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The Origins of Taiwan
Rice and millet farmers were by then quite advanced, able to grow a surplus of food. So without the need to live as a nomad or hunter-gatherer, Neolithic settlements proliferated. It's thought these people to the east were the first to hop in their outrigger canoes and explore the great unknown. Their first journeys may not have had migration in mind and may have been simply for establishing trade relations.