Timeline practice - Polynesian expansion - Malee -

  • Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE

    First travellers begin to move from Asia through the Islands

  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE

    Lapita people spread across Polynesia

  • 1000 BCE

    Samoa is settled

  • Period: 300 to 497

    Hawaiian Islands settled

  • 699

    Polynesians settle Rapa Nui (Easter Islands)

  • 1000

    Polynesians arrive at Aotearoa (New Zealand)