Early European explorers introduced a wide range of food plants to New Zealand, including wheat, maize, potatoes, cabbage and carrots. An American whaler introduced a variety of kūmara (sweet potato) that was larger than the kūmara Māori previously grew.
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What technology did the European settlers bring to New Zealand?
Iron tools, white potatoes, agricultural technology and firearms were all integrated into Maori livelihood, and resulted in change in Maori society and economy.
What animals did Europeans bring to NZ?
European missionaries, and later settlers, brought with them cattle, sheep and pigs as a source of food and fibre, and horses and bullocks to break in farmland and transport people and goods. They also brought cats to control rodent pests and dogs to assist with sheep farming.
What did Europeans give Maori?
Maori and Europeans began to trade with each other from the late eighteenth century. To a large extent, Europeans relied on Maori for food, including fish and vegetables, as well as for fibres such as flax, and for help with building fences and shelters. At first, Europeans determined what goods they traded with Maori.
What did the first European settlers do in New Zealand?
Treaty of Waitangi
In 1839 the New Zealand Company announced plans to buy large tracts of land and to establish colonies in New Zealand.
When did settlers come to New Zealand?
The first settlers probably arrived from Polynesia between 1200 and 1300 AD. They discovered New Zealand as they explored the Pacific, navigating by the ocean currents, winds and stars.
How did whites get to New Zealand?
The establishment of British colonies in Australia from 1788 and the boom in whaling and sealing in the Southern Ocean brought many Europeans to the vicinity of New Zealand. Whalers and sealers were often itinerant and the first real settlers were missionaries and traders in the Bay of Islands area from 1809.
What did Māori bring to NZ?
These plants were brought from Polynesia by the ancestors of Māori when they arrived in New Zealand from around 1250–1300 AD. Other food crops, such as arrowroot, banana, breadfruit, coconut and sugar cane, may also have arrived on the voyaging canoes, but could not be grown in the new country’s cooler climate.
What did the Polynesians bring to New Zealand?
Reaching New Zealand
The original migrants came from a region in East Polynesia which Māori later called Hawaiki. Bringing dogs and rats, taro and kūmara (sweet potato) to New Zealand, they found plenty of wildlife, including birds now extinct: the moa, a species of swan, and the giant Haast’s eagle.
What did missionaries bring to NZ?
The first missionaries
Marsden favoured teaching the Māori useful skills and agriculture to encourage them to convert to Christianity. He was so successful that he transformed the traditional economy of the Bay of Islands and laid the foundations for New Zealand agriculture.
What impact did the Europeans have on NZ?
As Europeans settled in New Zealand, they brought more changes to the remaining forests, animal diversity and landscape stability. Along with immigrants came new animals, crop plants, parasites and diseases. The remaining lowland forests and scrubland were burnt, drained, logged and cleared for farms and cropping.
Why did the European come to New Zealand?
The first European to sight New Zealand was Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. He was on an expedition to discover a great Southern continent ‘Great South Land’ that was believed to be rich in minerals.
What food did the British bring to New Zealand?
In the early years of European colonisation settlers brought fruit to New Zealand, including apples, pears, plums and peaches. In the early 20th century fruits including kiwifruit were introduced. In the 2000s many fruits are grown for domestic use and export.
What was the European settlement?
European Colonization of North America. The invasion of the North American continent and its peoples began with the Spanish in 1565 at St. Augustine, Florida, then British in 1587 when the Plymouth Company established a settlement that they dubbed Roanoke in present-day Virginia.
How did New Zealand get colonized?
In 1642, Dutch navigator Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the South Pacific island group that later became known as New Zealand.Whalers, missionaries, and traders followed, and in 1840 Britain formally annexed the islands and established New Zealand’s first permanent European settlement at Wellington.
Who settled New Zealand First?
Abel Tasman
Māori were the first to arrive in New Zealand, journeying in canoes from Hawaiki about 1,000 years ago. A Dutchman, Abel Tasman, was the first European to sight the country but it was the British who made New Zealand part of their empire.
What is New Zealand named after?
Zeeland
In December 1642 Dutch navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman was the first European to sight New Zealand’s South Island, and Dutch cartographers named the territory after the Dutch maritime province of Zeeland.
What did the musket trade do to Māori people?
The battles resulted in the deaths of between 20,000 and 40,000 people and the enslavement of tens of thousands of Māori and significantly altered the rohe, or tribal territorial boundaries, before the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840.
Why did British come to New Zealand?
About 200 years ago, people from Britain, Europe, and America were exploring the world to find new land to live on. The governments of these countries wanted to own more land and have more power in the world, and they wanted to find new people to trade with.
What is a white New Zealander called?
Pakeha is a Maori term for white people, especially New Zealanders of European descent.
Are Kiwis British?
New Zealanders, colloquially known as Kiwis (/kiːwiː/), are people associated with New Zealand, sharing a common history, culture, and language (New Zealand English).
New Zealanders.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| New Zealand | c. 5,120,000 |
| Australia | 640,770 |
| United Kingdom | 58,286 |
| United States | 22,872 |
