Legend joined both the geological and historical reality. The trip to Tahiti, one that did the Polynesian settlers - the second wave of settlers, more specifically, the first part is half a millennium earlier, from the fifth century of our era, the Marquesas Islands. The discoveries of archaeologists, linguists and geneticists gradually draw the portrait of the most incredible human migration ever undertaken: the conquest of the Pacific, waves, by groups of men and women who left in Southeast Asia is 50 000 years ago. Scathing aboard canoes, and large double-hulled canoes (similar to catamarans present) developed as stated control of navigation, they occupied over the centuries a third of the planet. Black Peoples of the

 

first migrations, the ancestors of Australian Aborigines and Melanesians, were relayed to 5000 BC. J.-C. by Austronesian-speaking peoples, one of whose branches has spread to Madagascar! To the east, from 1000 BC. AD, the group of Lapita was Tonga and Samoa, where, in their wake, a form of culture in itself: the Polynesians were born. From these strongholds island, the seamen unmatched, heading into Wednesday with just the stars, planets and their movements, would conquer an area larger than any other people in history: the Marquesas, the first (300 / 600), which were earned the Tuamotus, Hawaii (400/650) and Easter Island (400/500). Other islands were deserted now occupied and then abandoned. The conquest of the great ocean ended with the settlement of New Zealand around the year 1000, defining the Polynesian triangle, the largest ever cultural space shaped by a single people. Archipelagos, if they were not a nation in a political sense, maintained for most commercial and cultural ties. The remoteness of Hawaii is the archipelago to develop in isolation, with contacts increasingly spaced, until the link is broken to the fourteenth century.