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Pacific, Settlement of

Paleoanthropology
Pan-Africanism

Paper
Parliamentarianism
Pastoral Nomadic Societies

Paul, St.
Peace Making in the
Modern Era

Peace Projects
Pentecostalism Pacific,
Periodization—Overview
Settlement of
Periodization, Conceptions of
Persian Empire hen Captain James Cook discovered Christmas
WIsland, at the very center of the Pacific Ocean, in
Peter the Great
1777, he wrote that there was no trace of any people
Pilgrimage having been there before him. He was mistaken, for his

Piracy men had seen some rats, which must have been intro-
duced, and subsequent research shows that Polynesians
Plastics
had colonized Christmas Island 500 years before its
Plato European discovery. In fact, archaeological evidence
shows that most of the approximately 1,500 habitable
Political Thought
Pacific islands had been settled by about 1000 CE in a
Polo, Marco series of migrations that required the longest ocean pas-

Population sages prior to the voyages of European exploration in the
fifteenth century. The development of long-distance sea-
Population Growth as Engine
faring, the consequent pattern of island colonization, and
of History
the impact of people on long-isolated and fragile envi-
Porcelain ronments are issues of significance to world history.
Stretching across one-third of the earth’s surface, the
Portuguese Empire
Pacific Ocean is vast, varied, and scattered, with perhaps
Postcolonial Analysis 25,000 islands of all types and sizes, most of them in a

Postmodernism wide tropical belt that extends southeast from Indonesia
to Easter Island. They were settled in two broad phases
Production and Reproduction
of migration. The large islands of Southeast Asia, Aus-
Progress tralia, New Guinea, and the Solomons constitute “Near
Property Rights and Contracts Oceania,” and they were first settled during the Late
Pleistocene. The generally small islands of Micronesia,
Protestantism eastern Melanesia (Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Fiji), and

Polynesia (all the islands in the triangle with vertices at