Marked Mu’a, Tongatapu

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Tuʻi Tonga

From Tongatapu, a line of sacred kings, the Tuʻi Tonga, held power and prestige across the western Pacific, with ties to Samoa, Fiji and beyond, carried by great voyaging canoes.

Place
Mu’a, Tongatapu · Lapaha · Ha’amonga ’a MauiOceania
Laid out as
A dynastyA line of rulers, one after another, and what each reign changed.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IAho’eitu, the first Tu’i Tonga
  2. IIThe royal tombs at Mu’a
  3. IIIThe Ha’amonga ’a Maui trilithon
  4. IVA sea of islands
  5. VThree lines of kings
  6. VIThe last Tu’i Tonga

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Aho’eitu (in tradition)
  • Tu’itātui
  • George Tupou I

Objects

  • The langi tombs
  • The Ha’amonga ’a Maui

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

AD 950 to 1865. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?