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So I've seen the concept of a Polynesian settled Australia talked about on the site but what about the other way around, an Aboriginal settled New Zealand. The biggest problem I see if how you would get a society without a strong maritime tradition to get across the Tasmanian Sea but once they got to New Zealand the Aborigines would have a major advantage over the Maori, time. In OTL, Maori people settled New Zealand between 1250 and 1300 but once we get rid of the problems of getting Aborigines over to New Zealand in the first place they could be there centuries earlier. How would their society look like? Could they build the sort of empires in New Zealand that they weren't able to in Australia?
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