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The first population of NZ was fisherman and hunting people(East Polynesian ancestry),ago perhaps 1000 years before Europeans arrived.
Then, the Moa-hunters was arrive for form the Maoris people.
The NZ was called "Aotearoa",usually transladed as "land of the long white cloud". -
Abel Tasman is a Dutch navigator that made the first record European sighting of NZ and sketched sections of the two main island' west coasts.
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The lumbering, the seal hunting, and the whaling attracted a few European settlers to NZ.
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He explored the whole island and made the map detailing.
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Due to expanding European settlement, he create the conflict with Maori.
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The Maori won the right to a certain number of reserved seats in Parliament. During this period, the livestock industry began to expand,and the foundations of NZ's modern economy took shape.
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Women received the right to vote in national elections.
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The United States(and Australia) suspended its ANZUS security obligations to NZ.
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New Zealand inaugurated a mixed-member proportional(MMP) system to elect its Parliament. The system was designed to increase representation of smaller parties in Parliament and appears to have done so in the MMP elections to date.
