Why Polynesian Nations Are Underdeveloped Historically

There are many historical, political and geographical reasons why regions of the world, when discovered by Eurasia, were still living as hunter-gatherers or Stone Age lifestyles.

For this article, I’ll focus on the Polynesian regions and why European explorers from the 16th to 18th centuries discovered them while the area was still in the Stone Age.

Polynesia was only colonised by humanity in 900 CE, during the initial expansion of the People that migrated from the Eurasian continent to Polynesia, with only access to dogs, chickens and other small animals.

Polynesia didn’t have any animals of burden such as Ox, horses, sheep or other animals for farming or slaughter.

This meant that the Polynesians had to regress to hunter-gatherers and live in Stone Age conditions.

Unfortunately, access to resources and the availability of domesticated animals dictate the ability of a civilisation and its societies to advance or regress.

Humanity discovered the ability to farm in 27,000 BC or before the common era, and successfully took off and expanded to the rest of humanity in 13,000 BC.

This was due to trial and error and the lack of domesticated animals to assist farming.

Civilisations were built upon the ability to produce adequate food, which the Polynesians did not have, keeping their civilisation small. Without food production, there would be no…