History WesternAnimation / AThousandAndOneAmericas

Chris is a cheerful 10-year old kid who lives with his family and his yellow pet dog (Lon). One day, while roaming within the attic of his house to find some bibliographical information for a homework about the Incan civilization, he discovers a huge book written by his late grandfather. It records his research on all pre-Columbian civilizations. From this point, and in each episode, whenever he and his brother Fito have doubts or questions regarding the history of the Americas, they climb upstairs and begin reading their grandfather's book to search the answers they want; Chris eventually falls asleep and ends up dreaming of the topic he was reading about. In these oneiric adventures, he and Lon meet new friends and learn more about their cultures, but also meet unexpected enemies and face imminent dangers.

* SurprisinglyHappyEnding: In nearly all episodes, Chris' dreams with pre-Columbian civilizations end badly, either because he's unable to escape the criminal, wild animal or natural danger he's facing, or because he's witnessing a horrific event and he feels unable to do something about it; and when it seems like doom will befall him, Chris wakes up from the dream. However, there are episodes whose oneiric stories end well:

Chris is a cheerful 10-year old kid who lives with his family and his yellow pet dog (Lon). One day, while roaming within the attic of his house to find some bibliographical information for a homework about the Incan civilization, he discovers a huge book written by his late grandfather. It records his research on all pre-Columbian civilizations. From this point, and in each episode, whenever he and his brother Fito have some doubts or questions regarding the history of the Americas, they climb upstairs and begin reading their grandfather's book to search the answers they want; Chris eventually falls asleep and ends up dreaming of the topic he was reading about. And in these oneiric adventures, he and Lon will meet new friends and learn more about their cultures, but also meet unexpected enemies and face imminent dangers.

* {{Irony}}: In the first episode, when Chris presents himself to an Incan little girl (Alicora), she asks him about the meaning of his name, and Chris says he has no idea, which surprises her as all names are meant to have a meaning or origin (she then tells him that hers, Alicora, means "good grass"). The name Chris is a diminutive form of Christopher, which in turn comes from the Greek name Cristophoros, which means "bearer of Christ". The religion of Christianity was brought to the Americas by the navigators led by '''Christopher''' Columbus (original name ''Cristoforo'' Colombo), which in turn would lead to the violent end of the dominion of Incans in the Andean regions of South America. Quite an intriguing outcome that contrasts the close friendship formed between the European Chris and the Incan Alicora, especially since Chris a crush at first sight on her.
* JavelinThrower: In the fifteenth episode, Native Americans are shown using javelins to hunt a herd of bisons. Knowing that it's difficult to deep-six a bison with one while it's running at great speeds, their plan is to lure them into a small ravine, and when one falls down into it they do throw a javelin at it in order to deliver the final blow.

* FishOutOfTemporalWater: In many episodes, Chris doesn't realize at first that he's not in the present time since he's currently dreaming of an era that precedes the arrival of Christopher Columbus, which leads to him making assumptions that are correct for his era but not for the one he's dreaming of, and occasionally mentions inventions that didn't exist yet (thus forcing him to make hasty explanations or justifications about them) . For example, in the first episode, Chris is surprised to learn that nobody at Alicora's town travels in vehicles, and more so when he realizes she doesn't even know what wheels are (he's unaware that he's dreaming of a pre-Columbian civilization, pre-1492, where the inventions in question were unheard of). In a later episode, this dissonance actually gets him into trouble because he's not supposed to know (much less publicly mention) the then-secret composition of bronze.

* NotRareOverThere: In the twentieth and twenty-first episodes, it is shown that some pre-Columbian civilizations used gold as a normal metal, and while it ''was'' deemed valuable back then it just didn't have the connotation of being a rare luxury due to how abundant it was. Conversely, in other episodes we see civilizations that didn't know about gold, but considered the likes of ''bronze'' the ultimate rarity, to the point that even the making of the metal was a treasured secret .

** Subverted with the twenty-fourth episode. Chris wakes up shortly after being told that he must not touch the serpent head statues near the entrance of the temple built in honor to Quetzalcoatl, which means he spares himself the potential danger that would ensue if he did so. But shortly afterwards, we see ''Lon'' having a bad dream (which the episode reveals it's related to the giant FeatheredSerpent defeated by Ce Acatl), so it's likely either he or Chris ''did'' foolishly touch the statue(s) in said dream and made the monster appear once again. Chris' brother Fito prepares a cruel prank by putting a snake-shaped sock on the dog's tail, which gives him a good scare because it makes him believe the giant serpent is attacking him in the real world. Fito is scolded by Chris because of this.

* {{Courier}}: In the eleventh episode, as Chris and Lon walk through a paved road in the middle of the Sechura Desert in Peru, they meet a Chasqui, a messenger from the Incan civilization to whom an important information was entrusted in order to send it to a destination (in this case, the city of Moche). This one in particular got his leg injured due to an ongoing battle between factions, but he tells Chris that he must fight his way to send the message no matter what, since that's what Chasquis were trained for. Chris manages to convince him to take his place to deliver the message so the man can rest and heal his wounds.

* CrossingTheDesert: In the eleventh episode, Chris and Lon traverse the Sechura Desert to deliver a message to a decoder in the city of Moche. They do travel across a man-made road that takes them to the city, so at least they won't get lost. However, later in the episode, they and a friendly Incan who is giving them a tour do traverse into the desert off-road so they can see some harvest fields, and on the way back during the sunset they're caught by a severe sandstorm. To make matters worse, a group of enemy soldiers they were alerted about early on end up intercepting them; while Lon and the Incan put a fight, Chris is easily outmatched, leading him to wake up (it is AllJustADream).

* DistressedDude: At the beginning of the nineteenth episode, Fito is swimming in a pool until he approaches a deep area and begins dorwning, at which point Monica gets in to save him. Fito later tells Chris he feels disgraced over being saved by a girl.

* LoveAtFirstSight: Chris often falls in love with the girls he meets in his dreams as soon as he sees them: Alicora in the first episode, Papalotl in the fifth, and Tiau in the eighth. Notably, with Papalotl the crush is mutual. In the real world, however, he already has a LoveInterest (his classmate Monica, who's introduced in the twelfth episode).

* ScaryStingingSwarm: During the introduction of the local fauna of the Mayans' geography in the sixth episode, a jaguar that is chasing a tapir passes by a honeyhive densely populated by bees, which then proceed to chase ''it''. Even the jaguar knows how dangerous they can be and is terrified, so it tries to flee from them while the queen bee is ordering a direct attack at it (and the bees succeed). Amusingly, the tapir is unable to believe how lucky it is.