Timeline Practice - Polynesian Expansion

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE

    First travellers begin to move from Asia through the islands

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    The lapita people spread across Polynesia

  • Period: 1000 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Samoa has settled

  • Period: 300 to 500

    Hawaiian islands settled

  • Period: 700 to 700

    Polynesians settles Rapa Nui (Easter Islands)

  • Period: 1000 to 1000

    Polynesians arrived at Aetearoa