Rapa Nui significant events

By 23emartin
  • Period: 700 to 800

    Settlement of Rapa Nui

    First arrived on Rapa Nui
  • Period: 1400 to

    The statues called Moai began

    After people passed away from there being not many crops the started the Moai to celebrate the people who have passed

  • Deforestation happened at Rapa Nui

    As the population grew the had to chop more trees

  • First Europeans to land on Rapa Nui to have contact

    The first European to land on Rapa Nui was the Dutch it was Jacob Roggeveen
  • Period: to

    Rapa Nui slaved

    The people of Rapa Nui where slaves and they got sent away. A lot of them got smallpox. After only 111 people were left on Rapa Nui.

  • Abandonment of Culture

    The Catholic heard about Rapa Nui and show them about their religion. The Rapa people abounded their culture but there was never slavery again.