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A portrait by New Zealand artist Gottfried Lindauer (1839 - 1926 CE) of Te Rangi Pikinga. She belonged to the Ngāti Apa people of Whanganui (New Zealand) and was captured by Te Rangihaeata at Turakina c. 1819 CE. It is believed she was born...

For the Incas, as with many other ancient cultures, religion was inseparable from politics, history, and society in general. All facets of community life were closely connected to religious beliefs, from marriages to agriculture, government...

Viracocha was the supreme god of the Incas. He is also known as Huiracocha, Wiraqoca and Wiro Qocha. Considered the creator god he was the father of all other Inca gods and it was he who formed the earth, heavens, sun, moon and all living...

Polynesian navigation of the Pacific Ocean and its settlement began thousands of years ago. The inhabitants of the Pacific islands had been voyaging across vast expanses of ocean water sailing in double canoes or outriggers using nothing...

On 1 November 2015 CE, at the annual dinner hosted by the British Guild of Travel Writers at the Savoy Hotel in London, it was announced that the Tucume Museum in northern Peru had won the prestigious award for the Best Wider World Tourism...

A 1951 photograph of Thor Herydahl (1914-2002), leader of the 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition when he and five others crossed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa-wood raft. Library of Congress.

Trace the rise and fall of the Maya city Chichen Itza, and how Yucatán’s unpredictable environment contributed to its demise. – During the 8th century CE, warfare and failing agriculture forced Maya people to move north, to hotter...

Follow Mori Banshirô, a young samurai in training, as he studies the twin paths of literary learning and the martial arts. — The year is 1800 in the castle town of Kôchi, Japan. It's just after sunrise, and 16-year-old Mori Banshirô...

Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/is-there-any-truth-to-the-king-arthur-legends-alan-lupack King Arthur has risen again and again in our collective imagination, along...

Get to know the story of David Walker, an abolitionist whose antislavery pamphlet made him an enemy of the US government. – In 1830, David Walker sewed a pamphlet into the lining of a coat. The volume was thin enough to be hidden, but...