These foreigners have brought new crops, weapons and technologies. The wars between Iwi produced a strong warrior culture with a range of weapons and martial arts as well as fortified villages called Pā.īy the timeline of Wars of Liberty many European explorers have come and gone and the colonisation by Europeans, (Pākehā to the Māori), of Aotearoa has started in earnest. Different large tribes, or Iwi developed and fought each other for land, resources and Mana. Initially peaceful hunter-gatherers changes in climate and the extinction of the giant Moa birds lead the Māori to become a more agrarian society. They named this new land Aotearoa, or Land of the Long White Cloud. Five hundred years ago Polynesian explorers sighted distant mountains that they first mistook for clouds.
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