Pre-Colonial
Empires
First Contact
Early Contact
Te Tiriti
Colonisation
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The Māori term for indigenous people or people of the land.

What is tangata whenua?

100

The empire which colonised Aotearoa.

What is the British Empire?

100

The first European explorer to come to Aotearoa.

What is Abel Tasman?

100

The weapon introduced by Europeans.

What is a musket?

100

The first rangatira to sign Te Tiriti.

What is Hone Heke?

100

The local iwi in this area, mana whenua.

What is Ngāti Toa?

200

The group of islands where Polynesians migrated from.

What is Hawaiki?

200

A group of countries or territories ruled by one single ruler or state.

What is an empire?

200

The name of James Cook's ship.

What is the Endeavour?

200

A person sent to promote religion in a foreign country.

What is a missionary?

200

The missionary who translated the Treaty.

What is Henry Williams?

200

The process of becoming similar to others by taking in and using their customs and culture.

What is assimilation?

300

The Māori word for village/settlement.

What is kainga OR pā?

300

The term used for a leader who is a King or Queen.

What is a monarch?

300

The navigator who helped James Cook to discover and travel Aotearoa.

What is Tupaia?

300

The Company that brought European settlers to Aotearoa.

What is the New Zealand Company?

300

The date and year in which Te Tiriti was signed.

What is 6 February 1840?

300

This was set up to investigate Crown breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and arrange settlements.

What is the Waitangi Tribunal?

400

The approximate dates when Polynesians arrived in Aotearoa.

What is 1250-1300AD?

400

The legal framework that allowed monarchies to conquer and claim lands, convert indigenous people to Christianity and kill the native inhabitants of new lands.

What is the Doctrine of Discovery?

400

The location where Cook first landed and his men killed Te Maro.

What is Gisbourne/Tūranganui-a-Kiwa?

400

The township where lawlessness and violence was common due to the arrival of Europeans

What is Kororareka?

400
In article one of the treaty Māori agreed to give the Crown governance over Aotearoa, the Crown believed they had been granted this instead.

What is sovereignty?

400

This law meant that land could be confiscated from and Māori whom the Crown decided had been in “rebellion” against the authority of the Queen.

What is the New Zealand Settlements Act?

500
These two atua are known as the sky father and earth mother.

What is Ranganui and Papatūānuku?

500

A period in European history, during which Europeans explored, colonized, and conquered regions across the globe.

What is the Age of Exploration?

500

The location of Tasman's encouter with Māori.

What is Golden Bay/Mohua?

500

The man sent to address lawlessness in Kororareka. Also known as the Man-o-war without guns.

What is James Busby?

500

The fourth article of the treaty verbally promised this.

What is religious freedom?

500

Raupatu is the Māori word for this impact of colonisation.

What is land confiscations?

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