How did canoe riding indonesians manage to colonise and conquer madagascar, and also cross the indian ocean

They already did but going east not west

No.

Polynesians are Austronesian, Australian Aboriginals are not.

Interestingly though, before whites came to Australia, Indonesians were already in contact with the Australian north west. So Australia wasn't quite as isolated as people like to imagine.

wut?

We wuzz bravest sailors and shietz

Polynesians (Austronesians) did reach South America. Presumably the reason they didn't explore it is that it was already heavily settled and it was a completely different environment than they were used too.

That said, it's possible some of the Polynesians did mke it further than known.. see link. nature.com/news/dna-study-links-indigenous-brazilians-to-polynesians-1.12710

Also, Polynesians may have made it to California too.

etc.ancient.eu/interviews/polynesians-in-california-evidence-for-an-ancient-exchange/

They did. That's how yams got there.

No. Australian abbos are more like their ancient uncles. Polynesians are still closer to Asians than they are Abbos, but are closer to Abbos than they are to whites or blacks.

>implying people could sail that distance before the Early Modern Period

Lots of people died some survived and lived to tell the tale. Thats the beauty of trial and error user.

>implying people could sail that distance before the Early Modern Period

>How did people settle New Zealand, Hawai'i and the other Polynesian islands before the early modern period?

>What SEAsians had isn't exactly a canoe. Otherwise you'd be describing a viking longship in the same manner.
but vikings are white so their technology is automatically more impressive

Next you'll be telling me Corsica was inhabited prior to the 15th century.

Their motivation had to do with their culture. Once an island's population was starting to grow too much, it was customary for a chief's son to take his "crew" and sail to out to another island to start a new settlement and rule there as a new chief. They had excellent sailing skills and were very good at reading the stars and particularly the animals i.e. if a flock of birds is moving in that direction, there's probably an island there for them to land on

>Corsica
The meme is about Sardinia newfag

they spawned their as per the will of God. Though sailing there is easy to be honest.

I would guess they went via Ceylon, to the Arabian peninsula, nd thence down the coast of Africa.

Hell, the first time or two, they may have hugged the coast most all of the way.

Once they knew where it was, as was mentioned above they knew how to navigate in the open sea pretty damn well.

>What SEAsians had isn't exactly a canoe. Otherwise you'd be describing a viking longship in the same manner.
but vikings are white so their technology is automatically more impressive

It si retard, they made it through the fucking Atlantic Ocean, the pacific is a pretty pacific ocean it's almost like a sea,

Shit baits.

>t. 75 IQ

The SEAsians arrived earlier than the bantu populations

>My ancestors
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Not even that, there was even Indian Ocean trade during the time of Sumer. See Dilmun (Bahrain) and Meluha (IVC)

We think they did, due to genetic similarities between Sweet potatoes in South America and the Pacific

how did canoe riding Amerindians discover Europe? Was it a big canoe?

What suprises me more is that they never colonised Australia

luck

THIS IS MY TOPIC
They didn't directly come to Madagascar, the trailed the islands and littoral.

It's the reason why Maldivians use Austronesian rather than Indo-arab ship building techniques and Swahili use Austronesian terms for boat parts.

Also we were mixed by the time we reached the island and there was nothing to conquer.

The oft light skin Merina were easily picked off by other malagasy sub-groups until the french came.

Also while this thread is fresh let me point out commonly held misconceptions:

We do not descend from Dayak, our language is Banjar derived

We do in fact have Oceanian/"Polynesian" ancestry unlike most Indonesians of the west due to negrito/australoid like maternal ancestry

The coastal populations were more powerful than the highland populations until much later in history

Arabs and Arabo-Swahili provided the lexicon for days, months, greetings, woven clothing and a number of other terms and technologies like writing and paper making

Arab Malagasy exist in the Southeast amongst the chiefly clans

At some point populations that created Great Zimbabwe crossed the Mozambique Channel and completely altered Western and Southern Malagasy society.

All domesticated animals use African names, most crops use Austronesian names

Malagasy are the only populations of Africans to not use fur and wild animal skins but also also one of the few to utilize native silkworms

It's called wayfinding. The Polynesians used the movement of celestial bodies, the currents of the Pacific and the routes migrating animals like birds took to find out where other islands were located.

How did Austronesians reach Madagascar but they passed by Mauritius and the Seychelles?

The picture is misleading, they would have sailed across the coast and not on open water like in the picture.

Just (((WHO))) the hell are you???

Sardinian identity is a modern construct!

I make the Malagasy Threads on here
Proto-Malagasy were shore people, those deep ocean islands probs were at most used for fresh water and food like coconuts and meat.

Remember as rice obsessed people's atolls and low fertility lowlying islands were not ideal.

Maldivians knew about Seychelles and would secretly gather coco-de-mer from there for trade

There was no need to.