Hello fellow readers and welcome todays blog post is about Early Encounters in Aotearoa we had to do this for Who are we hurumanu it has to be a summary of some fact we found.
In 1642 Abel Tasman arrived in Aotearoa he named the land Nova Zealandia.Then in 1769 James cook arrived in Aotearoa he brounght a chief navigator to help him explorer his name was Tupai. The Europeans brounght Pigs,Potatoes,ship rats and diseases.There was a war called the musket wars musket are a type of gun the wars ended in the 1830's.
There is a picture of Abel Tasman ship