Nan Madol: Venice of the Pacific
The Ancients
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What Happens to Nan Madall?
Oral histories talk about the tyrancy of the sadolors. These were the paramount chiefs of this dynasty that occupied nan madall. So how did it end? What happened? Did people disappear? Rit namidall comes to an end. Construction seems to stop some time in the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth century. That suggests that all those people that occupied and supported the administration of this capital place left, disappeared. Somehow they went missing. It begs the question, what happens to nan madol?
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