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2980 BCE
Trading time!!!!
Spices, Boats etc -
1480 BCE
Started to explore the Pacific Ocean
About 1480 BC. And also when the egyptians were building the pyraminds. -
1480 BCE
Started from South-East Asia
Left Indonesia probably because volcano. Volcano = crop failure. Crop failure = fighting over food. -
980 BCE
Fiji
Fiji was the first island the polynesians found -
970 BCE
Tonga
Discovered Tonga
Probably around 980 bc
Second island to be found -
820
Samoa
Third island to be discovered in the Pacific Ocean -
820
Hawaii
Found around the same time as Samoa -
870
Rarotonga
Fourth island found. Found around: 1150 -
920
Tahiti
Fourth island to be found -
1220
Rapa Nui/Easter Island
Seventh island to be found.
Easter island as the Moai statues -
1280
New Zealand
Kupe found some of the only land that hasn't been discovered -
Captain Cook comes to NZ
Captain come to NZ with the help of a navigator -
Captain Cook gets killed
Captain gets killed in Hawaii -
Whalers & Sealers
They were the first settlers in NZ. They wanted the blubber, whale oil and meat -
Early Settlers
Arrived arfter the whalers & sealers and made a settlement -
Treaty of Waitangi
This treaty wasn't signed by all the Maori chiefs.