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Period: Mar 10, 952 to Mar 10, 1150
Merge of Mao-hunthers with other Polynesians
The first population of NZ was fisherman and hunting people(East Polynesian ancestry),ago perhaps 1000 years before Europeans arrived.
Then, the Moa-hunters was arrive for form the Maoris people.
The NZ was called "Aotearoa",usually transladed as "land of the long white cloud". -
Abel Tasman
Abel Tasman is a Dutch navigator that made the first record European sighting of NZ and sketched sections of the two main island' west coasts. -
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The Hunt
The lumbering, the seal hunting, and the whaling attracted a few European settlers to NZ. -
James Cook
He explored the whole island and made the map detailing. -
Maori land wars
Due to expanding European settlement, he create the conflict with Maori.
There were a lot of dead from desease and warfare, much of it intertribal. -
Victory Maori
The Maori won the right to a certain number of reserved seats in Parliament. During this period, the livestock industry began to expand,and the foundations of NZ's modern economy took shape. -
Permission for women to vote.
Women received the right to vote in national elections. -
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Periods of Labour government.
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Periods of Labour government
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ANZUS
The United States(and Australia) suspended its ANZUS security obligations to NZ. -
MMP
New Zealand inaugurated a mixed-member proportional(MMP) system to elect its Parliament. The system was designed to increase representation of smaller parties in Parliament and appears to have done so in the MMP elections to date.
