History
Location
Migration
Pioneer Explorers
European Explorers Rediscover Samoa
100

History is passed on through verbal or nonverbal 

What is communication

100

About 14 degrees south longitude, and 170 degrees west latitude.  

What is the absolute location of American Samoa?

100

The two migration theories of areas where the early Samoans came from.

What is Southeast Asia and South America?

100

This explorer was the first to see the Pacific Ocean in 1513 and named it, "The Great South Sea".

Who was Basco Balboa?

100

In 1722, this Dutch explorer rediscovered the Manu'a islands.

Who was Jacob Roggeveen?

200

An example of verbal communication used by early Samoans to share history

What is fagogo (storytelling)?

200

About 2600 miles southwest of Hawaii

What is the relative location of American Samoa?

200

This testing of several Polynesians helped to support the Southeast Asia migration theory.

What is DNA testing?

200

Ferdinand Magellan entered the Great South Sea in 1520 and named it ______ for its calm waters.

What is Pacific?

200

In 1768, this French explorer rediscovered the Samoa islands and named them the Navigator Islands.

Who is Louis Bougainville?

300

A study of people and events of the past.

What is history?

300

The Samoan Islands are located at about the center of this region of the Pacific Ocean with Hawaii, Easter Island, and New Zealand at the 3 outlying tips.

What is the Polynesian Triangle?

300

The similarities of these statues to those in South America helped to support the South America Migration theory.

What are the Moai statues of Easter Island?

300

Pedro de Quiros was the European explorer who first rediscovered these two Polynesian islands.

What are Tahiti and Swains Islands?

300

In 1787, this French explorer anchored his ships at Fagasa Bay in search for water.

Who was Jean La Perouse?

400

The past can be either ancient or

What is recent?

400

American Samoa is located about 1800 miles northeast of 

What is New Zealand?
400

The name of Thor Heyerdal's boat that he sailed from South America to Polynesia to prove his South America Migration theory.

What is the Kon Tiki?

400

Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer who rediscovered Fiji and Tonga and was the first to see ___________.

What is New Zealand?

400

In 1791, this British admiral was the first to bring a foreign ship into Pago Pago Harbor.

Who was Captain Edward Edwards?

500

A study of history can help us to learn from the past, understand the present, and __________ for the future.

What is prepare?

500

The location of the Moai statues

What is Easter Island?

500

The similarities in the pronunciation and spelling of these three words for love in Samoan, Hawaiian, and Maori help to support the Samoan Expansion theory of migration throughout the Polynesian Triangle.

What are alofa, aloha, and aroha?

500

Another word for circling the whole globe that Magellan was credited for.

What is circumnavigate?

500

The name of the ship that was the first foreign vessel to enter Pago Pago Harbor, and the name of the ship he was sent to look for.

What are the HMS Pandora and the HMS Bounty?

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