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Description: This video is part of the #OperationOdysseus collaboration. You can see all 17 contributor videos here -youtube.com/playlist?list=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 - youtube.com/watch?v=1_Elh_jo_dc 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 Follow me on twitter twitter.com/CogitoEdu Or Reddit r/cogitoedu Or Facebook @CogitoYT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CONTRIBUTE TO MY PATREON PLEASE SEE HERE. patreon.com/CogitoEdu MERCHANDISE teespring.com/en-GB/stores/cogito-store SOURCES (Affiliate Links) On the Road of the Winds, Patrick Vinton Kirch (amzn.to/2RTAXxT) Other Sources Words for sweet potato in the Pacific - pollex.shh.mpg.de/entry/kumala1 Article about Rapa Nui genetics -universityherald.com/articles/12415/20141024/easter-island-was-not-populated-solely-by-the-polynesians-according-to-new-genetic-study.htm Current Biology - cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30321-X Article about Thor - smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-voyage-kon-tiki-misled-world-about-navigating-pacific-180952478 This website is fun to find out more about Polynesia, the link below is for a history channel documentary hosted on that site - thecoconet.tv/know-your-roots/pacific-history-legends/did-polynesians-discover-america More info on the star compass - archive.hokulea.com/ike/hookele/star_compasses.html Virtual Reality wayfinding - lava.manoa.hawaii.edu/kilohoku Article about chicken bones found in Peru and recent evidence surrounding them - npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/18/291182073/study-the-chicken-didnt-cross-the-pacific-to-south-america?t=1540306949888 More info on Polynesian navigation - languagesoftheworld.info/uncategorized/settlement-hawaii-surprising-el-nino-effect.html The Discovery and Settlement of Polynesia article - www2.hawaii.edu/~dennisk/voyaging_chiefs/discovery.html Article about frickin Sweet Potatoes - cipotato.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SW19066.pdf Amazing study on sweet potatoes that I was not smart enough to completely understand - pnas.org/content/110/6/2205 In Search of the Ancient Polynesian Voyaging Canoe - archive.hokulea.com/ike/kalai_waa/kane_search_voyaging_canoe.html 360 Tour of the Hokulea - the.honoluluadvertiser.com/specials/hokulea07/360tour.php anu.edu.au/news/all-news/origins-of-vanuatu-and-tongas-first-people-revealed SOME SFX TAKEN FROM AGE OF EMPIRES II MUSIC BY epidemicsound.com THANKS TO pixabay.com AND vecteezy.com FOR MANY OF THE VECTOR IMAGES All images are taken from Creative Commons or used in accordance with fair use. If one of your images has been used and I have forgotten to attribute please contact me by email or on twitter I will instantly resolve that. Why have you scrolled this far down? No one reads down here. #operationodysseus #history #polynesia Music by Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com/creator