What role did new technological developments play in the Polynesian colonization of the Pacific islands?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Technological developments
1. building projects
a. large-scale labor was mobilized to carve out artificial islets with increasingly monumental ceremonial centers
b. cities arose around paved streets within high walls of massive construction
2. long-range navigation
a. way to maximize resources, extend economic opportunities, and diversify the ecosystem
3. maritime technology
a. double-hulled canoes big enough to carry 200 people or smaller vessels with outriggers for longer journeys, rigged with claw-shaped sails that kept the mast and rigging light
b. direction-finding techniques
1. chants to help navigators remember the complex guidance of the stars
c. mapped the ocean's swells
1. mentally or perhaps with maps made of reeds
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