Timeline practice- Polynesian expansion- Scarlett Torkington

By Torkington
  • 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: 300 to 500

    Samoa is settled

  • Period: 300 to 500

    Hawiian islands settled

  • 700

    Polynesians settle Rapa Nui (Easter Islands

  • 1000

    Polynesians arrive at Aotearoa (New Zealand)