NZ a Melting Pot

Question 1

Abel Tasman

Answer 1

Abel Tasman came from a country called Netherlands or Holland. He was an explorer, sea captain and navigator. He never set foot on New Zealand soil, but he was the first recorded European to see New Zealand. The reason for his voyage was to see if there was a sea passage across the Southern Ocean to South America. He saw the South Island in 1652. He named the bay he anchored in Murder’s Bay because Maori in canoes rammed one of his ship’s boats, killing 4 of the seven people in it. The bay is now called Golden Bay. The Dutch first called New Zealand Staten Landt because they thought it was joined to South America. When they found out it was not, they called it Zeelandia Novea (the Latin version of Nieuw Zeeland).

Question 2

The first groups to live in NZ

Answer 2

Seals, whalers, traders and missionaries

Question 3

Why people migrated to NZ in the 19th century

Answer 3

• They escape the negative things from where they live
• They want more positive things from elsewhere
• They want to ‘better themselves’/change their lives
• To gain land they were struggling top get in Britain
• Overcrowding

Question 4

Origin

Answer 4

Starting point

Question 5

Push factors

Answer 5

These are negative factors which cause people to move from their origin e.g. violence, crime, pollution

Question 6

Whalers

Answer 6

People that came to hunt whales

Question 7

Colony

Answer 7

Settlement in a new country

Question 8

Pull factors

Answer 8

These are positive factors that attract people to move to their destination e.g. education, employment opportunities

Question 9

Sealers

Answer 9

People that came to hunt seals for their skins

Question 10

Culture

Answer 10

The concepts, attitudes, values and objects that a group shares in common

Question 11

Traders

Answer 11

People who came to get kauri timber for ship masts and flax for weaving

Question 12

Emigration

Answer 12

Leaving one’s own country to settle in another

Question 13

Counterflow

Answer 13

This is when people return from their destination back to their point of origin – homesick, disappointed with destination, couldn’t get a job, being a tourist

Question 14

Immigration

Answer 14

Come into a country to settle

Question 15

Colonisation

Answer 15

To establish a settlement in a new country

Question 16

Neutral Factors

Answer 16

These are factors that are of no concern to people when they migrate e.g. retired people are not concerned about schools

Question 17

Intervening Obstacles

Answer 17

These are factors that may prevent a person from migrating or may make it difficult for them to move e.g. language, leaving family and friends behind, obtaining a visa, cultural differences, cost of travel

Question 18

Missionaries

Answer 18

People who came to convert the Māori people to Christianity

Question 19

Population

Answer 19

Inhabitants in a place or country

Question 20

Consequence

Answer 20

A result or effect of one’s choice/action or what has gone before

Question 21

Interaction

Answer 21

To act on each other

Question 22

Destination

Answer 22

A place to which a person or thing is going

Question 23

Migration

Answer 23

To move from one place and settle in another

Question 24

Icon

Answer 24

A symbol or representation that stands for an object

Question 25

James Cook

Answer 25

James Cook visited New Zealand 3 times. He first visited New Zealand in 1769 in a ship called Endeavour.
Cook took “possession“ of the country in the name of the British King. He named the south-west point of Poverty Bay Young Nick’s Head after the servant boy who had first seen it. Cape Kidnappers was named because some Maori tried to drag a servant off the ship into their canoe. They were killed during the rescue. To prevent his crew from getting scurvy, Cook insisted that they eat fruit and vegetables. Cook drew excellent maps of New Zealand which were used for a long time.

Question 26

Lifestyle of a group of early European explorer

Answer 26

Who - Early European settlers, in which many were New Zealand’s most important early European settler.

What - Killing whales for their oil, teeth, bones, etc.

Where - Everywhere in New Zealand, but Cook Strait was extremely popular for shore based whalers.

Why - Whales were hunted for many reasons, mostly for what they provide to humans. Their oil was used in lamps and machinery. Corsets and whips were made out of the baleen that hangs inside the whale’s mouth to catch krill and other good. Ambergris, which forms in a whale’s stomach was also an ingredient in expensive perfumes.

How - Whaling was done by either ship-whaling, or shore-whaling. Ship whaling is hunting for whales away from shore, in boats and ships, whereas shore whaling was done onshore.