South america

10 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it.

1. The hidden civilizations lost to the shadow of the Inca EmpireArchaeologist Dr. Jago Cooper explores the independent histories of South America's forgotten cultures. This episode reveals how millennia of development were interrupted by Spani…
2. The First Americans may have originated as a single communityNew archaeological evidence suggests that the first people of the Americas didn't arrive in isolated groups. Instead, they may have developed a shared culture in Alaska before spr…
3. Beyond the Icons: Navigating South America's Biodiversity and Cultural TensionsThis documentary explores the profound duality of South America, balancing its breathtaking natural wonders with the complex modern challenges of conservation and urbanization.
4. The only colony to become the seat of its mother countryWhen Napoleon's armies invaded Portugal in 1807, the Portuguese royal family fled across the Atlantic. This unprecedented move transformed Brazil from a mere colonial possession i…
5. The Children of the Sun built a world-spanning Andean empireImagine an empire so vast it spanned from Quito to Santiago, governed by 40,000 people over 10 million subjects. The Inca didn't just survive the harsh Andes; they mastered them w…
6. South America was forged by three massive continental breakupsThe continent of South America is a land of geographic extremes, from the world's longest mountain range to its largest rainforest. This diversity isn't accidental; it is the resu…
7. The single room where a continent's unity fell apartIn 1822, the fate of a united Latin America rested on a single disagreement. This animated documentary explores the specific moment a grand dream of continental unity collapsed in…
8. A rare 1936 travelogue captures daily life and transit across South AmericaThis unedited travelogue offers a raw, observational glimpse into South American life in 1936. Through the lens of Arthur and Kate Tode, the footage documents everything from moun…
9. Gran Colombia: How a Short-Lived South American Power Fractured in Just Twelve YearsGran Colombia was a significant South American nation that existed for only twelve years before splitting into Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. This documentary explores the reas…
10. The Inca ran an empire without writing, using knotted strings.The Inca kept census records, tax accounts and calendars on quipus: bundles of coloured cords tied with knots. Most encode numbers in a base-10 system, with zero shown by an empty…

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