Chapter 1: The Polynesians
The Polynesians were a band of people who had ventured east on their primal ships to the far off Easter Island. They hated the land of Indonesia for some odd reason, and thought the sea provided much more solace than Sumatra.
Because of this, they founded the city of Rapa Nui on Easter Island and sent some settlers and archers northwest to settle on some other nearby islands.
As it had happened, the leader of Polynesia, Kamehameha, thought that the buildings were being built too slow in his cities. In order to fix this, he ordered the usage of local minerals he had found in the cities such as Iron, Copper, and Stone.
The settlers and archers that he had send northwest had founded cities on islands such as Tahiti and the Cook Islands. The Cook Islands had some nice fish to the northeast to stimulate their growth, as well as a volcano to the east. Tahiti didn't have much, but it did have great coconut milk to drink.
After looking at his map, Kamehameha thought they needed to explore more and meet other civilizations. In order to do this, he announced to the public that a galleon was moving west to meet new civilizations and explore the Earth.
As Kamehameha had suspected, there was a civilization to the northwest called Khmer. These people were friendly, and opened their bordered to Polynesia even though it was unlikely troops would wish to cross borders between the two nations.
Science was also advancing quickly, and the cities were growing slowly but surely.
The city of Cook Islands had finished training a division of commercial fisherman and harvested the large supply of fish to the northeast of the city. Because of this, it was easily the largest city of Polynesia. Kamehameha had plans to expand some more, but he wished to gain some more gold before he did so. Or at least finish Calendar to center the map.
The galleon that he had ordered to explore the west was exploring the region that was being called New Caledonia when a Japanese ship met them. These Japanese people were friendly just like the Khmer, and opened borders with the Polynesians. Kamehameha was pleased that these nations liked him, as he relished pleasant attention.
The people were quite bored as of now, as life was uneventful without maps and neighbors near them, but that would come with time.
