Each petal is a mile in length from the center. There’s also a two-mile long “stem” shaped peninsula that branches off from the bottom of the island that people fish off of. C. I picked this area because it’s so close to Greece making trade accessible. Winters are warm but rainy. Drought is very rare, so crops are almost always successful.
“In any event it seems clear that the Yayoi people are the descendents of the vast majority of present-day Japanese. At first the Yayoi lived primarily on the southern island of Kyushu, but eventually they moved northward onto the main island of Honshu, conquering, assimilating, or driving out the previous inhabitants of the area, some of whose descendants , known as the Ainu.” (Duiker, 2007) “A 600 year old DNA correlation with modern Ainu and mummified Jomon confirm this. The conventional dual-structure model has long argued that modern Ainu are direct descendants of a single, Pleistocene human lineage from Southeast Asia, namely the Jomon people.” “In contrast, recent evidence from archaeological, anthropological and genetic
CANOE CULTURE Pacific Islands is the richest and most diverse cultures across the world. The discovery and growth of the Pacific could not have been possible if it had not been for a mode of transportation to make the brave journey across unknown seas, our ancestors required the best their hands could create with the abundance of natural resources available to them-igniting the canoe culture that changed and charted the course of history that is now our as Pacific Islanders. The origin of canoes have often been one of conflict on where it first originated be it Melanesia, Micronesia or Polynesia, one truth remains that the culture of canoes had a major role in discovery of new land. I was “…a means of trade of goods. Interlinking of islands within one pacific nation and between different Pacific Islands.” (Hornell, 1975).
Morgan Dolan 9/23/13 “A Polynesian Creation Myth” There are many versions of “A Polynesian Creation Myth” due to the fact that many people were migrating from one island to another at around the same time (Sources, 69). The societies were, however, fairly connected because of the trading of goods and the general migration of people (Patterns, 112). “Yet these myths are never finished; each island had their own versions of them, and as people migrated between islands, and continued to trade with one another, the versions were shared, passed back and forth, altered in subtle ways by time and experience” (Sources, 69). There were not many cities in Oceania, which meant that there was a lack of written evidence. This lack of written evidence in Oceanic culture is much like that of the civilizations in Chapter 2 of Patterns.
There have been many different theories when discussing initial settlements in New Zealand. Presently, some of the most accurate theories are the Maori oral history describing the arrival of the ancestors from Hawaiki in large canoes. Hawaiki is a mythical homeland in the tropical Polynesia believed to be where the Maoris originally came from. (Condliffe & Airey p.10) This is an ancient myth believed by the Maoris but when it comes down to cold hard facts, there is actually no credible evidence that exists of human settlement in New Zealand prior to the Polynesian voyagers. (Condliffe & Airey p.12) The most
In this movie, the primary sources used were the accounts of scientist Rogier Verbeek, who described the progress of the Krakatoa and the eruption in detailed. The accounts used also included those of Johanna Beyerinck, A Dutchman’s wife who was the leader of Ketimbang District in South Sumatra, and also of Captain Johan Linderman, a ship captain who have more than 100 passengers in the ship trapped at sea when the volcano eruption was at its highest. I think that the movie may supports what other sources conclude about Indonesia at the time because all movies tried to make it as historically accurate as possible. I would not say that it is a reliable source though because they could make a mistake and have some things chronologically off. The equipment and objects in the movie seemed like they belong in that time.
The immense growth of the sport throughout the world has led to development and change of facilities that cater for swimming. Races in the early Olympics were held in duck ponds, and now millions of dollars are invested by governments in order to cater for competitive swimmers and massive swimming pools with large audience and seating present. Swimming was an essential part of Australian life before the British settled there. The native Aboriginals had been swimming in Australia for thousands of years and British explorers were overwhelmed by the Australian native ability at swimming. Since Australians ancestral people grew up with a great value for swimming, this gratitude was passed down through generations and has always remained important.
Whakapapa in the Maori world is linked to genealogies of “rituals and stories” (Smith, 2011, p. 3). Allows people to locate themselves in the world both figuratively to their ancestors, by recalling the events that happened in the passed. It is displayed when Maori induce their genealogy. This is shown in the waka’s as Smith (2011) pointed out. In the Maori world waka are shown that they are extremely important, it identify that waka creates whakapapa.
He possessed all the qualifications requisite for his profession and great undertakings ..." - Lord Palliser, Cook's superior in the navy, http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/7557/ . Born on the 27th of October 1728 to a farmer of Scottish decent, Cook started early as a teenager, working as an apprentice to seafaring family. He shot into fame when he joined the Great Britain’s Royal Navy in 1755, in which he soon proved himself to be an expert navigator. In 1768 he was assigned to his first mission, which he was to undertake a scientific expedition to observe and document the planet Venus as it passed between the Earth and the Sun, in Tahiti. He arrived to Tahiti on the 11th of April 1769, seven weeks earlier than planned.
Circa 1,500 years ago, the Arawak people of South America began voyaging northward beside the many scattered islands located between South and North America, an area that is now referred to as the Caribbean. For a thousand years their population developed and the people lived in harmony. The people covered all the islands of the Caribbean, the major ones as they are, now known: Cuba, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola as well as all the smaller ones, the Bahamas, Bimini, Jamaica etc... Certain groups of island people branded themselves as Carib, Ciboney, Arawak, but most islands were primarily inhabited by people who called themselves Tainos, which stood for "the good people" in their language. The different groups intermarried extensively to strengthen bonds amongst themselves. The Mayans lived on the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico; and their classical period was from 200 - 900 C.E.