COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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Detailed explanation-1: -European explorers first reached the Samoan islands in the early 18th century. In 1768, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville named them the Navigator Islands.
Detailed explanation-2: -Samoa’s first people were seafarers who, guided by the stars, arrived on outrigger canoes around 1, 000BC. Ancient myths and legends say the first people descended from the heavens and gods to inhabit these islands, however, It is believed they came from Tonga.
Detailed explanation-3: -The first European to see the Samoas was Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen, who in 1722 sighted the Manu’a Islands in what is now American Samoa. The first Europeans to land were part of a French expedition under Jean La Pérouse in 1787.
Detailed explanation-4: -Migrants from Southeast Asia arrived in the Samoan islands more than 2, 000 years ago and from there settled the rest of Polynesia further to the east. Contact with Europeans began in the early 1700s but did not intensify until the arrival of English missionaries and traders in the 1830s.