The first centralized government of Pohnpei island, whose rulers built the megalithic stone-island city of Nan Madol and exercised increasingly absolute authority before being overthrown by the semi-mythical warrior Isokelekel around 1628.
Overthrown c. 1628 CE by the semi-mythical warrior Isokelekel, who invaded Pohnpei and replaced Saudeleur centralised rule with the decentralised nahnmwarki chiefdom system that persists today.
Broad survey of Nan Madol and the Saudeleur dynasty for a general audience; covers the archaeology and oral traditions.
Polity-specific: uses Pohnpeian oral tradition to relate the Saudeleur era and the building of Nan Madol, directly covering this dynasty's rise and its overthrow.
The archaeological story of the pre-contact Pacific this society belongs to.