Today we got given a work sheet and had to watch a video about the early encounters in Aoteaora. About what james cook had to do when he was looking for a new land then came across the maori people.
The first European explorer to arrive in New Zealand in 1642 was Abel Tasman, and the name he gave to the land that we now know as New Zealand, is Nauvau zealandia. The next explorer to arrive in New Zealand in 1769 was James Cook. He was trying to find a new continent or country. The name of the chief navigator helping the explorers was Tu Paia. The Europeans bring to Aotearoa was potatoes, a disease, pigs etc. After that there was a gun called a musket and the year that the musket war ended was 1840/1830.
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