History Final (Polynesians)

Question 1

explain where the polynesians are located,

Answer 1

Madagascar, large island of the East coast of Africa

Question 2

Madagascar is populated by a group who mix the ancestry of what two ancestral people? where did they originally come from?

Answer 2

Of people from the African mainland and travelers from very far away: the Austronesians/polynesians… People who originally came from as far as Southern China and Taiwan.

Question 3

these people used what to travel across which oceans?

Answer 3

These people used small boats to travel all across the Pacific Ocean and into the Indian Ocean - some arrived in Madagascar.

Question 4

Over thousands of years Austrounesian populations seeking _____ and _____ would travel across the oceans

Answer 4

land and resources

Question 5

how where they able to navigate

Answer 5

They were able to navigate using “outrigger” canoes and a sophisticated understanding of the stars in the night sky, the winds, and the ocean wildlife.