A tall carved wooden epa, a panel from a Māori storehouse
Epa (carved panel for a storehouse), Mid-18th century or earlier
Marked Wairau Bar

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

Māori Aotearoa

Polynesian settlers reached Aotearoa New Zealand around 1280 and became the Māori. Their history runs through moa hunting, fortified pā, the coming of Europeans, the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, the wars that followed and the revival of te reo Māori.

Place
Wairau Bar · Waitangi · Ōrākau · RangiririOceania
Laid out as
A civilisationA society seen from the inside: its rulers, places, work, beliefs and daily life, laid out like the rooms of a house.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IArrival
  2. IIMoa hunters
  3. IIIPā and iwi
  4. IVShips from Europe
  5. VTe Tiriti o Waitangi
  6. VIThe New Zealand Wars
  7. VIITe reo comes back

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Kupe (in tradition)
  • Hongi Hika
  • Te Rauparaha
  • Hone Heke
  • Whina Cooper

Objects

  • Te Tiriti o Waitangi
  • Carved wharenui
  • Pounamu (greenstone)

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1280 to now. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?