As someone who grew up in the Caribbean Islands, I've always been fascinated by Polynesian culture, particularly the similarities and differences between their culture and my own.
To be honest I think Polynesian and South American have similarities with family and lifestyle. But the languages are alot closer to Japanese than any other language
As a Native Hawaiian who has lived in hawai’i my entire life this is gonna be a good series I have seen the hōkūle’a in person it’s awesome and a great way to reflect on my heritage Thank you for making this series
Mahalo! It's a magnificent ship, isn't it? I'm so glad the patrons voted for this topic-any time I get to inject Pacific history into the consciousness is a good day. I'm only sad that my trip home, where I planned to do some research at Bishop Museum, got canned due to the pandemic.
Pacific Ocean: I am surrounded by a Ring of Fire. I bring tsunamis and earthquakes to every coast I touch. Only the bravest sailors dare to travel my waters. Ferdinand Magellan: Cool. I’m gonna call you the “Peaceful Ocean”! Pacific Ocean: . . . I hope you aren’t attached to the majority of your crew.
For those wondering about more details on the magellan trip watch this, I REALLY recommend Epic History, they produce one of the best historical vids on the napoleonic wars ua-cam.com/video/ylwiOLab5AA/v-deo.html
To be fair, compared to the shipwrecking fury of his passage around the tip of South America, anything resembling normal ocean weather would have been peaceful indeed.
Any advice for a guy planning to work on a ship? My wife and I are thinking of both working on a ship together for a year or two before starting a family to build a nest egg.
"10 hours later, a coast-guard ship came to rescue" Me: "Oh great, he suceeded to find help" "A passing plane have spotted them and Eddie would never be seen again" Me: T-T
There is a "drunk History" video about Eddie Aikau on the Comedy Central channel titled "How Eddie Aikau Became One of Surfing’s Most Legendary Figures - Drunk Historry" which is funny and touching. I'll post a link after this comment in case links are not allowed.
I appreciate anyone who tries to rediscover lost knowledge and wisdom. Human history is so long that there's no telling just how much people have forgotten over the years 😟
I couldn t agree more with you. Wars and other calamities, along with other reasons have taken much knowledge such as Greek fire, the original books of archimedes, ancient building technologies (mainly neolitic, buioders of machu picu, ancient Egypitan and many more), along with medicinal technologies such as that which the Romans acclaimed as a cure for all poisons, Roman flexibile glass, Roman Concretes (various types not just one) and many many more
Like Nordic Damascus Steel Blades. We can make a modern version of Damascus steel but not the ones made back in their time. Nordic blades had carbon nanotubes in them which is improbable for the time, we don’t know how they did it with that technology.
You could say that, coconuts float on water and their shell is very thick and when a coconut tree is near the sea shore it can fall there the high tide will carry it and let the current do all the work
It would be more accurate to say, that the description of the Pacific as the peaceful ocean fit only in comparison to the North Atlantic. There's a reason the RN didn't use deck parking on their carriers in WWII and the USN did.
@@ethanhatcher5533 Aren't we a a spreading society. That said, an ocean that kills people because it's larger than expected certainly can still qualify as peaceful. I mean, nothing happening is kind of the problem.
I remember Magellean though the Pacific was peaceful after reaching it after passing Cape Horn. From what I've heard that area is particularly nasty, and the south Pacific might've seemed quite calm in comparision.
As a New Zealand Māori,I appreciate people covering our ancestors who risked their lives for new land.I hope you can cover the history of the tribes who inhabit these lands,commonly known as tangata whenua,or people of the land. Kia Kaha!
The 'Peaceful' Ocean? Coming from someone who has lived in Hawaii for a long time, that is not accurate, especially when we have a tsunami Siren and on regular 3-5 Hurricane warnings between May and October. None really hit us, but we are still on guard. We have learned more about space then we have our oceans, like from videos I have seen, we barely know about 10% of our oceans. There are also signs that early on in history, Hawaii other islands had trade with South America. Pacific sailors have been proclaimed as some of the greates explorers for great reason. They are like reverse Vikings, they actually knew what they were doing and where they were going, no offense to vikings.
To be fair, sailing the Atlantic isn't exactly a walk in the park either. There's a good reason it took so long for Europeans to strike westward, and not because they thought the world was flat. (The Ancient Greeks figured that out, like, centuries before the birth of Christ.) So at first blush, yeah, the Pacific does look a lot calmer, if your culture doesn't revolve around intimate knowledge of navigating it.
I thought it was given the "Pacific" name because it was harder to pick up winds to move the ships in the first European expeditions, compared to the Atlantic at least
@@JohnnyElRed No, Magellan was quite sincere about the name. When he first entered the new ocean, he had just passed through the strait which was later named after him. And these waters (like the one's around Cape Hoorn) are very unpleasant. Compared to this, this sea was indeed an "oceanus pacificus", a "peaceful ocean".
to be honest i know very little of these people and culture but everything i learn always amazes me how awesome they are and were and like .... why dont we learn more about them in school and everything? these people are badass
@janjan de vil not a lot to tell a detailed epic story but just a few to say there once was the most famous of which is of course the laguna copperplate which was just a legal document leftover from that forgotten era
3:31 You messed up the conversion to sqare Kilometers. You used the factor of about 1.61 for the conversion that is used to convert from mile to km but for square miles it has to be the square of 1.61 = 2.5921 resulting in a larger value of 165,375,980 km²
When I saw Moana for the first time I wondered about Micronesia/Melanesia/Polynesia. As a Spaniard and student of History at university I had to study The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II and it's importance, how geography had an impact in the past. Seeing this makes me know that this series is gonna be one of your best works. Actually can't wait to see where it's heading. Thank you very much for creating these videos. Keep it up!
Austronesia. Micronesia was settled separately. Polynesians are descendants of the Lapita culture from Melanesia. All of them are Austronesians. You forget that the main "home base" of Austronesians is Island Southeast Asia. And they didn't just go east. They went west too, to Madagascar, all the way across the entire Indian Ocean. Austronesians built the first maritime ships. But I bet that rarely gets mentioned in maritime history books, if at all. The focus is always on western ships or worse, erroneously credit the Chinese as being the "master shipbuilders" who sailed the Maritime Silk Road to the point of claiming that Zheng He was the first Asian to reach Africa, and the basis for China's claim on the South China Sea. Which is laughable considering that 1. The Chinese did not build sea-worthy sailing ships until 900 AD, and they copied their designs from Srivijayan Jongs. 2. the maritime silk road was established originally by Austronesians to trade with India and China; 3. Malagasy are clearly Austronesians, and they reached Madagascar at least 1400 years before Zheng He.
I hope you mention the Austronesians who went west and ended up becoming the first people to settle Madagascar! The history of Madagascar is really weird and absolutely fascinating and it's not discussed NEARLY enough.
Discussed? I didn't know it had any. I got the part where it separates from India, which then sails north and crashes into Asia (lousy drivers, the Indians) And then Madagascar is colonized by the Portuguese. Don't know what happened in between.
@@craigkdillon Madagascar was colonized by Austronesians (the same people as the ancestors of Polynesians and Micronesians) directly from Borneo since around 0 - 500 AD. With evidence of back-and-forth voyages crossing the Indian Ocean. Austronesians from Southeast Asia also traded with South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa since at least 1500 BC.
The Austronesian family that includes the Polynesians is wild in its own size. Besides the Micronesians and Polynesians, it also contains: most of Indonesia besides Papua, Malaysia, the Philippines, some groups in continental Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and amazingly, Madagascar.
0:15 Dang that’s why you bring water breathing potions and depth strider boots always. Frost walker is even better, but idk those people were probably in 1.9 so mabye not
Really looking forward to that series. I always wondered how people knew there are even islands in that huge blue nothingness, let alone finding habitable ones.
When I read the title of the seris, "exploring the pacific", I was worried that you would only talk about Europeans, and ignore the original settlers. So glad that you are talking about the polynesians!
maaaaan! how absolutely BADASS would you have to be to even attempt that in a double hulled canoe. like, thats insane! goddamn humanity can be BADASS at times. also, another way to look at the size of the Pacific ocean is consider Nemo Point. if there alone, the closest person to YOU is on the ISS. like, that's nuts.
I grew up in Hawai’i, and growing up around the people that were in this trip changed my life forever. We still remember Eddie Aikau! God bless him. Eddie would go! #EWG
bificommander depends what you’re using it for. If your business is centered in America, but still deals with the outside world, it’s a very useful map
Eddie Aikau is still remembered through the phrase “Eddie would go” and the Eddie Aikau Surfing invitational for his straight up mad courage in tackling the biggest waves, and the lives he touched as a surfer (where he bridged the gap between local and white surfers) and the lives he saved as a lifeguard. At one surf tournament after he died, where the waves were massive monsters and everybody was too afraid to go in, someone said “Eddie would go” and the phrase stuck, according to legend.
Probably not that difficult. I was familiar with everything from this video (and probably what will be in the upcoming videos) just from having read a book called ‘Sea People’ a few months back. I definitely recommend it if you’re curious.
I love the fact that you can like a video on this channel before even watching it cause you know its going to be good no matter what they are talking about
As an Indonesian (which is another Austronesian country), Polynesian history also holds a special place in my consciousness, because the Polynesian's forefather honed their sailing skills here before making it into the Pacific, and that the Polynesians' cousins here in the islands of Indonesia also became great navigators who colonized Madagascar all the way across the Indian Ocean. Man ain't we great sailors back in the day... *Sings "Nenek Moyangku Seorang Pelaut"
Maui he who slowed the sun! Who took fire from Mahuika to give to the people! Who fashioned a hook from his grandmother's jaw bone and caught the great fish! Maui the tricksters MAUI TIKITIKI A TARANGA!
One of my friends grew up on one of those islands, his family has a few maps from the locals... it's a mesh of sticks and shells that indicates currents and islands.
Stick charts were used by the Micronesian navigators and can be purchased in their natural materials from artisans in airports across Micronesia. The island hopper flights on United between Honolulu and Guam and back afford the opportunity to purchase them along with many other crafts. Consider stopping when the islands reopen again. True tropical experiences are there and in the other affiliated Micronesian islands.
We read the wind and the sky when the sun is high. 🎶 We sail the length of the seas on the ocean breeze. 🎶 At night we name every star, we know where we are. 🎶 We know who we are, who we are. 🎶
🎵🎤 "We read the wind and the sky When the sun is high We sail the length of sea On the ocean breeze At night we name every star We know where we are We know who we are, who we are"...🎤🎵
OMG. I knew all of that about the Pacific Ocean, why did I still think of it as being the more peaceful ocean? Amazing the things you don't question that they teach you in school.
Great to see that the Pacific migrations are getting some love! But please try to make this not too America centric.... In the pacific, the maps are generally Pacific centred (the atlantic is that edges and the Americas are at the far right), and we use the metric system. Hawai'i is important, but so are places like Papua New Guinea (the largest, most populous, and most diverse Pacific country) Kind regards A kiwi.
Heck, I'd be happy if they just trace the entire Austronesian migration. From Taiwan to Island Southeast Asia, to Micronesia, Melanesia, and Madagascar. They always just focus on Polynesia. As if Polynesians were the only Austronesians who sailed. ALL Austronesians sailed. Micronesia was the first long-distance sea voyage by Austronesians. Followed by the voyages to Madagascar. The trade routes to India, China, Persia, and Eastern Africa. THEN Polynesia.
Amazing video! Excellent research and I am proud to be from Hawaii. I enjoyed the Kamehameha series and definitely will enjoy this! You covered this topic very well. I can't wait to see the next episode!
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1:40 ... frequent Hurricanes in the Pacific? .. i beg to pardon... know your Storms ;) Atlantic Ocean has Hurricanes Pacific Ocean has Typhoons Indian Ocean has Cyclones
lol no. if its east of the international date line and north of the equator it's a hurricane. I live in Hawaii, and we have Hurricane season, not typhoon season.
Northern Pacific is Typhoons. Southern Pacific is Cyclones. Northern Australia regularly gets battered by cyclones. Just listen to any of our media on the topic, you'll always hear the word "cyclone".
Do you want to say that... "We know the way"?? That they dont know "How far I'll go"? HAVE YOU EVEN CONSIDERED THE COCONUT????? THE.... WHAT???? (sorry for the Moana rant)
As someone who grew up in the Caribbean Islands, I've always been fascinated by Polynesian culture, particularly the similarities and differences between their culture and my own.
Same here in Belize 🇧🇿
Me too! I live on Guam🇬🇺
As someone born 10 hours from the sea, I’m fascinated by both Caribbean and Polynesian cultures
@@andycockrum1212 as someone born 1200 miles from the closest sea, I am also truly fascinated. But also jealous
To be honest I think Polynesian and South American have similarities with family and lifestyle. But the languages are alot closer to Japanese than any other language
As a Native Hawaiian who has lived in hawai’i my entire life this is gonna be a good series I have seen the hōkūle’a in person it’s awesome and a great way to reflect on my heritage
Thank you for making this series
Mahalo! It's a magnificent ship, isn't it? I'm so glad the patrons voted for this topic-any time I get to inject Pacific history into the consciousness is a good day. I'm only sad that my trip home, where I planned to do some research at Bishop Museum, got canned due to the pandemic.
Polynesians, and Austronesians as a whole, deserve as much respect and exposure as all the other great cultures.
As a Maori of Aotearoa/New Zealand I hear you cousin from a distant island
@@kaisahfx1246 yeah but do you have any idea what an Austronesian is?
Native Hawaiian but sadly left the islands when I was four. It was humbling to see that ship. Be proud!
Pacific Ocean: I am surrounded by a Ring of Fire. I bring tsunamis and earthquakes to every coast I touch. Only the bravest sailors dare to travel my waters.
Ferdinand Magellan: Cool. I’m gonna call you the “Peaceful Ocean”!
Pacific Ocean: . . . I hope you aren’t attached to the majority of your crew.
Actually, Magellan was among the majority that died on that trip.
@@jonnunn4196 it's true that he died but he died in a battle against a tribe. The sea was a catalyst to his demise.
For those wondering about more details on the magellan trip watch this, I REALLY recommend Epic History, they produce one of the best historical vids on the napoleonic wars
ua-cam.com/video/ylwiOLab5AA/v-deo.html
To be fair, compared to the shipwrecking fury of his passage around the tip of South America, anything resembling normal ocean weather would have been peaceful indeed.
Can confirm, as I live in the Pacific
The tsunamis and volcanoes are barely an exaggeration o-o
Sailed over the trench back in '07. The fathometer zeroed out, too deep to receive a ping.
Spent my 12 year naval career in and on the Pacific
That must’ve been a hell of a journey. I envy you.
Any advice for a guy planning to work on a ship?
My wife and I are thinking of both working on a ship together for a year or two before starting a family to build a nest egg.
My father met her and zeroed out too 😨
@@Cloudrunner5k Thx for your service brother! BZ
This series should be interesting. I'm looking forward to learning lots i never knew before.
SAME
Same here!
Same here as well!!
There will be a big test over this material tomorrow
NEEEEEEEERRRRD!
Me: woah this Eddie dude seems cool! I hope this series talks more about him!
Extra History: “..and he was never seen again”
Me: 😔
There's a book about him called "Eddie Would Go".
"10 hours later, a coast-guard ship came to rescue"
Me: "Oh great, he suceeded to find help"
"A passing plane have spotted them and Eddie would never be seen again"
Me: T-T
There is a "drunk History" video about Eddie Aikau on the Comedy Central channel titled "How Eddie Aikau Became One of Surfing’s Most Legendary Figures - Drunk Historry" which is funny and touching. I'll post a link after this comment in case links are not allowed.
"How Eddie Aikau Became One of Surfing’s Most Legendary Figures - Drunk History"
ua-cam.com/video/ijXymGGmJtE/v-deo.html
There's an excellent documentary called Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau, if you're interested.
I appreciate anyone who tries to rediscover lost knowledge and wisdom. Human history is so long that there's no telling just how much people have forgotten over the years 😟
Nice try being deep but try harder
I couldn t agree more with you. Wars and other calamities, along with other reasons have taken much knowledge such as Greek fire, the original books of archimedes, ancient building technologies (mainly neolitic, buioders of machu picu, ancient Egypitan and many more), along with medicinal technologies such as that which the Romans acclaimed as a cure for all poisons, Roman flexibile glass, Roman Concretes (various types not just one) and many many more
Don’t forget about Damascus steel.
Like Nordic Damascus Steel Blades. We can make a modern version of Damascus steel but not the ones made back in their time. Nordic blades had carbon nanotubes in them which is improbable for the time, we don’t know how they did it with that technology.
I think is nice pointing out the reason they were "forgotten" and need to be rediscovered by modern society.
So glad the Polynesians are finally getting the acknowledgement they deserve as some of the greatest voyagers and navigators in all human history.
... if not THE greatest
@@dinguskhan655 here here.
Agreed, I didn't even know they were a thing before disney released Moana (I'm from Sweden)
Yeah everyone sleeps on polynesian sauce
@Klaidi Rubiku They were isolated island people, what did you expect? They achieved a lot when they contacted the outside world.
Ooooh, another history series on Pacific Islanders and the Pacific in general!
Cool!
"This is how many seeds and plants made their way to the islands" are you suggesting coconuts migrate?
Not at all, they could be carried.
You could say that, coconuts float on water and their shell is very thick and when a coconut tree is near the sea shore it can fall there the high tide will carry it and let the current do all the work
Actually yes seed dispersal many trees and other such do it
What, a swallow carrying a coconut?
@@CliffCardi It could grip it by the husk!
It would be more accurate to say, that the description of the Pacific as the peaceful ocean fit only in comparison to the North Atlantic. There's a reason the RN didn't use deck parking on their carriers in WWII and the USN did.
Do you watch Drachinfel too?
@@ethanhatcher5533 Aren't we a a spreading society.
That said, an ocean that kills people because it's larger than expected certainly can still qualify as peaceful. I mean, nothing happening is kind of the problem.
I remember Magellean though the Pacific was peaceful after reaching it after passing Cape Horn. From what I've heard that area is particularly nasty, and the south Pacific might've seemed quite calm in comparision.
Northern Atlantic is really turbulent，it is not very suitable for aircraft carriers to use deck parking for planes.
Plus，the water in North Atlantic is very salty，deck pecking can shorter the lifespan of planes.
This seems like something I've never heard of and will now learn lots about. Great!
Zelda.
@ben that's the best type of history lesson
Did you watch the animation Moana? It is really interesting, mixing fictional narrative with polynesian history and myths.
Yup
As a New Zealand Māori,I appreciate people covering our ancestors who risked their lives for new land.I hope you can cover the history of the tribes who inhabit these lands,commonly known as tangata whenua,or people of the land.
Kia Kaha!
The 'Peaceful' Ocean? Coming from someone who has lived in Hawaii for a long time, that is not accurate, especially when we have a tsunami Siren and on regular 3-5 Hurricane warnings between May and October. None really hit us, but we are still on guard.
We have learned more about space then we have our oceans, like from videos I have seen, we barely know about 10% of our oceans. There are also signs that early on in history, Hawaii other islands had trade with South America. Pacific sailors have been proclaimed as some of the greates explorers for great reason. They are like reverse Vikings, they actually knew what they were doing and where they were going, no offense to vikings.
Just so you understand why it was given that name: in the Iberian Peninsula, we are big fans of ironic and sarcastic nicknames.
To be fair, sailing the Atlantic isn't exactly a walk in the park either. There's a good reason it took so long for Europeans to strike westward, and not because they thought the world was flat. (The Ancient Greeks figured that out, like, centuries before the birth of Christ.) So at first blush, yeah, the Pacific does look a lot calmer, if your culture doesn't revolve around intimate knowledge of navigating it.
I thought it was given the "Pacific" name because it was harder to pick up winds to move the ships in the first European expeditions, compared to the Atlantic at least
@@JohnnyElRed No, Magellan was quite sincere about the name. When he first entered the new ocean, he had just passed through the strait which was later named after him. And these waters (like the one's around Cape Hoorn) are very unpleasant. Compared to this, this sea was indeed an "oceanus pacificus", a "peaceful ocean".
to be honest i know very little of these people and culture but everything i learn always amazes me how awesome they are and were and like .... why dont we learn more about them in school and everything? these people are badass
“Eddie would go.”
I'm glad someone said this.
Yup glad I found this comment
You beat me haha.
I come here to ask: what would Eddie do? But I see someone already answered it..
That's a tender subject.
I hope you also give Micronesia some justice in this series!
They deserve to be more recognized!
This seems like a interesting series
As a Native Hawaiian I can assure you this will be a good series
the Philippines is rich with history dating back even before spaniards arrived, please do a Philippines series
They did a series on the majapahit a long time ago , if that helps ...
Davide Garuti yes but that scratches the surface
@@davidegaruti2582 it's majapahit 😩
@@nabielw thanks for the correction
@janjan de vil not a lot to tell a detailed epic story but just a few to say there once was
the most famous of which is of course the laguna copperplate which was just a legal document leftover from that forgotten era
3:31 You messed up the conversion to sqare Kilometers. You used the factor of about 1.61 for the conversion that is used to convert from mile to km but for square miles it has to be the square of 1.61 = 2.5921 resulting in a larger value of 165,375,980 km²
When I saw Moana for the first time I wondered about Micronesia/Melanesia/Polynesia. As a Spaniard and student of History at university I had to study The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II and it's importance, how geography had an impact in the past. Seeing this makes me know that this series is gonna be one of your best works. Actually can't wait to see where it's heading.
Thank you very much for creating these videos. Keep it up!
Austronesia. Micronesia was settled separately. Polynesians are descendants of the Lapita culture from Melanesia. All of them are Austronesians. You forget that the main "home base" of Austronesians is Island Southeast Asia. And they didn't just go east. They went west too, to Madagascar, all the way across the entire Indian Ocean. Austronesians built the first maritime ships. But I bet that rarely gets mentioned in maritime history books, if at all.
The focus is always on western ships or worse, erroneously credit the Chinese as being the "master shipbuilders" who sailed the Maritime Silk Road to the point of claiming that Zheng He was the first Asian to reach Africa, and the basis for China's claim on the South China Sea. Which is laughable considering that 1. The Chinese did not build sea-worthy sailing ships until 900 AD, and they copied their designs from Srivijayan Jongs. 2. the maritime silk road was established originally by Austronesians to trade with India and China; 3. Malagasy are clearly Austronesians, and they reached Madagascar at least 1400 years before Zheng He.
I hope you mention the Austronesians who went west and ended up becoming the first people to settle Madagascar!
The history of Madagascar is really weird and absolutely fascinating and it's not discussed NEARLY enough.
Discussed? I didn't know it had any.
I got the part where it separates from India, which then sails north and crashes into Asia (lousy drivers, the Indians)
And then Madagascar is colonized by the Portuguese.
Don't know what happened in between.
@@craigkdillon Madagascar was colonized by Austronesians (the same people as the ancestors of Polynesians and Micronesians) directly from Borneo since around 0 - 500 AD. With evidence of back-and-forth voyages crossing the Indian Ocean.
Austronesians from Southeast Asia also traded with South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa since at least 1500 BC.
All Austronesians voyaged, Polynesians are given credit as they are arguably the best.
Is it Tonga time? I think it's Tonga time
The sun is a deadly laser...
Has anyone colonized Madagascar yet? Let's do it together.
But now there is a blanket
Good job Gokturks
It's always Tonga time.
Always glad to see Hawaiian histories on this amazing show.
I'm so proud to see Eddie Aikau and his story being told.
ESPN did a 30 for 30 on him. Its one of the best of that series, which is saying something.
The Austronesian family that includes the Polynesians is wild in its own size. Besides the Micronesians and Polynesians, it also contains: most of Indonesia besides Papua, Malaysia, the Philippines, some groups in continental Southeast Asia, Taiwan, and amazingly, Madagascar.
The origin of the Malagasy natives is crazy. Some originate from Eastern Africa, others originate from Indonesia!
And up to Japan
0:15 Dang that’s why you bring water breathing potions and depth strider boots always. Frost walker is even better, but idk those people were probably in 1.9 so mabye not
Nah dude bring some doors too, you gotta take a breath sometimes.
@@florbengorben7651 Don't doors get flooded now?
@@chanbricks4461 unless u waterlogged them on purpose then no
Well, hello Dune reference. Haven't seen you since the Majapahit series.
Really looking forward to that series. I always wondered how people knew there are even islands in that huge blue nothingness, let alone finding habitable ones.
Everytime Extra Credits post a video my heart always gets excited. Thank you for keeping us company throughout the pandemic.
Extra History: Hawaii a meeting point between the America’s and Asia.
Midway Island: wait what?
Well pearl harbor happened first...
Midway is technically in Hawaii
@@Slayer_Jesse what does pearl harbor have to do with anything?
Nice joke but midway is in hawaii
@@DrewLSsix World War 2...
When I read the title of the seris, "exploring the pacific", I was worried that you would only talk about Europeans, and ignore the original settlers. So glad that you are talking about the polynesians!
maaaaan! how absolutely BADASS would you have to be to even attempt that in a double hulled canoe. like, thats insane! goddamn humanity can be BADASS at times. also, another way to look at the size of the Pacific ocean is consider Nemo Point. if there alone, the closest person to YOU is on the ISS. like, that's nuts.
I grew up in Hawai’i, and growing up around the people that were in this trip changed my life forever. We still remember Eddie Aikau! God bless him. Eddie would go! #EWG
"The ocean is a dessert with its life underground and the perfect disguise above" - America (the band)
It is a bit too salty to be a confection.
3:35 That my friends, is what world map looks like in China and other eastern Asian countries.
Either one is better than those America-centered maps that cut Eurasia in half.
bificommander depends what you’re using it for. If your business is centered in America, but still deals with the outside world, it’s a very useful map
bificommander ironically those aren’t even commonly used in America lol.
I have on that I bought in China. Always thought it made more sense that way, though not sure why exactly.
Not really. In China, the world map is encircled with a 70,000-dash line marked with "Property of China."
As someone who was born and raised in Hawaii for 9/15 years of my life, I can confidently say that I am fascinated with Polynesian culture.
Eddie Aikau is still remembered through the phrase “Eddie would go” and the Eddie Aikau Surfing invitational for his straight up mad courage in tackling the biggest waves, and the lives he touched as a surfer (where he bridged the gap between local and white surfers) and the lives he saved as a lifeguard. At one surf tournament after he died, where the waves were massive monsters and everybody was too afraid to go in, someone said “Eddie would go” and the phrase stuck, according to legend.
My man Ahmed Ziad Turk sponsoring the Polynesian settlement of ocean rocks
Ahmed Ziad Turk the GOAT
This must have been hard to find information on, looking forward to the next one!
Probably not that difficult. I was familiar with everything from this video (and probably what will be in the upcoming videos) just from having read a book called ‘Sea People’ a few months back. I definitely recommend it if you’re curious.
From Rapa Nui to Madagascar, from Hawaii to New Zealand, Austronesians are indeed the best mariners in the history!
I love the music. Extra History usually has great music, but this one is calming and stays with the theme.
I was learning about this in school until you know Corona happend
Nehemiah Myers aah such a bummer
*COVID-19
I love the fact that you can like a video on this channel before even watching it cause you know its going to be good no matter what they are talking about
I've been staring at the edge of the water..
As a native Hawaiian that’s feels pretty relevant everywhere I go on this island I hit water
The Polynesians truly were some of the best sailors and travellers of all time wonderful exploring and journeys
4:50 love the little mermaid reference
4:50 gotta love how kyle caught flounder
Now this is history that is often so overlooked :D
I appreciate how you started the arrow of pacific island culture at Taiwan.
AUE AUE
WE SET A COURSE TO FIND
A BRAND NEW ISLAND EVERYWHERE WE ROW
Aue, aue,
We keep our island in our mind,
And when it’s time to find home,
We know the way!
There we go I was looking for someone to sing this song
As an Indonesian (which is another Austronesian country), Polynesian history also holds a special place in my consciousness, because the Polynesian's forefather honed their sailing skills here before making it into the Pacific, and that the Polynesians' cousins here in the islands of Indonesia also became great navigators who colonized Madagascar all the way across the Indian Ocean. Man ain't we great sailors back in the day...
*Sings "Nenek Moyangku Seorang Pelaut"
When you say Hawaii with the "v" sound, i think about the South Park episode talking about Haoles
Its actually the proper way to pronounce the word. In Hawaiian the letter "w" is prounced like "v".
Now we need Maui in Extra Mythology
*Hawaiian supa man intro fades in
Maui he who slowed the sun!
Who took fire from Mahuika to give to the people!
Who fashioned a hook from his grandmother's jaw bone and caught the great fish!
Maui the tricksters
MAUI TIKITIKI A TARANGA!
@@kaisahfx1246 what can I say except you're welcome....
Polynesians. One of the most yet underrated navigators.
Yep. Using your balls to feel the ocean current is pretty dope.
7:32 giving me major Lava vibes
As a resident of Hawaii I really appreciate this specific topic.
I hope they mention Thor Heyerdahl and Kon Tiki.
Oh, yeah! :D
Even though his theory was proven incorrect, that was an awesome adventure.
I'm grateful for this series. Pacific history doesn't get enough attention and the Polynesians were the greatest seafarers in preindustrial history.
Other Polynesians: We used the stars and currents to navigate the seas
Kupe: I just followed this cloud
Milky way cloud of stars if you want to tie him to tama rereiti.
Extra History can turn a bad day into a great one!
No one:
Dutch : wE neEd tO Go tO TAHITI, Arthur!
THE DUTCH: WE NEED TO COLONIZE AND MONOPOLIZE NUSANTARA
JUST HAVE SOME GODDAMN FAITH
I HAD A GOD DAMN *_P L A N_*
One of my friends grew up on one of those islands, his family has a few maps from the locals... it's a mesh of sticks and shells that indicates currents and islands.
Stick charts were used by the Micronesian navigators and can be purchased in their natural materials from artisans in airports across Micronesia. The island hopper flights on United between Honolulu and Guam and back afford the opportunity to purchase them along with many other crafts. Consider stopping when the islands reopen again. True tropical experiences are there and in the other affiliated Micronesian islands.
As a Polynesian. Thank God for the lack of mineral resources. Otherwise our island will become a battleground for foreign countries.
Rapa Nui:
It kind of was, until they figured out how to make phosphates without Guano
Very true. We as a species of ape are pretty selfish with regards to our use of the natural world.
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Dont blame the entire human "species" for the actions of rich white Europeans.
Well, unless you're Nauru. Their island has been ruined by foreign phosphate mining.
My favorite channel on UA-cam ❤️
0:34 "Eddie would go"
That Marianas Trench depth perspective is really fascinating...and equally terrifying for my thalassophobic self.
Captain Cook: Hey Look, Iron Nails!
The Hawaiians: *I've seen enough, im satisfied*
From Philippines one of the indigenous people thanks for sharing your stories!
The people that actually SUCCEEDED in conquering an ocean
Polynesians>Caligula
The math checks out on that.
Caligula succeed, how did you think Britannia was conquered
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Unfortunatly it was conquered after Caligula.
It was conquered by by legions sent by Caligula's uncle Claudius a few years after Caligula had been assassinated.
The Martial Lord of Loyalty yeah but you have to cross it first, Caesar failed because the ocean blew him off course and killed his legions
We read the wind and the sky when the sun is high. 🎶
We sail the length of the seas on the ocean breeze. 🎶
At night we name every star, we know where we are. 🎶
We know who we are, who we are. 🎶
I'm getting Moana flashbacks [content sigh]
What can I say except your welcome.
Underrated movie. MUCH better than, ugh, Frozen.
Yes, more maritime history! My love for archipelagos is being fulfilled by this channel so well
"No food or water could be attained from along the way."
* Thor Heyerdahl burps in your face.
Wooow.. the beginning is already catching my Eye, PLEASE KEEP UO THE GREAT WORK- **They fires flares? THEY ARE PYRO’S?!**
5:30 what you came for, your welcome.
Im from Guam and this touched my heart that our history is being explored.
Anyone else hear “We know the Way” from Moana while watching this...
No... just me
Alright then
(Proceeds to start singing)
Did you know Moana is the Polynesian word for Ocean?
thawhiteazn yes, I was aware 😉
I heard it too.
Currently playing in my head.
🎵🎤 "We read the wind and the sky
When the sun is high
We sail the length of sea
On the ocean breeze
At night we name every star
We know where we are
We know who we are, who we are"...🎤🎵
I listened to a whole podcast about the first people of New Zealand, I love learning about this stuff, excited for more!
Even the mighty Pacific is dwarfed by the creation to fulfill human's dream of flight.
The ancient Polynesians would approve. If they could have gone to the stars they would have.
@@martins.4240 The stars are like an infinite ocean of lights amidst darkness. However, you need a slightly different kind of vessel to sail them...
Pacific Ocean is a massive place with a history worth watching.
Man the Pacific is crazy deep. Stay well out there everybody, and Jesus Christ be with you friends.😊
OMG. I knew all of that about the Pacific Ocean, why did I still think of it as being the more peaceful ocean? Amazing the things you don't question that they teach you in school.
Great to see that the Pacific migrations are getting some love! But please try to make this not too America centric.... In the pacific, the maps are generally Pacific centred (the atlantic is that edges and the Americas are at the far right), and we use the metric system. Hawai'i is important, but so are places like Papua New Guinea (the largest, most populous, and most diverse Pacific country)
Kind regards
A kiwi.
Heck, I'd be happy if they just trace the entire Austronesian migration. From Taiwan to Island Southeast Asia, to Micronesia, Melanesia, and Madagascar. They always just focus on Polynesia. As if Polynesians were the only Austronesians who sailed. ALL Austronesians sailed. Micronesia was the first long-distance sea voyage by Austronesians. Followed by the voyages to Madagascar. The trade routes to India, China, Persia, and Eastern Africa. THEN Polynesia.
I'm so excited for this series!!! Thank you!
I feel like y'all should try to use the name Rapa Nui as much as possible instead of Easter Island.
The pacific islands are never discovered in history class. I appreciate this so much
“Havaii”
glad to see i'm not the only one who was hearing this.
In the Hawaiin language, Ws are pronounced like English Vs
Michael Gagnon In the words of my Hawaiian friend, “The only people who say ‘Havaii’ are people trying to sound smart”
Ali's artwork was really beautiful in this segment with the vast ocean views.
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Amazing video! Excellent research and I am proud to be from Hawaii. I enjoyed the Kamehameha series and definitely will enjoy this! You covered this topic very well. I can't wait to see the next episode!
Who is Ahmed Ziad Turk in the credits? I always see him there
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It'd be so cool to watch a series on Magellan!
Dang gimme some nails
The way they navigate is quite impressive with their skills...
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I am very thankful for extra history for visiting this topic as Polynesians are one of the most underrated cultures in history.
1:40 ... frequent Hurricanes in the Pacific? .. i beg to pardon... know your Storms ;)
Atlantic Ocean has Hurricanes
Pacific Ocean has Typhoons
Indian Ocean has Cyclones
lol no. if its east of the international date line and north of the equator it's a hurricane.
I live in Hawaii, and we have Hurricane season, not typhoon season.
Northern Pacific is Typhoons. Southern Pacific is Cyclones. Northern Australia regularly gets battered by cyclones. Just listen to any of our media on the topic, you'll always hear the word "cyclone".
I'm so excited for this series!
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Im glad papa mau was alive long enough to teach us the art in modern times.
Do you want to say that... "We know the way"??
That they dont know "How far I'll go"?
HAVE YOU EVEN CONSIDERED THE COCONUT?????
THE.... WHAT????
(sorry for the Moana rant)