Back to The Pacific: A.D. 1101 to 1200
Australia continued to be completely isolated from the rest of the world, and we must simply assume that the aborigines continued to live as they had for centuries, with little change in their way of life. In New Zealand, in this and the next century, there was widespread deforestation by man, along with the extinction of the large native birds, such as the Moas. Warfare occurred with the development of fortified settlements termed pa. (Ref. 8) Please see preceding module for information concerning other Pacific Islands.