Pre Columbian Americas | World History | Khan Academy

[@AMorgan57]

It's fascinating to me how the early migrants kept going and kept going, all the way from the top to the bottom of the hemisphere. The psychology of it.

[@p.budiel1170]

I imagine so many white people feeling triggered by this

[@EMAGA]

@@p.budiel1170 Lol wot? Why would anybody be triggered by this?

[@CertifiedShovelOperator]

My theory would be that they migrated from the North to the South to find warmer climate?

[@eee4763]

It's a theory not facts, he just let you know that's what certain scientists think but it doesn't add up

[@Kariakas]

I've been really enjoying all your uploads, it's great stuff. You pack more useful historic information in a 8 minute video than the History channel does in a month.

[@kingkemet9502]

I would love for you to site the source of the information you’re providing. It’s interesting to hear such an articulate depiction of the first grandchildren but not acknowledging or even mention the grandparents and their undeniable place of origin.

[@alysaistheshizz17]

Thats what annoys me about history. Most people think these unique and diverse cultures were nothing before European colonization. Not only in Mesoamerica, but even in Africa too. They were there long before the smelly, white dudes! Give those ancient people more credit!

[@kingkemet9502]

FACTS.

[@peterbellini6102]

EVERYBODY was smelly back when

[@peterbellini6102]

Some lucid comments here. History in the Americas has plenty of beginnings, endings and gaps. One of my favorites is the literal disappearance of the Maya; they had an unbelieveably complex society and lost their culture/literacy in an amzingly short period. They came out of the jungle driven by a need for water, developed advanced irrigation systems for their farming and then went back into the jungle with barely a sound....

[@Мурчало-о6б]

Hello from RUSSIA!! In our English book are text about you!! You are interesting, but we advise to you for your appearing in your videos.

[@SusanfindsIslam]

This is really beautiful. Thank you

[@duicwb]

its much older... the incas built Machu Pichu on the top of older and highly technological constructions... and in south of Brazil we also have those civiizations... with big pyramids and stuff... unfortunately my theory is that the portuguese tried to destroy everything and hide every track of ancients here... Thats why we have underground tunnels and other weird stuff here like giant water channels and Stone observatories with giant rocks to watch equinox and solstices... big artificial mounds everywhere I look here... its crazy because there is no evidence of what people was here before the natives... só we call them Sambaquis...

[@edsonnunes8909]

Actually, I'm brazilian and I never heard about any ancient hidden civilization in the south, this is not mentioned in our history, (I heard about pyramids being discovered there though) and the portuguese weren't interested in the south of the country, but it was a place who gathered a lot of europeans from many different countries, like Germany and Italy, and until these days you can see their legacy in the south's culture

[@edsonnunes8909]

Sweet Life First of all, you don't even know our history, second: those suppose "pyramids" are just a pile of sand, it could mean nothing, third: our history is taught by many people, just like the US

[@duicwb]

Edson Nunes Sorry Edson, but you are very misinformed.. Portuguese had imense interest in south of Brazil, mainly in Paraná where they looked for gold in Nhundiaquara River... They funded cities like Paranaguá, Antonina and Morretes. They were all over the place in the 1600 mainly, together with the jesuits... and only after the discovery of gold in Minas Gerais that they moved their operation... Fact is, they were following indigenous tracks looking for gold... I've even read a history about one of those early explorers being received with chuncks of gold by the indians... problably Aleixo Garcia, I don't remember now... Those indians tracks are actually the "Caminho do Peabirú", pathways of rocks connecting the atlantic sea to the Andes... the pathway is still alive and well, and its used for hiking here in Paraná... its also called "Caminho do Itupava". Nobody knows who build it, but we all know the mainstream explanation... It was all done by the colonizers... When you say just "piles of sand", actually you are reffering to ancient graves, huge mounds made of sea shells ... where archeologists found bones dating to 8.000 years BC (the older Sambaqui ever discovered). Artifacts called "Zoolitos" were also found... It can't be natural formations since we can found mounds of sea shells that are located far away from the Ocean... And I'm very confused now... you say you know our history but you don't even know the Sambaqui culture, that we already have museums and stuff dedicated to them, and its a well spread history here in the south...

[@duicwb]

Megalithic structure in Joivinle/SC (South of Brazil): aventurebox.com/uf/55f732ed08b17/adventure/562d7dd20c49a/562d7dd20ffa4-2.jpg Odd rock in perfect equilibrium in Laguna/SC: www.laguna.sc.gov.br/uploads/noticias/relacionada_43200d58e6345df97e261d62d5a983b8.jpg Another rock in perfect balance in Tubarão/SC: 3.bp.blogspot.com/_RYpklfBNKGU/TSxaFqLPOFI/AAAAAAAAA0s/ZMp7I_GWAqU/s1600/fot_tubarao_01.jpg Strange rock found in "Caminho do Peabiru", Paraná, south of Brazil: 3.bp.blogspot.com/-WfwQc_mtlB8/TWUhlIBSmGI/AAAAAAAABmo/OQ-W7BTU2kc/s1600/IMG_2525.JPG Pile of sand made of sea shells: wp.clicrbs.com.br/offroad/files/2013/01/a_BRU2492.jpg Sambaquis artifacts found in those piles of sand made of sea shells: hav120151.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/zoolito_peixe1.jpg?w=768 And there is a lot more... I'm not even mentioning the underground tunnels below Curitiba, Blumenau and other cities... this is just the tip of the iceberg... this is a major cover up

[@edsonnunes8909]

good try, but I think I should have been more specific, I know our REAL history, not only "guesses" of ancient civilizations

[@Pandroo018]

Im Very Proud to be Peruvian 🇵🇪 and we were the first and only to connect with Polynesians and trade foods and culture. I love my fellow Mexicans too. It’s and ancient connection.

[@worriedgorilla6290]

What software do Khan Academy use?

[@yanelkys1]

Very good condense history video. A read a few into the Maya and Olmec and I find it very interesting their high appreciation for Jade similar to the people in China. In regards to artifacts the similarities are strongly similar. I am confuse with the dates because the Qin's Dynasty had similarities with the Olmec where they alive during the same time in history, even though they lived in different places in the planet. Also you left out the Tainos from the Dominican Republic. Thank you

[@Pandroo018]

Ahh the Taínos, descendants of the Arawak People from South America. Friends and Neighbors of ancient Peruvians. Unfortunately they were not a civilization and that’s why he didn’t mention them. However they have a very interesting story of how they went from South America to Caribbean. So sad to have seen them get wiped out

[@samh1022]

why is it that societies so separated all developed farming around the same time?

[@nickmoore6381]

Because mainstream history is likely missing information about the beginning of civilization 12,000 years ago, and there could have been civilizations before that which were wiped out by a worldwide fractured comet impact that destroyed nearly everything and forced humanity to reboot. All roughly around the same time. We have a lot of evidence for the disaster, which humans were definitely around for, and it could also explain the origins of the global flood stories and the idea of hell. Because there was a global flood and the world got set on fire. So that'd leave an impact on human memories. I'm really simplifying but you can look into this if you'd like. We have several anomalies in that part of history that could be explained by an ancient advanced (maybe Roman Empire level or a little more) civilization at the end of the last ice age before the disaster. It could be where the story of Atlantis comes from too.

[@jascrandom9855]

They didn't exactly. But it most likely has to do with the ending of the Ice age.

[@gtp_kaylen1706]

This is exactly 4 years old today.

[@romanhescock1553]

lets go bb. i made it

[@ninetyZeven]

0:30 Just wear a scarf !

[@ethanj6286]

Cool

[@11inall]

Pretty good, pretty good.

[@tomasavitki4488]

Well. I think there is an important misconseption induced by this video. Let's admit that there was a population of 50-100 million people there. The bigest chunk of this population was concentrated in three regions: Mezo-America, Inca Empire and in a lesser extent near Mississippi river. In the rest there were tribes, tribal confederation, and small sedentary setlments. And we speack about two continents, guys. So the most of Americas were indeed very sparcely populated with hunters, gatherers and small agricultural comunities. I mean, you have enormous regions as Amazonia, Pampas, Patagonia, Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, all of the Canada, North of South America which were poorely populated (and even today they are less densly populated but may be for slightely different reasons). So when English explorers came to Atlantic coast of the US they didn's see big cities and people with writing systems, highways and Tesla cars. They saw hunters, gatherers and small agricultural communities. They saw less advanced technologies, not so much use of metals (mostly coper, or a bit of iron in the Pacific North-West) Something similar found Spaniards when they discovered California, French in Hudson Bay, or Portuguese in Amazonia.

[@nannerlmozart1857]

+Khan Academy, why can't I find this video on your website?

[@gigglygoop7659]

I've got a question, why do I feel like the map is bobbing up and down? Is it just me or is it the video?

[@peterjuryobligacion5743]

How did they get the current details of the map during that civilization

[@rumasingh9379]

Europians means ? Looters , thives , pickpocketers ? But its true, my love ¡

[@sovietsniper1541]

I heard that the wheel hadn't been invented yet in America when the europeans arrived. Is that true? I think since native Americans arrived and settled in America much later than europeans settled, it's kind of expected that they would be less technologicaly​ advanced.

[@OriginLinear]

The Maya did in fact invent the wheel. They used wheels for children's toys, never for anything beyond that however, according to what i understand.

[@Liam8488]

I've heard that too, wheels are mainly useful when you have roads, otherwise livestock like horses and mules are far more useful. The tradition of using wheels in Europe probably dates at least as far back as Roman roads several thousand years before

[@OriginLinear]

The Maya also built roads. There were no horses or mules in the America's though, until the Europeans showed up. I think a commonly held assumption is that the lack of decent beasts of burden is partly why they never really used wheels in any practical form, beyond toys.

[@Liam8488]

That would make sense as well.

[@alexluna6745]

+OriginLinear funny i had just thougth about the same thing as well not to far back I think that because of the lack of those the progress of their civilization would have been slower due to no mode of animal transport and therefore no speed of transport or information.

[@omar_catano]

You forgot to mention the civilizations from Colombia! The Muisca´s, the Tairona´s, the Calima´s, etc... they’re around 100 different indigenous cultures.

[@willhauser5736]

Epic!

[@Chill_Koala]

1:38 If columbus bumped into the continent boy i hope that guy has medical insurance lmao

[@dominicrehberger7894]

Chill Koala 😐

[@immasoxfanbaby]

American people and land created the world INDUSTRIES with our inventions here in America

[@dylanmurphy9389]

We don’t need or want world industries

[@immasoxfanbaby]

Turtle island was the continent of America. We were connectedness with the universe of the world.

[@sayanchakraborty388]

please sir Indian modern history . i wait your video .

[@immortalswif1068]

There are structures dating back 30,000 years PERU. .

[@daytuh7602]

3:27 weird flex but ok

[@lawrenceross9743]

Lol

[@peterinbrat]

I think too much focus is spent on agriculture and large structures. I'm more facinated by the Amazonian ppl and the expansion into the Caribbean.

[@theowl1937]

Those peoples actually had large structures (like pyramids) that are only recently being discovered, South America was a hot bed of civilization but due to the thick vegetation it makes archaeology into those civilizations difficult, plus there's the possibility of colonial intervention (cover up if you will) many superstitious Europeans who would destroy records of these civilizations for a multitude of reasons.

[@zahirgarcia4823]

WHOS BETTER RONALDO OR MESSI?

[@immasoxfanbaby]

The Mississippi river was a nile river like Egypt

[@samuelm.hodnettii.2768]

East of St. Loius Missouri the Mississipian Culture Pyramids go back to 15000 to 17000 years ago. Carbon dated by the Smithsonian not European carbon dating which shows younger dates to support old world theories about Turtle Island People

[@milagrosgarcia643]

Does anyone now wich movement do Polinesians use in their greeting? That it's conecte with a pre-columbian symbol...Please i need an answer

[@immasoxfanbaby]

Mesopotamia ancient America was first to be colonized by the settlers

[@rubendarioortizortiz3315]

Should have talked about migration from oceania.

[@theowl1937]

That's a relatively recent discovery, this video was uploaded 3 years ago, if anyone "discovered" great Turtle Island first it was the natives, then the people of Oceania, then Vikings and finally Columbus curse his name. (There is also the possibility of African discovery of america, I suggest you look into that it's pretty interesting)

[@GerardoCSpike]

America has always been the Atlanthis

[@nickanima2]

el profe de ingles me puso este video para que sacara 10 oraciones de el jaja salu2

[@nickanima2]

@Phantom Goku x2, soy del gimnacio bilingue altamar de cartagena (GBAC) SALU+2

[@cherukuriteja5552]

super..

[@wethepeople1680]

Did they form big empires like the old world had?; Did they do sea trade?

[@skylarleitko5097]

They didn’t form empires because they wanted to preserve the land for later generations. Their beliefs were based on the land and water.(hope this helped)

[@wethepeople1680]

@Juan Ramirez Anzures I learnt history in school..but nothing of native Americans

[@matthewmann8969]

In order the groups that came to The Americas from first to last Amerindians, Eskimos, Polynesians, East Asians, North Europeans, West Africans, Southern Europeans, West Europeans, And everyone else

[@kingkemet9502]

With all due respect, but does that sound like it even makes sense to you?

[@dylanmurphy9389]

West Africans before Southern Europeans? 😂 it was the southern countries like Portugal and Spain that first took west Africans there

[@plumtree8713]

Bro age of earth is like 6k years old

[@KayKayPlayz-]

:)

[@KayKayPlayz-]

itz a me from k 12 :)

[@brandonbaugh6128]

it was genocide.

[@arasethw]

Tell me, What do you do when the Archeologist across our Ohio State are to afraid or to corrupt to Admit to a site ! Because of its State cover up & the site's size and Age ? Very Old , Very Large Covering Parts of 3 States , The standard B.S. archaeological line [a glacier did it] Not really sure how a Glacier actually makes Ceramics, Glass , stone work , Burials And a Documented Unresearched Mound Twice the Size of Monks Mound Cahokia ? I own a 1960's Intentionally Destroyed Covered over Burial ground in one valley and Part of the Ancient City on top of an End Moraine in another Valley ! To sum up how do we stop archaeological fraud ? Our gutless archaeologists are screwing upcoming archaeologist out of a job ! Need F.B. to view [apology]

[@j0nas5]

7:03 whawhawhaaaat?! So in that specific region (I assume) In the next 150 years people litterally died like on a 94% rate under 150 years which is like 1716 deaths/day 12K/week, 48k/month and over 600k/year? Damn..... I wonder what the existing rate is... Anyway we should be grateful :D

[@jjp816]

So can someone simplify this for me 😃👍🏽

[@immasoxfanbaby]

200 million people or more in America ok

[@harlanerskine5097]

monkë

[@JJaani]

Its interesting how we consider incas and mayas as highly advanced and great civilizations while they offered child and women sacrifices, it was part of their culture/religion. This happened for centuries...

[@khanacademy]

Many ancient civilizations had practices that we would find abhorrent today like slavery, human sacrifice and explicitly trying to eliminate neighboring groups (genocide). For example, the ancient Romans used to set early Christians on fire and make captured people duel to the death as entertainment. They would also enslave people by the millions.

[@wtfboom4585]

Alphonso per capita, at the time, in my country (England) more than twice as many people were executed publicly as were sacrificed in the Inka empire, going by the estimations of Cortes. Were public executions based on religion not a form of religious sacrifice? Cultures are often more alike than we admit

[@professorm4171]

Burning 'witches' at the stake, anybody? That was only 300 years ago.

[@makehumanitygreatagain8128]

Are you implying that we don't do those things today? Before you answer, let me tell you that we do. You're welcome. #freekanye

[@alexluna6745]

i think its more from the standpoint of goverment,complex bulding structures ,agriculture,writing and systems of storing information and a rich culture less than the ethics of their religion. As some were very brutal in regards to human sacrifice.

[@lennykoss8777]

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[@koolaid6642]

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[@YashiTheNarrowGaugeEngine]

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[@losangeleslakers1650]

This timeline is completely false.

[@ladym2668]

This pg is not worthy of the name Khan. Yt Europeans are only regurgitating the same lies!

[@ubuntuiqinisoofuna7852]

What do you mean? Expound upon your thoughts.

[@wbx9126]

Make America great again