Continent 02
South
America
Rainforest · Mountains · Cities · Music · Food · Ancient worlds · Modern lives
Cross a continent shaped by enormous landscapes, living cultures, movement, creativity and stories stretching back thousands of years.
This is South America
Not one
story.
Twelve independent countries. Hundreds of languages and communities. Enormous differences in landscape, history, culture and identity. We are going to explore it in pieces — then put the picture back together.
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Amazon
One of the world's great ecological regions.
12
Independent countries
≈
Rivers connect worlds
Living
cultures
Ancient
+ modern
Religious Education / Belief & Worldviews
BeliefAcross SouthAmerica.
From sacred Andean landscapes to Afro-Brazilian traditions, discover how belief, identity and community shape life across South America.
Explore BeliefsMade • Played • Explored
South Americaat Fable.
A scrapbook of what we've been learning, cooking, creating, playing and exploring together at Fable.
Explore by country
Opening the scrapbook...
Your turn
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Been cooking, creating, playing, researching or exploring South America at Fable? Add it to our scrapbook.
Find your way
Continent
to region
to country.
Use the map to build your geography. We will explore the continent through four teaching regions, while every individual country remains part of the journey.
Brazil
One country. Huge landscapes, Portuguese language, enormous cultural influence and a story all of its own.
Andean
Travel along the Andes through ancient civilisations, high-altitude landscapes, living traditions and modern cities.
Northern
Follow the continent's northern edge through Caribbean connections, rainforest, rivers and remarkable cultural diversity.
Taste the continent
Culture
Kitchen.
Explore ingredients, recipes and food traditions from across South America.
Look closer
Culture
Gallery.
Art, objects, photographs and discoveries collected as we move across the continent.
Shared Culture Gallery plugs in here
Before · during · after
Follow
the story.
Thousands of years. Ancient societies, empires, colonisation, independence and modern change. Pick a moment here, then explore the full story.
c. 3000 BCE
Caral
Early monumental cities rise on Peru's Pacific coast.
1438
Inca expansion
Tawantinsuyu grows across much of the Andes.
1500s
Conquest
European colonisation transforms the continent.
1810–1826
Independence
Movements challenge colonial rule across South America.
Today
Living history
Past and present continue to shape identity and culture.
These are only five stops. Filter the full timeline by country and open each moment to discover the bigger story.
Explore the full timeline→Go deeper
Some stories
need more room.
Deep Dives give us space to investigate stories that cross borders, stretch across centuries or need more than a quick fact.
The Inca World
Explore an empire built across mountains — its roads, engineering, communities and legacy.
Amazon Lives
The Amazon is not simply a rainforest. Discover the people, environments and questions connected to it.
Student discoveries
Now it's
your turn.
Find something worth sharing — a useful website, video, article or resource that helps other learners explore South America.
Student Contribution
🌎 South America Discoveries
Found a useful website, video or resource? Share it for teacher review.