As I recall, in the case of Cape Verde, it's very barren and windswept and quite far off the African continent. It was however a useful stopping-place for the Portuguese when they travelled and trafficking slaves to Brazil so grew from there, although I think constantly received resources from these ships as there wasn't much there.
Also interesting to note that the Maori and the Australian Aborigines are very different from each other, as the Aborgines walked from Asia when there was a landbridge 70,000 years ago, while New Zealand was settled by Polynesians
Aborigine isn't really commonly used in academics anymore (or quiz sites, I assume). You can find a PDF for schoolchildren to learn better terms by Googling "Appropriate Terminology, Indigenous Australian Peoples". It's a fun PDF with lots of colours and activities!
I'm neither an Aboriginal Australian or Torres Strait Islander but I am Australian and I've heard 'Aboriginal Australians' or 'First Nations People' are also appropriate. If you're discussing a specific location like Melbourne or Adelaide, try to mention the Aboriginal group so Wurundjeri and Kaurna people respectively
Got everything but Madagascar. When I saw Borneans, I started going through every Oceania and SE Asian country. Didn't even think about countries to the west. Very interesting.
I did the same, but after seeing the answer, i realised i allready knew that, well not borneans specifically, but that region, and not settled by africans or europeans
I was curious as to why the quiz stopped at 9, and the next step jumps back 1500 years to Vanuatu and Samoa at 1000 BC. Yeah, probably a good place to cut!
As far as I know, the Taino were the only ones, at the time, really exploring those waters. Since they came from either South or Central America, the Bahamas would be quite far away.
You're no doubt correct. But being only 50 miles from Florida, it's just hard to fathom never being discovered! But I guess it comes down to the extent each civilization explored the oceans.
Yes, the trade winds helped Polynesians explore the other Pacific islands first. NZ was the last major land mass in the Pacific to be settled by humans.
New Zealand is bigger, but it's also extremely remote. Not only is it further west than most of those countries and much further south, it's also just very isolated with not much around it. If you zoom in closely to countries in Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia you'll see that there are tons of little islands scattered about making hopping from one to the next much more feasible for people without modern sailing ships. New Zealand is just off to one corner by itself...
This, and the fact that prevailing winds don't blow as much toward NZ, make it one of the safest places in the world to flee to in case of a large-scale nuclear war.
I'm no expert, but surely even nomads, permanently living on a given landmass, count as settlers. Why wouldn't they? Out of curiosity, what "areas" did you have in mind?
Is anyone else surprised that the Bahamas weren't discovered till 850? I know that is really long ago, but they are very close to the mainland, and I feel like the who were visiting all these island chains in the Caribbean would have found them at some point.
This, and the fact that prevailing winds don't blow as much toward NZ, make it one of the safest places in the world to flee to in case of a large-scale nuclear war.