New Zealand history
Polynesians started to come around the 1300’s to today. The 1800’s were important because Maori and European migrants had their first major interaction with each other. People change when they come to New Zealand.
Early polynesian navigators.
Kupe and his wife Kuramartini were the first people to discover New Zealand and they named it Aotearoa, which means land of the long white cloud. They came for more land and to explore so they find more things that they do not have in Polynesia. The Polynesians used the birds , moon , planets , current and the clouds to navigate.
Early European settlement.
In the 1850’s the first british permanent settlers arrived in New Zealand. They came for gold and good farming. It was a 6 week journey that was very hard and they had big families that made it easy to farm.
As the polynesians became maori they had to change to adapt to New Zealand. European language, work, and how they interacted with new people had to change. They had to change the way of farming because of the conditions.
