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Every landmass has been discovered. Every civilization has been reached. All the best sea routes have already been mapped, and the roads have all been laid.\n\n![Graph](image://23ef07f9-e707-41e7-95f5-cf684c2ca18d \"The whole world. Image: Harrison Schmitt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nIt wasn’t always that way. Thousands of years ago, the world was a place of vast, unknowable mystery. People rarely knew what lay on the other side of a mountain, let alone what lay on the other side of the planet.\n\nThen came the **first explorers**: brilliant pioneers who dared to enter the unknown. They saw things that no one else had seen. They made journeys that no one else had made.\n\nBy the end of this pathway, you’ll know their story: the pioneers who unlocked the world.\n","677fcdd0-21b5-44a1-be94-a5cc782678ba",{"id":52,"data":53,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":57},"aa90765e-1296-4c3e-b03f-ded924e5e2ab",{"type":20,"title":54,"markdownContent":55,"audioMediaId":56},"The Phoenicians page 2","\nWhen people think about the ancient world, they often picture the Greeks or Romans. But before these famous civilizations came a group of explorers: **the Phoenicians**.\n\n![Graph](image://638c6518-5145-45b6-a5cc-b8264f8b1c08 \"Statue depicting Phoenicians. Image: John Gardner Wilkinson, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThe Phoenicians originated along the **Levant coast** – a region that runs from modern-day Lebanon all the way south to Israel. The Levant is a green, fertile region with rolling hills and forests of sweet-smelling cedars.\n\n![Graph](image://728c15fc-5e3c-446c-9c50-007ad18b239e \"The Levant coast. Image: Kordas, based on Alvaro's work, CC BY 3.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThe Phoenician people felled these cedars, and turned the wood into ships. They sent these ships on exploratory journeys – inquisitive hands extending out through the **Mediterranean Sea**.\n\nWherever the Phoenicians sent their ships, they encountered civilizations. They met people in North Africa. They met people in Greece. They met people in Sicily and Crete. With every single ocean voyage, Phoenician horizons expanded.\n","90f8ceff-6cd2-41de-936a-ee221a00a134",[58],{"id":59,"data":60,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"a28eafea-bf22-4f9f-9220-b2f3c6b04166",{"type":61,"reviewType":25,"spacingBehaviour":20,"binaryQuestion":62,"binaryCorrect":64,"binaryIncorrect":66},11,[63],"Which of these may have helped Phoenician explorers?",[65],"The Levant was right on the coast",[67],"The Levant was right on a river delta",{"id":69,"data":70,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":74},"37b79785-43fa-4bea-9ff6-b9219999c32f",{"type":20,"title":71,"markdownContent":72,"audioMediaId":73},"The Phoenicians page 3","\nThe Phoenicians weren’t just daring explorers. They were also innovative ship-builders. Often, these things go hand in hand – without powerful ships, Phoenician explorers couldn’t have traveled far.\n\nTheir ships were powered by oars as opposed to sails: dozens of rowers groaning and sweating as they propelled the vessel forward. But there’s a problem with oars: you can only fit so many of them in a line.\n\nThat’s why the Phoenicians developed the **bireme**: a ship with two lines of oars stacked on top of each other, with enough space for twice as many rowers. You can see an example of a bireme ship in the diagram down below.\n\n![Graph](image://76eeb32e-cffa-4531-9805-38727c2cda19 \"Bireme with two lines of oars (marked orange and purple, or 1 and 2). Image: Darton & Harvey [publishers]; Newton [engraver], Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThis double-decker approach to oars was a major innovation: twice as many more oars in the water meant twice as much rowing power. This allowed Phoenician explorers to travel far and wide.\n","35e8363e-eae8-47de-9835-714ced44db5f",[75,95],{"id":76,"data":77,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"be610787-a3d9-4caf-9b78-0043dcf3b134",{"type":61,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"collapsingSiblings":78,"multiChoiceQuestion":82,"multiChoiceCorrect":84,"multiChoiceIncorrect":86,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":90,"matchPairsPairs":92},[79,80,81],"39184a8a-088d-4470-9f6d-6deca9721d7e","db59b9ba-6109-4482-8360-550c49c7ef3d","d0876d4b-7083-4d46-9022-edd32e7b1189",[83],"Which of the below describes Phoenician ships?",[85],"Made from cedar wood, powered by oars",[87,88,89],"Dual hulls","Large cargo ships used for transporting slaves","Used to chain captives in pairs",[91],"Match the pairs below:",[93],{"left":94,"right":85,"direction":19},"Phoenician ships",{"id":96,"data":97,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"e3d413a4-d483-45f5-8b9d-78c86219b307",{"type":61,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"collapsingSiblings":98,"multiChoiceQuestion":102,"multiChoiceCorrect":104,"multiChoiceIncorrect":106,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":110,"matchPairsPairs":111},[99,100,101],"1955afa5-75c3-4b6f-93de-21cb8c67ab4a","68b2dcaf-8969-493f-871e-657c6549376f","753f4a6f-24cd-4e1e-b5f2-31016b1c03e4",[103],"Which of the below applies to a Bireme?",[105],"Ship with two lines of oars",[107,108,109],"Designed by Polynesians","Large square sails","Triangular sails",[91],[112],{"left":113,"right":105,"direction":19},"Bireme",{"id":115,"data":116,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":120},"982d91ed-b60f-4145-8436-646e641c3fae",{"type":20,"title":117,"markdownContent":118,"audioMediaId":119},"The Phoenicians page 4","\nWith their innovative biremes, the Phoenicians didn’t confine themselves to the Mediterranean. They also surged into the Atlantic Ocean, then traveled north until they reached the **British Isles**. At the same time, they sent explorers south, down into the shallow **Red Sea**.\n\nThe spread of the Phoenicians was unlike anything else the world had seen before. From the pebble beaches at the south of Britain, to the golden sands along the coast of the Red Sea, Phoenician biremes could be spotted riding the powerful, foam-flecked waves.\n\n![Graph](image://b2898c8a-3b42-4c8a-b072-2c58c5adb35e \"Map of Phoenician exploration. Image: User:Rodrigo (es), User:Reedside (en), CC BY-SA 3.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThey even established colonies. An important moment in Phoenician history was the foundation of the colony of **Carthage** in North Africa. It was built on a wide, rocky peninsula with ocean on either side.\n\nThe date of this event is disputed, but it probably happened in 814 BCE. Carthage became a staging post for expeditions further west. It even had a large, fortified harbor, which helped to protect Phoenician ships from threats like pirates and storms.\n","5c299696-ff0e-420e-be74-e0acc1a916d8",[121,132],{"id":122,"data":123,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"055d06b8-8470-4027-8bce-a20a4a021b8a",{"type":61,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"multiChoiceQuestion":124,"multiChoiceCorrect":126,"multiChoiceIncorrect":130,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[125],"Which of these did the Phoenicians visit?",[127,128,129],"British Isles","Red Sea","North Africa:multi",[131],"Ghana",{"id":133,"data":134,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"92f19aef-e444-42d6-a983-91652cccb54f",{"type":61,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"multiChoiceQuestion":135,"multiChoiceCorrect":137,"multiChoiceIncorrect":139,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[136],"Where did the Phoenicians build the colony of Carthage?",[138],"North Africa",[127,128,131],{"id":141,"data":142,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":146},"b0b0f1cd-88d7-4a2d-b317-0b56047b69bb",{"type":20,"title":143,"markdownContent":144,"audioMediaId":145},"The Phoenicians page 5","\nThe Phoenicians didn’t just explore the world. They were also **resourceful merchants** – and wherever they encountered foreign peoples, they made an effort to trade.\n\nPhoenician textiles were especially popular with foreigners. They were often dyed with a distinctive color called **Tyrian purple**, which the Phoenicians sourced from the mucus of a local snail. Foreign peoples had never seen this vibrant color before.\n\n![Graph](image://a3e00a30-1583-4ec1-9e76-daeeecb4b4f5 \"Tyrian purple. Image: Tyrargaman, CC BY-SA 4.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nTrade was another important reason why **Carthage** was such a vital colony. At the crossroads of two continents – Europe and Africa – the city became a major hub for international commerce.\n\nEventually, the Phoenician civilization collapsed, when the Levant was seized by Assyrians in approximately 738 BCE. Later, Carthage was conquered by the Romans in 146 BCE.\n\n![Graph](image://dcb01229-3902-4971-bd15-1f55c536d23f \"Phoenician ruins. Image: Touzrimounir, CC BY-SA 4.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nBut the Phoenicians left more than ruins behind. Their civilization had set a precedent for **long distance travel and trade**. In later centuries, other civilizations would take on the mantle, and continue to explore the world.\n","500a2d0d-ed0b-4c4b-b554-0538ee961f9b",[147,154,163],{"id":148,"data":149,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"cd79bf9c-478d-489d-b1ee-85173bcf7b66",{"type":61,"reviewType":20,"spacingBehaviour":20,"activeRecallQuestion":150,"activeRecallAnswers":152},[151],"What was Tyrian purple made from?",[153],"The mucus of a snail",{"id":155,"data":156,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"d3a05c2a-6997-4d97-b286-fb7f7eda289c",{"type":61,"reviewType":25,"spacingBehaviour":20,"binaryQuestion":157,"binaryCorrect":159,"binaryIncorrect":161},[158],"Which of these more accurately describes Phoenician motivations for exploration?",[160],"They wanted to set up trade routes",[162],"They wanted more land for settlement",{"id":164,"data":165,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"004e8d1c-eba2-4886-a07e-819882824280",{"type":61,"reviewType":166,"spacingBehaviour":20,"matchPairsQuestion":167,"matchPairsPairs":169,"matchPairsShowExamples":6},6,[168],"Match each word to a definition.",[170,172,175,178],{"left":113,"right":171,"direction":19},"Phoenician invention",{"left":173,"right":174,"direction":19},"Carthage","Phoenician colony",{"left":176,"right":177,"direction":19},"Assyria","Phoenician enemy",{"left":179,"right":180,"direction":19},"Levant","Phoenician home",{"id":182,"data":183,"type":25,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"summaryPage":185,"introPage":194,"pages":201},"68f0b2eb-baaa-4705-ac48-91d6ec87c684",{"type":25,"title":184},"The Polynesians",{"id":186,"data":187,"type":19,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20},"7296fc23-ff00-489f-92a3-98139b9192a3",{"type":19,"title":188,"summary":189},"The Polynesians summary",[190,191,192,193],"Polynesians explored the Pacific Ocean between 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE.","They traveled to New Zealand, Hawaii, and Easter Island.","Polynesians used crab-claw sails and catamarans for exploration.","They introduced crops and animals to the islands they settled.",{"id":195,"data":196,"type":39,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20},"ec8884f9-b09d-4a48-8586-325b66c28466",{"type":39,"title":197,"intro":198},"The Polynesians intro",[199,200],"What drove the Polynesians to explore and settle on distant islands?","How did the innovations of the crab-claw sail and catamaran contribute to the Polynesians' exploration success?",[202,220,234,248,266],{"id":203,"data":204,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":208},"117cf8d5-a921-4b57-8634-c1335d232ecf",{"type":20,"title":205,"markdownContent":206,"audioMediaId":207},"The Polynesians page 1","The Phoenicians weren't the only explorers of the ancient world. On the other side of the planet – in the Pacific Ocean – another seafaring civilization spread across the seas.\n\nThe **Polynesians** originated in Southeast Asia. Nobody knows quite when it happened, but at some point between 3000 BCE and 1000 BCE, they started to send exploratory boats out across the Pacific.\n\n![Graph](image://3745e9ba-9273-4d08-b64f-00008166b9e7 \"Two Polynesians. Image: S. Springsgoth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nWherever they went, they found islands: white sands, blue seas, palm trees swaying in the wind. On these islands, they built settlements, one by one. Then they continued to sail outwards.\n\nThe Polynesians explored a massive area – significantly more than the Phoenicians. Over hundreds of years, they traveled as far as **New Zealand**, **Hawaii** and **Easter Island** (as you can see on the map below).\n\n![Graph](image://9c7540f9-35bb-462f-94d5-158959b94fde \"Map of Polynesian exploration. Image: David Eccles (Gringer (talk)), CC BY 4.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nMost of these places had never been visited by human beings before. Not until the Polynesians showed up there, and started to lay down homes.\n","e6941c93-70f5-4a53-b12c-7f6b90b649d9",[209],{"id":210,"data":211,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"581b6135-f46e-4a6a-aff3-27dbfa146199",{"type":61,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"multiChoiceQuestion":212,"multiChoiceCorrect":214,"multiChoiceIncorrect":218,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6},[213],"Which of these did the Polynesians visit?",[215,216,217],"New Zealand","Hawaii","Easter Island:multi",[219],"Tasmania",{"id":221,"data":222,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":226},"98348146-349f-4693-b89e-839bc146976a",{"type":20,"title":223,"markdownContent":224,"audioMediaId":225},"The Polynesians page 2","\nPolynesian exploration (unlike the Phoenicians) wasn’t driven by a desire to trade. Instead, they wanted **more living space** – they explored whenever they seemed to be running out of land.\n\nImagine building a village on a Pacific island. The sun is shining, the trees are green, you feed on fish and fruit. But the island is small, and as your village grows, the resources start to stretch thin.\n\n![Graph](image://e4bd0c97-5a25-4f6d-9478-fc084c285dbd \"Polynesian village. Image: William Allan Bollard (1869-1941), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThat’s when the Polynesians sent out ships. They would explore until they found another island – then set up a brand new village there, transporting some of the original villagers over.\n\nThat’s what drove them to New Zealand. That’s what drove them to Hawaii and Easter Island. The desire for space. The desire for resources. They pushed outwards as their population grew.\n","1ed7c368-a8b2-430e-8b71-4ee9e2bd271c",[227],{"id":228,"data":229,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"0fa2a0ac-479e-4718-b25b-8fbe6c7f5d3a",{"type":61,"reviewType":25,"spacingBehaviour":20,"binaryQuestion":230,"binaryCorrect":232,"binaryIncorrect":233},[231],"Which of these more accurately describes Polynesian motivations for exploration?",[162],[160],{"id":235,"data":236,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":240},"ae3ad247-1ee4-47e2-b90b-dd0818e846f7",{"type":20,"title":237,"markdownContent":238,"audioMediaId":239},"The Polynesians page 3","\nJust like the Phoenicians, the Polynesians were innovative shipbuilders. Otherwise, they would never have been able to explore so far.\n\nWhere the Phoenicians innovated with double-oared biremes, the Polynesians took a different approach: they invented the **crab-claw sail**.\n\n![Graph](image://0e526266-1eb1-47a9-a911-c419b66d1653 \"Crab-claw sail. Image: John Webber (1751-1793). From: Cook, J. A voyage to the Pacific Ocean ...(London, Strahan, 1784). Atlas. Plate 61, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThe innovative shape of a crab-claw sail allowed it to catch wind from a **range of different angles**. This was very different to a traditional square sail, which could only catch wind from behind.\n\nThis difference was pretty important. A square-sailed ship could only travel in the rough direction of the wind. If you wanted to travel east, but the wind was blowing south… there was nothing much you could do.\n\nBut a crab-claw sail could harness a gust of south-blowing wind, and use it to propel a boat eastward. This allowed the Polynesians to travel where they wanted, instead of constantly relying on the whims of changing winds.\n\n![Graph](image://cc823e94-61f0-47b1-9042-f439ccbe2dd6 \"Crab-claw sail (right) versus square sail (left). Image: Bcebul, KDS4444, self, CC BY-SA 3.0 \u003Chttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n","0b2405ea-f653-4a54-8245-9cf17abe5557",[241],{"id":242,"data":243,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},"af09dcce-f1b9-41b2-a3a4-b20a2815e926",{"type":61,"reviewType":20,"spacingBehaviour":20,"activeRecallQuestion":244,"activeRecallAnswers":246},[245],"What made crab-claw sails so innovative?",[247],"They caught wind from a range of different angles, making them more versatile",{"id":249,"data":250,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":254},"817280bc-cd6f-4cb2-acbe-779a72fac032",{"type":20,"title":251,"markdownContent":252,"audioMediaId":253},"The Polynesians page 4","\nCrab-claw sails weren’t the only Polynesian innovation. They also pioneered **catamarans**: a specialized ship with two separate hulls, as opposed to the traditional one.\n\n![Graph](image://d7041edc-96b1-4e30-8599-34b24052b193 \"Model-sized catamaran. Image: Szilas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nThe double hull of a catamaran created a wider base on the water. This helped to counter the rolling and tipping of a turbulent ocean. It’s like standing on two legs instead of standing on one – it feels a lot more stable.\n\nThe Polynesians would put a platform between the hulls, as you can see in the image above. This platform could be used to carry more cargo and passengers. This made it easier to transport supplies to distant islands, and set up new villages when they got there.\n\nIn other words: the double hull of the catamaran was a pretty major deal. Theses boats were more stable, and could carry more supplies – perfect for exploration.\n","236329c9-3440-4549-a1f6-c0370d24d5ef",[255],{"id":79,"data":256,"type":61,"version":20,"maxContentLevel":19},{"type":61,"reviewType":19,"spacingBehaviour":20,"collapsingSiblings":257,"multiChoiceQuestion":258,"multiChoiceCorrect":260,"multiChoiceIncorrect":261,"multiChoiceMultiSelect":6,"multiChoiceRevealAnswerOption":6,"matchPairsQuestion":262,"matchPairsPairs":263},[76,80,81],[259],"Which of these describes catamarans?",[87],[85,88,89],[91],[264],{"left":265,"right":87,"direction":19},"Catamarans",{"id":267,"data":268,"type":20,"maxContentLevel":19,"version":20,"reviews":272},"020fa752-313d-4723-9da4-625eb111269a",{"type":20,"title":269,"markdownContent":270,"audioMediaId":271},"The Polynesians page 5","\nStanding tall on the backs of their catamarans, tugged forward by crab-claw sails, the Polynesians spread far and wide. They ended up with countless villages, many of them thousands of kilometers apart.\n\nWherever they went, they brought a spirit of exploration – and they brought other things with them too. They introduced crops like **taro**, and domesticated animals like **chickens** and **pigs**, to islands throughout the Pacific.\n\n![Graph](image://329ec7eb-ee11-4aeb-8869-d74087dbaae2 \"Taro, chicken, pig. Images: Kostka Martin, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Bernard Spragg. NZ from Christchurch, New Zealand, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; Johan Spaedtke, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nOver time, the far-flung Polynesian settlements developed local traditions. On Easter Island, for example, they built the famous **Moai heads**: giant statues that can still be visited today.\n\n![Graph](image://63a55779-04f0-4028-939c-619e0ec6b376 \"Moai heads. Image: Aurbina, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons\")\n\nIn some ways, the Moai are a symbol of ancient exploration. 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