polynesia

He ‘ aroha, he tatagi mata ki te rangi. Mata Ki Te Rangi suffers and weeps. Mata Ki Te Rangi, 1357 Ku'ingari was gently shaken awake by her father. “Poki, we need to leave,” he whispered urgently. “The Hanau E’epe are back.” She flinched upon hearing this, jerking away from his hand. Sleep...

The idea of Latin American colonialism in Polynesia has been previously discussed on this forum at https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/latin-american-colonialism-in-the-south-pacific.244669/, https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ahc-wi-chilean-polynesia.443489/...

Let us assume that for whatever reason, the East Asian nations be it Japan, a Chinese state, Korea, Vietnam, etc. end up reaching outward to spread their influence and defend mercentile interests. And let us assume this "East Asian Age of Discovery" begins sometime between 1200 and 1600. I'm not...

High On The Mountaintop (source https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/antique-beehive-church-stained-glass-1916530620) Formatting Shamelessly Stolen from KingSweden24's Cinco de Mayo Collaboration with @Tyche Table of Contents Section 1: Come Come Ye Saints (1837- )

If New Zealand had been colonized before 1000 BCE, could the civilization that developed there have independently developed metallurgy? NZ has plenty of mineral resources (including lots of copper and some tin) and active volcanoes; does anyone know how societies make this leap?

What if the Long Pause - the almost 2,000 year long break in Polynesian expansion - hadn't happened?

Consider the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_rafts If you read the article, there is plenty of evidence that Andean seafaring capabilities were much more developed than usually thought. In fact, the first contact between the Spanish and the Inca was with an ocean-going...

How could Tonga, or a similar Pacific island nation, experience mass economic growth to where it could be included in the "Asian Tigers" like Singapore or Hong Kong? What are possible avenues of growth or general income?

The Great Mahele was one of the great PoDs of all time. Kamehameha III of Hawaii literally chose how the all the land in his kingdom would be distributed (in 1848), and also wrote new laws for land ownership. In his shoes, you could create communism, a theocracy, technically if he wanted he...

For those not in the know, the Juan Fernández Islands are a sparsely inhabited trio of islands 670 km off Chile, consisting of Robinson Crusoe, Alejandro Selkirk and Santa Clara. They weren't discovered until November 1574 by their namesake spanish explorer, and never had any indigenous people...

1794-1805 Departing from France during the bloody Reign of Terror, three ships full of nobles, clergymen, and terrified members of the third estate who wished to flee the turmoil. The three ships, bought from the British merchant marine with the dwindling riches of the organizer Jean-Luc Auger...

While there's still some debate about whether the Polynesians beat Columbus to the Americas, what seems pretty clear is that even if they did achieve it, the mark they left wasn't particularly strong or long-lasting (with a handful of exceptions). Your challenge is to change that. Have the...

In 1843, due to claims that British citizens with in the Kingdom of Hawai'i were denied legal rights, the British Empire would occupy the Kingdom of Hawai'i for five months. Historically, it ended with peaceful negotiation and diplomacy by the Hawai'ians, but what if, in an alternate timeline...

In OTL Chile annexed the easternmost Polynesian Island, Easter Island/Rapa Nui, how can Chile and other Latin American nations colonise the Pacific? What nation could establish colonies in Oceania? Ecuador and the Central American nations are too small and weak. Colombia might have a large...

What if contact between the Māori of New Zealand and tropical Polynesia never ended, using the Kermadec Islands as a stopover en route to the Cook Islands and Tahiti? How would European colonisation of New Zealand be affected with a Māori with a stronger maritime culture? Would pigs and chickens...

Rapa Nui from Easter Island succesfully settle the Galapágos Islands and the Juan Fernandez Islands, what happens? How does contact between the Native Americans of mainland South America and the Polynesians go? What happens when Europeans arrive? What are the Galapagos and Juan Fernandez...

So ignoring how they conquered it, Māori from New Zealand settle some coastal areas in Australia. By the time the Europeans arrive the coast from Melbourne to Sydney, Flinders Island, King Island and the northern coast of Tasmania (the rest remains almost unchanged) has been settled by Māori...

For the past few months I've had an idea floating around in my head where, in a world where Germany wins World War I, an increasingly unstable and nearly bankrupt France deems itself unable to hold onto French Polynesia, and proceeds to sell the islands to Chile in an attempt to raise money...

Now I want you to imagine the coolest weapon ever. Got it? Okay well, it's not the coolest weapon ever, It's actually a coconut bomb. I was just watching videos, but then I found a video about how to open a coconut without any tools. Which is here Then I kept watching other videos about tools...

So since my name is Incanian, I thought it would be good to do a thread on my second favorite empire. Now the Inca empire timelines are always the same. So I decided to do a different timeline. What if the Inca empire was a colonial one? Spreading across the Pacific ocean. Let's say the Nazcas...