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The first settlers who came to New Zealand were the ancestors of the Māori. They sailed from the Pacific Islands to New Zealand on waka. They lived in New Zealand before anyone else came. They built the house with anything they could find but Maoris started coming into New Zealand around the 1320 and 1350.
When Maori’s came to New Zealand in 1320 and 1350, different kind of explorers came after that. The first explorer who came to New Zealand was Abel Tasman he was the first European to sailed around New Zealand in 1642, He came to boats to ride around New Zealand to see if anyone was in New Zealand yet but he died in 10 October 1659 because of natural causes around the age of 56. The next explorer was James Cook, he was a British explorer, he came to New Zealand its because that he and Maoris had a deal but it didn’t get successful but some of the Maoris got killed that time. He went all around New Zealand to prove that a great southern continent did not exist in the Pacific. James cook came into New Zealand in October 1769.
After when I said that James Cook and the Maoris had a deal and it got successful that's when James Cook got really mad that he wanted to fight for New Zealand (The whole country). In 8 October 1769 that's when the Maoris and James Cook and his crew were gonna fight, the place where they have fight was called Turanganui-a-Kiwa, but James Cook was very smart, he had 4 tribes to wonder around east side of the Tūranganui River.
