! I understood that reference!!

Happy 4th of July!!!

Me: **hears what he says and sees the title of the next episode** Also me: THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE!

Missed it by that much with the calendar graphic at 1:35. You released the video in the week of a Wednesday on the first.

7:15 this gotta be the most impressive things islanders have ever done

Lived in new zealand my whole life and have never heard that octopus story

Nan madol is the name of the ruins in pohnpei, in case you were wondering 7:12

I would love to see a series on the history of the acadia expulsion

What did he say at 7:14? I heard "13th century Pompeii", but that can't be right.

I absolutely adore Polynesia and the Pacific cultures

1300 CE right ? 8:02 Amazing series as always!!

I've been waiting ages for an easter island episode.

Really cool subject

tonga time?

The sweet potato may be the key to understanding South American - Polynesian contact.

I’m from New Zealand and I knew that you were talking about New Zealand as soon as you said the land of the long white cloud haha

Well it's nice to here hear a story about my home contry

Are you going to include the Moriori Genocide later in the series? It's a pretty good example of just how culturally different Polynesians could be

My Anthropology prof probably would (James Egan) probably would say something at this point of "Coconuts" and point you towards how important the coconut was to settling in the early days because none of the coconuts are native to the Islands. They brought them with them. Pigs and coconuts. He drilled both of those food stuffs very hard into my brain. He mostly worked on Yap, though. Still excited for you to get to the Americas... So little known, but so much mystery.

Oh shit didn't expect my country (philippines) to be the next episode. Makes me more excited to watch the rest of the series!

This is fascinating but for some reason I get the biggest charge out seeing Heihei every time you put a chicken on the screen!

This is epic

if 1 canoe isn't enough, just make more canoe, i like their thinking

Next Episode: Manila Galleons Filipinos: Allow us to introduce ourselves

My favorite historical mystery is the great pause that he talked about very briefly. I really want to know just why there was almost a flurry of settlement and so so so much activity and then suddenly it stopped for 1000 years, and then everything was settled super quickly after that and nobody knows why for sure. It just gives so many ideas and I only learned about it last year. It really is kinda messed up how even the basic history of this vast culture is just not taught or lost.

An Extra Mythology episode on Maui would be fun

Everyone talks about how overlooked these cultures are but I like to talk about the insanely detailed noses on the statues on Easter Island