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🛶 Aotearoa New Zealand Histories, Years 4 to 6

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10 questions. Get 8 right to earn 10 minutes. All 10 right = +5 bonus. They start easy and get harder as you go, so treat the first few as a warm-up. Every one you miss comes back with the answer and why.

1. In what year was the Treaty of Waitangi first signed?

1860182018401800

2. What is a pā?

A type of net for catching eelsA canoe paddleA woven cloakA fortified Māori village, often on a hill

3. Without modern instruments, how did early Polynesian navigators find their way across the open ocean?

By using paper mapsBy following underwater cablesBy reading the stars, ocean swells, winds and bird flight pathsBy radio signals from other waka

4. Roughly how many Māori rangatira, or chiefs, signed the Treaty of Waitangi during 1840, as copies were carried around the country?

About 50About 5About 5,000About 500

5. Which ocean did early Polynesian voyagers cross to reach Aotearoa?

The Pacific OceanThe Arctic OceanThe Atlantic OceanThe Indian Ocean

6. Where did Abel Tasman's crew have a violent encounter with Māori in 1642?

Wellington HarbourGolden Bay, in the north of the South IslandThe Bay of IslandsMilford Sound

7. What kind of food did early Māori communities gather from the sea?

Only seaweedNothing, they avoided the seaFish and shellfishWhale meat exclusively

8. What did missionaries hope to bring to Māori communities from the early 1800s onward?

Only new weaponsChristianity, along with reading, writing and new farming methodsNew waka designsNothing, they came purely as traders

9. What does the name 'Waitangi' generally refer to?

A settler farmA British shipA type of wakaWeeping waters, from a nearby stream

10. Which is the larger grouping, a hapū or an iwi?

An iwi, since it is made up of several hapūA hapū, since it is made up of several iwiNeither is bigger, they never combineThey are exactly the same size

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