Austronesian Voyagers and Discoverers of the World

Linguists agree that Taiwan was the location where you had the greatest number of these diverse Austronesian languages spoken. It's believed that maybe 5,000 to 6,000 years ago, over a thousand years before the time of the Yellow Emperor, these people in Taiwan who lived along the mountainous east and southern coasts took to their bamboo rafts and outrigger canoes to explore the world around them. In 1769, following the visit by Captain James Cook, this same place would be called New Zealand,. These first time arrivals in Aotearoa or New Zealand became the Maori people. And they too were among these Austronesian-speaking people who by now were