Ancestral Polynesian homeland in Samoa and Tonga
Lapita heirs become Polynesians, future settlers of Hawaii
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Descendants of the Lapita seafarers who settled Tonga and Samoa had by the mid-1st millennium BC forged a distinct Polynesian culture and language. From here, later voyagers in double canoes would settle East Polynesia, from Hawaii to New Zealand.
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Europe
- c. 509 BC Founding of the Roman Republic — 9 years earlier
- 508 BC Cleisthenes' reforms and the birth of democracy — 8 years earlier
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Asia
- c. 483 BC Death of the Buddha — 17 years later
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- Pythagoras (aged 70)
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- Darius the Great (aged 50)
- Sun Tzu (aged 44)
- Leonidas I (aged 40)
- Xerxes I (aged 18)
- Heraclitus (aged 35)
- Themistocles (aged 24)