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AHC: Make Aotearoa (New Zealand) a unified, developed or semi-developed country with a Māori majority with Māori language and culture.
Possible PODs include contact and trade with Zheng He's fleet in the 15th century which helps develop the Māori tribes. Another POD could be that the British come into contact with a unified 'country' when they reach NZ. It doesn't have to be these PODs but just remember that when the Māori traded with the British, they were quick to adopt muskets, horses, pigs, potatoes etc as part of Māori society so change is not going to be a big challenge for the Māori. So maybe the Chinese could bring rice, boats, wheels, horses, farm animals, gunpowder, paper, writing systems, mining knowledge etc if they visited the islands in the 15th century and then frequently visited and traded with them from there on.
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