When was New Zealand first settled?
- Description:
- In 2570 BCE the great pyramid of Giza in Egypt was completed. But the remote islands of New Zealand lay empty of human history. From around 1000 BCE the Lapita people spread into West Polynesia. In Europe, Roman civilisation rose and fell. By 700 CE the Arab empire was expanding, and in 1066 the ...
- Location:
- Polynesia
- Format:
- Collection
- Collections:
- Te Ara - The Encyclopedia of New Zealand
- Contributors:
- Geoff Irwin and Carl Walrond
- Publisher:
- Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu Taonga
- Content partner:
- Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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