Timeline practise-Polynesian expansion-Hayley By 24hhammerton Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE First Travellers begin to move from Asia through the Islands Period: 1500 BCE to 997 BCE The Lapita people spread across Polynesia 999 BCE Samoa is settled 697 BCE Polynesians settle Rapa Nui (Easter Islands) Period: 300 to 500 Hawaiian Islands settled 1000 Polynesians arrive Aotearoa (New Zealand)