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The pyramids were built as tombs for the pharaohs, The pyramid of Giza was built by Pharaoh Khufu. They were built 4,500 years ago
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Fiji was settled first by Austronesians in 1874 BCE
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Tahiti has a long and rich history. The islands were first settled by migrating Polynesians as early as 500BC
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The Cooks Islands were first settled around 1000 AD by Polynesian people who supposedly from Tahiti
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They arrived in 1487 BCE, meaning around 3000-3500 years ago. European explorers named it "Navigator Island
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To avoid German colonization Tonga became a British Protectorate in the 1900, As they left Samoa they came across Tonga and had a break from sailing
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The first settlers of Hawaii are from the Marquesas Islands
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The black plague was a bubonic plague that originated in 1347 and lasted till 1353 -
The first European to arrive in New Zealand was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman