What Happened on Easter Island?
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Fun fact: Rapa Nui it's not an ancient name of our Island..it was named liked this by tahitian visitors in XIX century. The oldest names rescued by our oral tradition are: "Te pito o te Henua" (the navel of the world) and "Mata ki te Rangi" ( The eyes looking the sky)
The old names of Rapa Nui which fascinates me is "Mata ki te Rangi"."Mata" also means eyes in Malay.The word "Rangi" sounds familiar to "Langit" which also means sky
@@fayhay8011 interesting since those words langit and mata also appear in the Filipino language
All part of the Austronesian language family, a lot of cognates exist between the languages and this can be seen most with numbers and body parts
For example is cebuano we count like
1. usa
2.duha
3. tulo
4. upat
5. lima
6. unom
7. pito
8. walo
9. siyam
10. napulo
It's incredibly similar to Māori
I like the walking moai theory. It makes the most sense as the most efficient way of transporting tall, heavy objects having moved several appliances like fridges and washing machines.
Its annoying to how some people think it had to be aliens or more advanced culture with machines that did it just because those same people couldn't think of how to do it. A population lives long enough doing something and they're to get very, very good at doing the things they do.
Walking makes no sense when it’s 80 Tons that you have to hold with a rope and the only test of the concept resulted in a fallen statue
If they were able to lift the statues off their backs out of the quarry, then why did they leave them along the road, idea being they were dropped durring transport.
@@studiobauhaus7740did you miss the part where they got it hundreds of yards relatively easily with 25 people. Imagine the difference another 25 could have made.
@@Ambuscade94 The facts on the ground of Easter Island tell a different story. Where is the video of 25 men transporting 80 tons with a rope?
Search up the video of people doing this in practise. Pretty recent. Don't insult our ancient brethren mah man
Pacific islanders and their history is amazing. The pure bravery or confidence in their own abilities and the ability of their boats is off the charts. Fascinating.
If they so smart why they so fat jk
Very true. It seems like a beautiful way of living. Moana depicts some of these. Even though it's a children's movie, it's one of the only ones I've seen that depicts ancient Pacific Islanders in that way, and it's really good
@@yyg4632 Look up the Bajau people, also called Sama-Bajau. They’re amazing and they basically live in the ocean, some never set foot on land and those that do get the opposite of sea-sickness, “land-sickness”.
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Life was cheap, cannibalism was prevalent, and women were treated like sh!t.....
'beautiful' is totally incorrect......
@@bluddyrowdy8757 Polynesian people apparently lived quite well. but your right in some sense most of them were kidnapped by slavers and died from disease brought by Europe.
I know almost nobody will see this comment but here it is anyways:
The Rapa-Nui fascinate me, i have a great passion for history and geography in general (I'm in no way an expert, i just like these subjects)
What dumbfounds me everytime is how such a complex and well organized civilization arose in such an isolated part of the world, in an island so small you can walk through it in a day or two.
I really wish easter island was an abundant archipelago, enough to sustain an civilization so we could see what other grand structures would be built there
I think the Heads were constructed to deter others from landing on or invading the Island. If they saw giant figures standing on the shores and cliffs, they would possibly be scared off!
Then why were most facing inward?
Knowing human curiousity, that probably would have the opposite effect
Maybe that's why they thought there were giants living there by early European explorers
Schools should basically put students in a comfortable room turn down the lights and let North do his work. How many times have you seen information about Easter Island? Here he puts all of that together in an interesting and informative way. Quickly and concisely done. It opens so much opportunity for further learning. Quite frankly, this is a big deal video. It would be good for the history channel.
Lol. Good for the history Channel?? It's not a pawn show or ancient aliens, so the history Channel would never put this on. They'd rather create shitty reality shows
100% agreed.
Because I'm chilean and my father was a history nerd I've seen 2/3 of the information showed here before.
The most exposure we get in the educational system about Rapa Nui is the dance. Most schools in September prepare different dances from all the places and cultures within the territory and Rapa nui's dance is always there, specialy the "sau sau"and the war dance for boys.
The History Channel is mostly bullshit like this channel!
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hey man great video! I'm maori so I always get excited on pasifika and Polynesian history videos. Just keep in mind pronunciation because these languages are still used today. Mana is pronounced maahh naahh instead of man ah. Otherwise really awesome and interesting
The only pronunciation that is valid would be that of the inhabitants before contact by European explorers. While the language is Polynesian, the pronunciation was not necessarily that of te reo Maori. Modern Maori pronunciation has changed from a number of local dialects to a modern version as taught today.
@@richardcox3713 yes, its true... but the concept of those words is the most important thing
@@richardcox3713 I guess that's true but it's just what I grew up speaking and how I speak it so it will sound wrong if pronounced without a māori or even another pasifika accent
@@TheHandaman exactly, but these words are still in use today so the pronunciation we use today is important, nobody would reply with "the dialects have changed" if someone corrected a French or English pronunciation.
@@smellysugar8825 yes of course, but is difficult to explain somebody that never came to pacific island where all of those words are still use by the locals.. 🙏, some people think that maori culture from Aotearoa and Rapa nui culture have no relation, in fact, Rapa nui culture doesnt exist, in Rapa nui is Maori culture also.. 👍
I suggest videos on other Polynesian cultures. I found this video fascinating and would enjoy more.
Really liked this video man! Very informative and fascinating to learn about these people who were so advanced but who could not foresee that their most important resources would run dry without proper management. Perhaps if they had just learned to plant new trees as well as they could build their monuments, their society would still be strong to this day.
This video just reminded me of an entire chapter of my childhood that I had forgotten… Bioncle
Always been told that the people of the island "died out". Imagine my surprise when I first learned that the people are still alive.
I’m surprised I don’t see any “ancient aliens” or “advanced technology” comments. I always seem to see some when I watch videos on ancient cultures or civilizations. The History channel has seriously corrupted the minds of hundreds of thousands of people, maybe even millions. But as long as channels like this exist and keep making content, there won’t be anything to worry about. Love these dives into the ancient past!
yes, we have, very advance technology here but.. stone aged materials, thats all..
@@TheHandaman At the time it was quite advanced!
the History Channel only corrupts weak gullible minds.
1:42 the worlds largest beyblade stadium?
There was once a vast land space across the Pacific long ago. A long forgotten apocalypse occurred which resulted in lands being uplifted and some sank below the new water level.
There are long forgotten cities deep under water.
There are Japanese aboriginals, a dark colored people that had a connection to the people of the southern Pacific. They live on the Northern islands off the mainland of Japan.
I have spent many years throughout the South Pacific, from Indonesia through Papua New Guinea, th Solomon Islands out to Fiji. I have never met such a relaxed population of people. It takes alot to upset these people. They are such wonderful individuals.
Thank you. What you said and what you experienced is spot on! The japanese aboriginals are malays race which are called the jomon people, their genes can be trace and have similarity with the jakun people ( aboriginals in malaysia right now ) The long forgotten apocalypse was the great flood during the time of Noah which sanked Atlantis on the western side of the globe, and Lemuria or the kingdom of Mu on the eastern side of the globe. The malays are a big race with multiple sukus or ethnics. Btw what exactly are you during traveling through here? are you a geologist?
I get why the Rapa Nui want the moai back, but I think unless they build an indoor enclosure for the moai that are held in museums in order to continue to protect those ones from weathering it's probably best for the preservation of those moai to keep them where they are.
There is a museum in Rapa Nui....
@@LilithZephirus yes there is a museum, it doesn't seem to be large enough to house the dozens of oversea moai on top of their current collection. I could be wrong, I don't have exact measurements on the museum or the moai, but it seems like they need a bigger place for all the overseas moai to continue to avoid weathering as they have been
@@northdakotagamer for what I know, they don't want to put then in museums, only the ones that are overseas, specially the one in the British Museum. I mean, Moai were supposed to be outside, not in a museum.
@@LilithZephirus I get that they were originally outside but now that they've avoided 50 years of weathering on their soft volcanic bodies it'd be good to keep these less weathered ones less weathered for future generations. These are internationally recognized, incredible works of art like the ceiling of the Sistene chapel or the great pyramids, they should take care of them
@LilithZephirus they'll leave them outside for a generation, then the next generation will blame the British museum for "leaving them to rot" lol
My favorite part of this was “he raised his musket as a reply” you made it sound so cordial like he wasn’t about to blow someone to pieces over them taking his hat
Breakthrough archeology on this topic, their culture about 3500 ppl didn't cut trees to move statues, instead they were genius & used 3-ropes.
They also developed water conserving farming, rock mulching, using lava tubes to grow, later at Contact they hid in these as the Europeans spread disease, took slaves and raped the women.
They were genius to live well on a tiny island with ephemeral streams, isolated yet vibrant, living sustainability until Contact: th-cam.com/video/rut16-AfoyA/w-d-xo.html
It’s crazy to think if they had been more like North Sentinel island they would have survived. They were surviving themselves, they would’ve been such an amazing study at how things go just fine without being invaded or saved or stolen or infected. Going from 15,000 to a few hundred is insane. They still made it though. An Inspiring people.
North Sentinel is a zoo
@@dylan__dogWhat are you talking about. North Sentinel is the futhurest thing from a zoo. The Sentinelese literally kill anyone who tries to come fuck with them lol
@@cousinmajin try entering the lion enclosure in a zoo, see if the lions will come up to play, or try to maul you to death
@cousinmajin the India government literally treats the island as a zoo lol.
Hello, small fun fact. People from rapa nui hate the name "eastern island" since they say is a colonization name that was imposed to their home. In Chile is considered a bad thing to call it like that so it has been thaught for the new generations to call it rapa nui so the residents of the island doesn't feel insulted by their land being named wrongly ever again.
It's Easter Island on the map so Easter Island it will be called. Facts don't care about feelings.
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I love history and your videos are amazing brother keep up the great work
Very well put together doco .
It’s a very sad story . The decimation by ‘modern’ disease is overwhelmingly to blame for its collapse unsure as to the significance of deforestation. Agriculture was vibrant
I wish one day we are able to read the hieroglyphics . alot of the knowledge we have is scant and often laden with bias first hand accounts this is not a shade at you . I only lament the loss
‘Fall of civilisations Easter island if you haven’t already listened to is very good production
I have wondered if the unique geographic location of East isl between tectonic plates means anything , not sure how tho
Polynesians were warlike just as the rest of the world at that time. They just happen not finish first.
@@thevet2009 This wasn't even about being "warlike" you weirdo. They only mentioned the disease that other civilizations introduced into a population completely cut off from the outside world. I've seen that argument so many times in regards to native americans that I assume you will just vomit it out to blindly defend any European "explorers" though
I wonder if the statues were to ward off would be visitors/invaders. Would be pretty intimidating to be rolling up to a little island and see giant heads and figures everywhere.
Absolutely fascinating video!!! Thanks for sharing this with us!
I love the story of Easter Island or Rapa Nui, the Polynesians made great sailors crossing and populating the Pacific in its entirety, they sailed East during El Nino years when the wind came from the east. But on Rapa Nui, they had it too good, just as we do today. They didn’t see the end coming, or maybe they did and a few psychopaths convinced them to pray to the gods, and raise statues to the gods? Bigger and ever bigger statues because the gods weren’t pleased with their offerings until the last, then it was all over, Armageddon.
Just as humans today have had it too good, stripping everything from the land and sea and polluting the air, making insane offerings to our gods: All 5,000 of them, don’t know which is your preferred god so please don’t take it personally. And just as the natives of Rapa Nui before us, squandered their entire natural resource to the point of cannibalism. The natives of Planet Earth learned nothing from this parable and have been exhausting our entire eco system to the point of collapse. Professor Guy McPherson is an American scientist, professor emeritus[2] of natural resources and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona. Has been telling us for more than 20 years we better stop before it’s too late. Now he says, it’s too late and we are in Planetary Hospice. Just in case you’re wondering the building blocks of life, “food” comes from air, land and sea, Flying insects, Birds, Rainforests, Plankton, Kelp Forrest’s, Coral Reefs, Mammals (excluding Man, Cattle and Sheep) all 90% GONE.
Soil erosion, with viable soils 70% gone. Ice Loss via CO2 and CH4 now has 100 foot sea level rise baked in…perhaps in 3 years or 50, it doesn’t matter. Both Northern and Southern Jet streams in failure creating massive heat domes, mega droughts, massive floods and landslides across the globe in places never previously affected. We are currently in an extended La Nina period; the last El Nino was 2016 when Land Temperatures were 3C higher than the baseline. The next El Nino could be the last for Earth’s Native Population.
"End of the world as we know it," Just another of the "5000" religions, that has been plagued human society. Brought about by the same type of "all knowing" psychopaths you mentioned. It is man's hubris of believing that they understand everything of the world, that lead to the civilization's troubles, like it has done to most ancient civilizations.These prophets of doom, have been found to be wrong time after time. Just as the most recent prophets of doom have been found to be incorrect as well. If they had been correct, the world's population would not be half as big, as the "all knowing" foretold that crop production could not maintain the projected increases. Yet it did. It was said that the next ice age was coming about, then reversed 180 and a decade later with global warming. Ocean levels should have already covered our coastal cities. Civilization as we know it should not exist right now. This religion like many others before it, is used to gain money and power. Its man's own false sense of "knowing all" and those who ignore history, mass indoctrination, etc that has lead us to this point.
We know the earth has gone thru plenty of extreme weather variants throughout its history. Its man's folly to continue to believe these false prophets.They have all been proven wrong since the 1960s. The term " climate change" is due to these self proclaimed soothsayers, being proven wrong time after time. The end varied from global warming to the next ice age, as well as many other world ending calamities. None of which ever came about. Doom and gloom sells in today's society's. Its also being used to gain power. Even after falling into this trap so many times, we still haven't learned from history.
@@johnhickman8391 Well Said!
The perfect example of how to conflate a message. Each of your points contra's the previous or next, through slight of hand, deflection and distraction.
1, I am not a false prophet.
2, I'm not selling anything.
3, I'm too old for power now.
4, I spend my time in nature whenever and wherever I can.
5 You seem to be Head of the Herd and I'm not interested it your crap.
Seems you've taken my comment as a slight against you. Was not intended to be such. Your contrived "issues" with my comment are only feeble attempts to discredit its message. I never stated you were one of those in question. You made that assumption, then proceeded to attempt to needlessly show how you weren't. Re-read my comment again, real slow this time. You apparently disagree with my comment, yet have no logical counter-argument, so instead you've resorted to fallacies in retaliation.
@@johnhickman8391 Oh wow! Taken as a slight…god forbid I’m so sorry. Did I misunderstand what you said. Now I’m feeling felling anxious about how I replied to you. Now I’m confused about what you said to me, maybe I’m being too sensitive and I simply overreacted to your comment? Maybe it wasn’t you at all. It was me, I’ve seen too much BS on the internet to know what is real and what isn’t? Or maybe I’m being Gaslighted by a chap with the intelligence of a Goldfish Bowl with twice the interior space? Thank you for your comment.
OK John, I’ve done as you asked and re-read your reply…. It is not my job to educate you: so much is missing, misinformed or totally incorrect from your initial reply to my comment. A small part of what you say is correct, “Religion is a plague on society” led by “all-knowing psychopaths” I know all about psychotic prophets of doom, but in truth it only needs one to be correct….that’s the problem!
I am not that one!
The “all knowing” you’re talking about (I assume is Paul Ehrlich, “The Population Bomb”) written 1968 and not the Paul Ehrlich, Nobel Prize Winning Biochemist? Paul was totally correct in all his assumptions, but he didn’t know about changes in DNA that were on the way led by Norman Borlaug who was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970 for saving over 1 billion people from starvation by dwarfing grains…..It was called the Green Revolution. Perhaps you don’t know about this?
The coming Ice age false forecasts were based on Milankovitch cycles with no knowledge or understanding of SO4, CH4 and CO2 levels or their impact on global temperatures. In truth, I was confused and totally frustrated by these people for years.
Ocean Levels are rising, if you lived on the coast “anywhere on the planet” you would know this to be true. In order for Sea Levels to rise, Ice has to melt. If the Arctic became a Blue Ocean Event (No Ice Left) Sea Levels would rise by zero meters. An ice cube in a glass of water only rises by the amount of ice above the water level, its tiny…. But, Arctic Sea Ice - multiyear ice used to have a depth of 30-50 metres deep and cover 12-16% of the Arctic, it’s now 3-5 metres deep and covering 3-4%.
Evidence suggests that Sea Levels have risen in the past some 300 meters, possibly 400 meters above present levels. It makes me wonder why you question 100 feet?
If all the Ice on Greenland melted the sea would rise 40-70 feet, if the ice from Antarctica melted the sea would rise 100-150 feet. Will it take 5 years or 50 years? Does it matter?
So as for the rest of your last reply, I’m sorry, it makes no sense to me. I understand you’re not wanting to accept this, but not accepting it doesn’t change it.
FYI I get my information from Journals like Science, Nature, et.al written by top Professors in Physics, Chemistry, Geoengineering, Climate, Ecology, Oceanography, Atmospherics, Earth Science
Anybody ever notice how Squidwards house, from the show Sponge Bob Square Pants, looks like an Easter Island head?
The colonizer getting ready to kill someone over a hat is crazy
This is absolutely the most informative history of the island and it's people I've seen, from the beginning to current times. Oh, what these people have gone through, and they're not free yet. Great work putting it all in context.
They are stellar maps, they are out there because they make a star map.
People think old humans were not smart but they had the same capacity of thinking as we do now . I feel they were more closely connected to the earth and cosmos .
they were strong people. they travelled more than 2000 kilometers in ocean and survived on a canoe. this is a feat.
Effn Amazing!!!!
Well presented history overview, I enjoyed this much. Kind of a microcosm view of our global health situation where we do not react early enough to avoid our potential demise to come unseen on numerous issues.
The writing was a guide explaining different skills like fishing, sailing, building, etc. it’s almost like hieroglyphs where pictures are used and not so much words
"...they ate yams and sweet potatoes..."
Both are native to South America. Proof enough for me that, at a minimum, there was contact and trade between the early Polynesians and South Americans
i think if we want to celebrate what these ppl left for us on Easter Island. i think that we should plant trees in memory of them and show that we understand what they left behind & what happened to them in their lives.
by changing what they left behind, you'd be erasing their memory. the island they left behind had statues and no trees, let's leave it that way.
@@rumfordc we need trees to live and actually the trees were wiped out when the asteroid hit in Chicxulub crater was made which wiped out the living all around the world
@@kananaskiscountry8191 It's OK the rest of the world has trees, no need to interfere with the ecology of Easter Island. It's just fine how it is already.
@@rumfordc ur afraid of change and the true reality u have never seen
@@kananaskiscountry8191 and planting trees on this island will reveal "the true reality" ? what??
They probably cut down too many trees to use for moving those statues, causing runaway erosion, ruining the biome.
NO, its not, was an ecological disaster made by an drought of 20 yeasr that kill the whole plants of the island in less than 3 years, no rain for 20 years, around 1500 to 1550, it's a recently Paleo-botanical research by three diferent cientific team, they compare the example with climatologist around the globe, was the worst drought in 1000 years of history in souther hemisphere, thas way we have no trees in the island, was not them... they protect the nature
Fascinating. Well done.
Hearing about the indigenous people protesting their government and museums having statues makes me sick. They dont deserve anything imo. Especially complaining about having the statues returned pisses me off.
They didn’t travel there, they were displaced by the flood…
Yes!
The flood that killed everyone except Noah and the animals on the arc or the one that wiped out Atlantis?
Based and true, the lemmings will deny it but of course, they're lemmings.
The polynesians were a very brave, warrior explorer culture but they also were good at destroying ecosystems and environments. In New Zealand the deforestation and destruction of habitat was well under way when Europeans arrived. NZ could have experienced similar crisis in the centuries later
EDIT and of course then Europeans and the industrial revolution continued and accelerated the destruction
Keep telling yourself that.
Māori had strict tikanga (protocols) around land use and only used what was needed. When colonisers arrived, most of the native forests were culled for farming, mining and housing.
HIS-story also says that the extinction of moa was caused by Māori but how can that be if the moa were still around when Europeans arrived? Māori had already inhabited NZ a thousand years before their arrival... so who really destroyed the ecosystems?
Make it make sense 🤔
@@_.Marz._ keep telling myself that? Straight away you are accusing me of having a hidden agenda. I don't give a crap who destroyed what. Yes, the Europeans cut down lots of forest. In Europe there was countless destroyed habitat and the grass moorlands in the UK were once forest. I'm not blaming the maori for the current level of deforestation, Europeans also did it, and much faster. However the maori were also on a path of deforestation and had cut down a lot. It's not hard for scientists to see, it wasn't thousands of years ago. The maori's own oral histories, and the archeological evidence, shows they arrived in NZ in 1350. Oxford University is older than that. When you're only talking a few hundred years you don't need fossils and carbon dating to see what was there before. The old tree stumps are still there, the old bones, eggs, and skeletons are still laying around.
The Europeans never saw Moa. Nobody ever reported that they did. The only found the skeletons and some egg shells and the maori told them the birds used to exist and were called moa.
@@tosgem Very contradictory. Twice in fact...on the same matter 😩 But anyway. Your original comment mentioned the destruction of ecosystems. Yes, the Europeans pillaged the lands to the point of leaving some areas desolate. There's no comparison. You mentioned 1300's as the first settlement date...I knew then, that was a simple textbook answer. Textbooks & scientists themselves debate actual dates 😩
I'm curious to hear your reaction on recent studies that show Polynesians/Māori may have been the first to discover Antarctica? And you're right...Māori were great orators & I'm aware of many many many stories.
@@_.Marz._ I don't see any contradiction. I said Polynesians had a tendency to destroy habitats, like what happened on Easter Island. It doesn't mean I said they are the ONLY people to do this. It doesn't mean Europeans HAVEN'T done this as well. It doesn't mean the Brazilians aren't giving the Amazon forest a good go right now, or the Indonesians vast tracts of tropical forest and Orangutang habitat for palm oil plantations. Multiple things can be true at the same time, you know. They were a warrior people, great sea farers, adventurers and conquerors, and they used resources like any other people doing what they were doing, would.
According to the following link it's estimated that from before Maori arrival in 1,000AD through to 1840, 6.7million hectares were destroyed. From 1840 until now another 8 million hectares have been destroyed (all by Europeans?) and that another 6.5m remain. In my original comment I said I thought the Maori would start encountering the problems the Easter Islanders found in a couple of centuries, I didn't say they were on the brink.
teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/11674/deforestation-of-new-zealand
The overwhelming consensus is that the Maori arrived around 1350. There are multiple sources that point to it, including the oral histories. There is also evidence of a people more closely related to the Australian Aboriginals and Papuans being there first. Which shouldn't come as a surprise really, seeing as they have been in the Pacific for around 60,000 years (through ice ages and land bridges) and left their trace in other parts of SE Asia that have since become populated by Asian people. It would actually be more of a surprise if they were NOT there in NZ than if they were.
In my opinion the debates that have since challenged the 1350 date are heavily influenced by political agenda's however it's entirely possible there could have been multiple waves of Polynesian migration and the oral histories we hear are from those that arrived in 1350. But archeological and other physical evidence could only allow that to change by a hundred years or so.
Other markers are genetic in Polynesian people, and in the language. Most Polynesian languages are about 40% mutually intelligible and then if you scratch beneath that surface linguists can see they are just about the same with grammar and vocab, it's just that pronunciations have changed. This kind of divergence in dialect is normal for a range of 500 - 1000 years. If they split longer ago the languages would be more different, as happened in Australia where neighbouring tribes have completely different languages, evidence of separations 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 years ago.
@@tosgem If the scientists are unsure....then a vote system of "majority wins" won't convince me that 1300's is an accurate date. As for the deforestation, Māori considered the forest as a mauri (principle life force) that provided food, shelter, building supplies and medicines etc. A vital part of their wellbeing. They wouldn't just burn it, in an unsustainable manner knowing that it was their only means of survival. Especially not 6.7mil hectares within a 500 year period hence why I believe they were here longer and gradually worked the land, all the while preserving whatever was necessary in order to generate new life. It's no surprises we see the effects of colonisation by the Europeans with 8million hectares of depletion in a small 160year period. Such a shame. Māori were and still are strong advocates of land preservation. They have battled (and won) many land court cases to prevent the Govt from developing certain lands. The Tongariro National park is one example. NZ wouldn't have the amount of serene native forests and Reserves if it weren't for the people fighting to stop development.
Biases aside (if any)...You have to give Māori their props. They are one of the very few indigenous nations on this earth, that hold an active Treaty Agreement with their Govt. They didn't forfeit their rights so easily. Clever I must say.
Yet another great upload. 😊
Excellent video !
Remember before the Flood there was a race of Giants, they were all over the Earth.
Nah, thats untrue. Thor, Tyr, Odin and the army of Valhalla erradicated the Jotunar
Some people think that there was no big trees on this isle even before people arived, because of to strong wind blowing often there...
Fantastic video
Practically a complete history 😍😎
"What happened on Easter Island"?
Basically what happened is that they cut down ALL of the tree's to roll those big statue/stones on and by doing so they lost the ability to do the one thing that they were real good at........travel the ocean.
No tree's ='s no boats and in addition to this the ecosystem changes and further food shortages occur. Had they not been discovered by others, they would have most probably died out.
Just like Egypt Peru it's all been tossed around by water and buried in mud due to a huge flood 12000 years ago
Are the scientists covering this up? If this really did happen, the scientists of various fields would certainly be able to put the picture together right? This idea is wholly unsupported by scientific evidence. I don't know why you latch onto such fringe ideas.
@@NORTH02 Our history book was written over a 150 years ago a lot has changed since then if you look at Easter Island you could tell it's been tossed around by water and Buried in mud ,A lot of ancient sides around the world is buried in mud.Think about it 8000 years isn't much time .Just to say we started then ... We are an ancient race ,The proof of our smartness and ancientness is all over the planet .
@@ufo1667 "Our history book was written over a 150 years ago" - Research on history is conducted all the time.
"if you look at Easter Island you could tell it's been tossed around by water and Buried in mud" - No, I'm seeing that/ We know that Moai were buried because of heavy erosion due to deforestation.
"A lot of ancient sides around the world is buried in mud" - Citation needed.
"Think about it 8000 years isn't much time" - This is no evidence for anything.
"We are an ancient race" - You mean "species"? And yes, our species is pretty old, however we know there are older ones out there.
"The proof of our smartness and ancientness is all over the planet ." - So? many other animals are smart and ancient.
@@NORTH02 Oh boy if you think the high and mighty "academia" are pure Gandalf, you're totally mistaken.
Like in all fields of human endeavors, there are vested interests in academic research & publications too.
Now, if you still think the Great Flood didn't happen, I'm sorry to say you're a bit lagging. Even mainstream scientists begin to adopt it as a historical reality now, starting about 20 years ago.
@@zainabe9503 False, peer reviewed scientists are not adopting a "great flood" as a historical reality. That is depending what you mean as great flood. Yes, large floods have happened, very large ones indeed. But a world wide one? No. No paper suggests that a worldwide flood happened.
There is something missing from the entire story line...saying that the locals did all of this does not jive. There had to be influence from the people in South America as this would make more sense.
This is where i spawn every time i start a minecraft world
Quite sad to see most of the natural flora and fauna gone extinct
Always enjoyable! Thank you
@30:21 “Colonel” in English is pronounced “ker-nuhl”, not “kol-uh-nel”.
Easter Island, settled sometime between 300AD and 1200AD. But I have to treat it as some ancient, venerable place, settled by people with sacred knowledge? I live in a country where we've discovered SHOES older than this.
In any primitive cultures it's a struggle to survive and sustain life, I can see why writings are so rare, even if they had a local language, having symbols for every word and putting them on stone or wood is a huge undertaking, surviving kept them very busy as it was.
What happened on Easter Island, Rapanui, is just what happened to Austronesians in general (yes, they're technically still Austronesians) across the whole world, from Madagascar to the West, to the Native Americans of South America in the East, from Jomon Japanese in the North, to the Javanese in the South.
Austronesians had a knack for being colonized, plundered, subjugated and enslaved... heck, even God hisself sent the Great Flood submerging the Austronesian homeland (today's Indonesia) after the Ice Age ended.
I really like your documentaries. Youre a great youtuber, but please, most people use the metric system.
love all your vids mates thanks
I really enjoy your content. Thank you
I thought they found some underwater quarries...
Lol I was just researching this. Perfect timing!
Very nice narration and good story as well.
Anytime I hear "nui" all I can think of is *THE GREAT SPIRIT!* I doubt anyone will get the reference 😂
Great video!
This would be a place to visit.
Imagine if only 1/50 people liked your content
A bunch of drunk sailors had a bet to see who could come up with a new idea to scare the crap out of other sailors!
The Easter Islanders made the statue's so they can be seen by other coming near the island, so someone would come and saved them,
There is now dna evidence that polinecians were present in south America and the name of sweet potato is the same in both regions (kumar/kumara). So it's no longer a theory, it's proven now.
"Head stones" probably for the lost continent and people after the sinking ... . And I'd say they're probably facing in that direction.
I can beilieve how people can be so stupid...
"C.E." 🙄
The people cut down all the trees and left.
very nice!
I wonder how the plant and animal life gets to a volcanic island, especially if it's so incredible that humans could make the journey with advanced cognition and knowledge of celestial navigation.
they just float over. that's how coconuts got to the Hawaiian islands, they were originally from Asia I believe. some coconuts fell into the ocean and bobbed their way to a new place to set down roots. that's likely how sweet potatoes and things got places before humans were doing it.
Interesting subject, left video to look for better source.
What a sad history. Heartbreaking. I hope the Rapa Nui people today get their island and culture back to what they want.
this is not our history.. the 90% of this information its fake..
You hope to pay them a visit? Did you not do any research? Someone went there with chemicals and set the statues ablaze causing massive damage to the statues.
Me when i spread misinformation
Excellent history lesson!!
I appreciate your scientific approach to this island
Me and my class watched this in Spanish class
One day, the belief that history is linear, will be as silly as the belief that the earth is flat.
Not made by people in loin cloths holding spears, sorry. Think about it for a second.
People tend to look down on "stone age" societies but many are unaware of the complex social structures that exist in Polynesian societies allowing such feats of construction. Chiefly authority was very powerful in many Polynesian societies, particularly in island groups like Tonga, and Hawaii where stone monuments were also constructed albeit not to the same scale as the Moai, but it demonstrates the ability to organize labor and resources by chiefs.
Like other civilizations, its always an enigma. If a major catastrophe happened then should be some evidence yet to be unburied/discovered.
Yes, it takes ingenuity and skill to create a whole civilization without the conveniences if metals, and technology available to other civilizations. Our different cultures built seaworthy vessels that could carry houses, and inhabitants. We had mirrors without glass, and made adornments without the technology of fabric making or metallurgy, we could even carve stone, wood, even bone and greenstone. And we did so for thousands of years!
Stone age is a myth we are told. The first peoples were magnificent, much taller, lived for hundreds of years and had technology we can’t imagine. Dont believe the narrative told by the world rulers who have hidden history~
There were stone carvings on Hawai'i?
@@ericlarousse1149 yes but they're much smaller and very rare. I think because we utilized wood more often.
It's always a dice roll whether an ancient history video will be "ANCIENT ALIENS!!1!1" or actual history, and I am absolutely stoked to have found another GOOD channel to watch :D
😂😂 I admit they have me convinced half the time... But it looks like no aliens here just scrappy islanders
What do you mean actual history? Everything is just a guess. No one really knows how the Egyptian pyramids were built. Aliens is as good a guess as anything.
Everything is revealed by those who hold the power, only half to quarter truths. The real truth cannot be discovered by wearing this body, or while doing so.
@@mastervz4806there's many theories about how the pyramids were build like the internal ramp theory which would be the most efficient way. And as far as moving the blocks the Romans were able to move obelisks from Egypt back to Rome and those were incredible heavy. The Romans documented their methods and I'm sure the Egyptians used similar methods.
No aliens are needed.
@@mastervz4806Science isn't mere guesswork. We have a pretty decent picture of how and when and why the pyramids were built. Ffs, we found what is basically receipts over the pay the workers on the pyramids received.
Imagine if you had your whole life back then, you know 30 or 40 years and there's no TV or Wi-Fi or anything that we have today. You would probably build some crazy stuff too
They had their own forms of entertainment like dancing, drinking, drama, instruments, kite flying, hunting, being hunted, etc
Days ended when it got dark, plus the addition of knowing there was a strong class system- the fishing, agricultural, etc classes had their entire morning til night laid out for them; because no one likes working in the heat of the day - but the skilled artisan class would have worked solely for the chieftain/priest class.
Yeah if we ignore the part where their entire daily life was dedicated to things like not starving.
I think of that a lot. Imagine a whole community coming together with nothing but time.
@@dudedabsworth8023 They didn't have nothing but time though. They didn't have a whole foods on the corner that magically produced food, they didn't have an electric grid or running water. They had to work all day just to eat and survive.
Being someone from this island I honestly enjoyed your documentary. I'm thrilled to watch more of your channel and learn about other cultures
¡Guau! Te envidio mucho. Estoy en China. Tengo muchas ganas de ir a la Isla de Pascua. Espero que algún día pueda llegar a este hermoso y misterioso lugar.😊😊😊😊
este video habla un monton de estupideces, por eso la gente no entiende ni sabe nada de nuestra cultura..
@@TheHandamantienes algún ejemplo de "estupideces"? Sólo ha hablado sobre hechos que se han descubierto usando ciencia y tradiciones de los nativos de la isla. Por qué tan agresivo? 😂
The island is deserted
@@fairamir1 the island is not deserted it has about 6 thousand permanent inhabitants
Its wild to hear about all the horrible things these people endured. Intentionally, coincidentally, and through their own actions, it felt like one bad thing after another. But I guess that's how history works. Not much to write about when things are going well
If I remember right when I first found this channel it had around 192 subs. Literally less than 200. Now your at 192k. So glad to see you made it and kept at it. Your content has only gotten better since then and it was always good enough to keep me coming back.
Thanks for sticking with me, I remember those times well!
hey brother man I know it would be an insanely ambitious project but you might consider doing at least an overview of the history of world slavery. It's criminal that schools don't teach it. Dr Thomas Sowell said something like... No other subject that is this important to us is viewed through such a narrow lens.. Arabs took slaves from Europe, dragged them across the desert from west Africa, took them by boat from east Africa, the Philippines and I think both Malaysia and Indonesia. India also took them from east Africa. China also took them from the Philippines and I think Indonesia.America is the only country to ever fight a civil war to end slavery and the British actually did more to end slavery around the world than anyone. The rest of the world never even came to the conclusion that it was morally wrong. Thomas Sowell is a true scholar and is the single greatest source of information. Even if you don't make a video please check him out if you haven't already
@@vincentcalderone5956 very good comment, Vincent. Americans are definitely in need of some balance on this topic . Slavery has been practiced by every society that I have ever heard of, and it's being done right now in Africa, India, and many Islamic countries. Sometimes girls are found in western countries who are being enslaved by Islamic families who immigrated from elsewhere
@@bonnielucas3244 Well hell ! I mean if other people are going to jump off that bridge then gaddamn I'm entitled to do it myself!
@@vincentcalderone5956 you want something to make you feel better about America's role in the transatlantic slave trade? I see.
I remember reading about Easter Island when I was much younger, and the entire island was talked about like a gigantic mystery that couldn't be explained by science or reason. I think that was before much serious research was done into the island's history. It is really interesting to see things considered mysteries just a few decades ago are now so well understood that even if we don't have exact answers, we can still understand in broad strokes what happened. The monolithic stones weren't placed by an advanced alien race or something. Just good old fashioned human ingenuity.
How did rock not available on island get there from thousands of miles away??? It's still a mystery. Only difference is your not 5 believing in aliens
It could also be that the text you were reading was exaggerating. The clickbait equivalent from before the internet.
It was proven by a team of researchers who moved a replicated one with rollers and pulley systems etc.
@@Thehomelessathlete love those ancient pulleys
@@martijnbouman8874 Now that I think about it, I'm certain you are right. It was a book specifically about things we'd call mysterious; what happened to Amelia Earhart's flight, the meaning of Stonehenge, and of course Easter Island among other things. Now I just wonder if that book was intentionally ignoring evidence to enhance the sense of "mystery".
Makes you wonder just how in the.....they found these islands? Who were the bold explorers who set out to find..... Without any modern form of navigation. Truly amazing.
They followed bird and had knowledge of the currents and winds. Expert navigators
There's a lot of dead Polynesians on the ocean floor.
@@Rarasrevenge I don't know the exact terminology, but I believe many (if not all) Polynesian groups had a technique of mentally mapping their position in the ocean in relation to the stars?
And while sails were the easiest and fastest way to travel long distances on open ocean, the crews on board these outriggers, canoes and the like would always be able to rely on paddling, should there be no breeze
Ditto to @ Deezy that migrating birds were followed by sailors, of all seafaring cultures.
Loved how you just stated the facts and theories without dunking on the viewers that believe some alternative theories. That's also a better way to maybe make the rethink what they are believing
Do they really need to re think what they are believing though? People are allowed to come to any conclusion they see fit on an unsettled topic like hoisting 80 ton statues off of their backs lol
This comment is trying so hard to kiss ass while putting people down for believing “alternative theories” as if there is any definitive theory. nobody needs to rethink anything maybe you need to have a little more of an open mind you’re kinda sounding like a really big ass and not in a good way
@@milesruby3271 magical thinking has harmed so many people.
Humans sure do some peculiar things sometimes.
That’s an understatement!! 😂
from pyramids to german concentration camps, yeah mate, you might be onto something here 😂
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They had their reasons for doing it, may not be understandable by us today, but back then there were significant reasons
@@davidsdeanwell yeah almost everything humans have ever done usually has a reason, Steve-o had a reason when he wore a stinging jellyfish as a hat doesn’t change the fact it’s insane lol
Genuine (not backhanded) compliment: If I happen to wake up in the middle of the night, I play his soothing voice to go back to sleep.
Another fascinating minidoc. Your style of presentation is unique & very effective. Love it.
I love anything about Easter Island. It's all of humanity in a little capsule, past , present, ....and future.
@Brandon Letzco if there isn't enough food anymore i think cannibalism is the consequence. You need food to survive and you are programmed to do anything to survive so cannibalism becomes a kind of a basic need. By the way can i ask what people taste like? I'm very curious.
Es territorio chileno...go to Chile to find more info about Rapa Nui !!
@Brandon Letzco thats not true, this is a lie from occidental colonialism..
@@susanagould1554 ustedes son los que menos saben de nuestra isla.. bajese del pony
@Brandon Letzco anyway, it's wrong..
i think what alot of people overlook when talking about how certain cultures must be the same because they used the same technology or building practices is that there is only so many ways to do certain things and there is always a best way to do it, for example axes all use the same basic principle a wedge and a stick/lever, the only difference is the material and how the axe looks and was made but they are all axes. does that mean that everyone is of the same culture cause we all make and use axes? no obviously not its just the best way without power to cut down a tree or chop wood. its the same for building practices and many other technologies.
yes my friend, it's something like that.. I found three smart humans in this post, you are one of them, congrats...
Nope, it must be aliens 😂
Modern humans are so full of ego, that they can't accept that our ancient ancestors were also intelligent, and fully capable of incredible things.
@waketp420 referring to people as modern humans as if you aren’t one yourself is almost as cringe as this comment. you’re really showing your ass with this one and your strange belief that history is linear. most people who believe in advanced technology or ancient aliens actually believe ancient people were far more advanced and capable than we are today and that we have lost knowledge throughout time that we will probably gain again so to white knight ancient people just shows you’re trying to be contrarian for the sake of being annoying.
Watching this caused me to recall another youtube easter island doc from "Fall of Civilizations". Both delve into the mystery of the scattered pieces of history, but narratively tell a very different story. Notably distinct between the two are the descriptions of first contact and if the collapse occurred before or after. I'd be curious to find any lively debates on these differences.
Yes, I highly recommend that video (and channel in general). He makes a very strong case that the influence of European colonizers was the major driver of the collapse of the Easter Island culture and people.
Came here to say exactly this!
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Paul Cooper is one of the greatest storytellers along with Dan Davis.
Well the Europeans destroyed their writing system and religion so that didn’t help
Yes
I actually quite like the monotone soft voice. With the ethereal music in the background - these videos are perfect for when I’m flossing before bed. Thank you!
I really don’t like that people always think that our ancestors weren’t smart when in reality they were just as if not even smarter then we are today.
I think today our imagination and ingenuity is devolving due the the great pressure of capitalistic work and distraction cycles. We spend all our days out either producing very distant produces and ideas and then come home to consume enough to distract from that reality. When humans created for their daily direct self and communal survival and social-emotional substance, the imagination is so open.
@@mari98_maybe some people’s imagination sure. But on a whole no. It’s probably the same amount of ingenuity and imagination as ancient people and we have history and technology to continue to build off of.
@@mari98_ no its because with the advent of modern medicine infant mortality has collapsed and mutagenic load has increased unchecked, resulting in 'g' dropping every decade to the pont the population is a standard deviation dumber than a century ago.
To be fair, they deforested their entire island to make tools and other good for making these statues.
I'm not saying they weren't smart.
Don't use the internet. Maybe it will go away. 😬