Empire Builders Pacific

Explore how the Polynesians spread out across the Pacific and examine the cultures they took with them constructing elaborate temples to their beliefs in places like Easter Island Also take a look at the warrior tribes of the Mori who voyaged to New Zealand from Eastern Polynesia in the 14th century finding a place uninhabited by humans

Take a look at the history of European colonization of the Pacific The Spaniards were the first to explore the region following the establishment of the Galleon route between the Philippines and Acapulco in Mexico in the 16th and 17th centuries In the 20th century the Pacific became the battleground for war between new superpowers Japan and America