social studies term 3 week 3

Made in Taiwan

Oscar and Nathan’s excellent adventure

The programme traces the  journey made by Oscar and Nate to find where their ancestors migrated  from.  Nate is from New zealand and Oscar is from samoa.  Oscar and Nate used DNA to show who their ancestors were who journeyed across the Pacific. Scientists at Oxford University use dna to identify a person’s clan mother and father.  The answers who navigated their way across the Pacific used stars to navigate by; Oscar and Nate are using their genes to go backwards in time.

Nate’s family are from Mahia on the east coast of New Zealand’s north island and he went back there to open the results from the DNA test, where they were onto the welcomed.  According to the scientists, Nate’s clan mother was from East Eurasia and America (not from england as she thought).  Nate’s father is Maori.  

The next stop on their journey was 3000 km away in rarotonga in the Cook Islands.  According to the scientists who study DNA, three-quarters of Maori and Cook Islanders shear the same ancestry.  Oscar and Nate went to the spot from where, according to local polynesian, waka like the takitimu set out to New Zealand some 700 years ago.  The languages between the two cultures are very similar and Oscar says that it is just like having an older brother. Their “origin” stories – how they explain where they came from - are very similar too.  

Arriving in samoa it was Oscar’s turn to open his envelope revealing his DNA results.  His family appeared nervous, unsure of what the science would show.  Samoans can trace their ancestry back 12,000 years.   

On the next leg of their journey the pair arrived in Vanuatu and found another means of tracing the routes of their migration: patterns .  The Lapita peoples journeyed across the Pacific thousands of years ago, leaving behind the pottery which they made.  The pottery showed that the lapita people transferred their tattooing skills to pottery.  carbon dating allows scientists to accurately date when the pottery was made.  An archaeological dig showed that skeletons were well preserved in their graves.  For Oscar and Nate, the dig seemed tapu (sacred) but for the people of Vanuatu digging the graves is a way of understanding their history.

The last stage in their journey took them to Taiwan.  Again they were amazed at how similar they looked in appearance to the indigenous coastal people of Taiwan, like Niwa who showed them around.  In a museum dedicated to pre-history, Oscar and Nate could see the resemblances between the people, for examples in the facial moku.  Even some of the words used were similar.  The yam, taro and coconut all came from here and were taken across the Pacific by early voyagers.  Taiwan was the beginning of their gene story.

quiz

1. emigrate is to exit a country
2. push factor is something that makes you want to leave a country to go to another
3. a example of a push factor is war, politics
4. two things that are needed when you do a bar graph is a frame and a title
5. name one place someone has from or two Tim Christchurch
6. name the two case studies we are going to look at

conditions in England

• workers where living in cheep built houses that become slums 
• if you where fired from a job you would be kicked out of your house 
• they had to shear there house with another family 
• no garden o space outside for kids to play in
• no running water 
•  spread quickly 
• kids diffident go to school and where under feed 
• lots of children who were working 

push factor from England 

• respect for law and order was taught convicts where transported
• there where problems in the new industrial cities such as working class children being employed at jobs like chimney sweeping and pulling coal trucks underground
• the basis of society was land a mans place in society depended on how much he owned the upper classes were the landed gentry and the lower classes where landless

government:



education:

• education was by church, voluntary organisations and free- paying 

society:

• the basis of society was land a mans place in society depended on how much he owned the upper classes were the landed gentry and the lower classes where landless
• religion was organised by the established church was the protestant church other religions where allowed such as roman Catholicism
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seel paragraph

statement

explanation

example

link -back to the question or to the next paragraph

s: a pull factor in something that draws you to a country

e: new Zealand is a country in the pacific ocean and lots of people want to go to

e: new Zealand have lots of open land and job opportunists

l: new Zealand is a country in the pacific ocean and has lots of open land and job opportunists and good skiing

why do the British want to leave England

s: British people want to leave England because of all the push factors that make them want to leave
e: in England  during the industrial revolution people went to go and work in the factory's in bad conditions rather then on the farms
e: during the industrial revolution people went to go work in factory's in the factory's there where bad conditions for the workers and low pay so there children had to go work in the same jobs there parents where in and there house was sheared with another family so if someone got sick it would spread very fast
l: the British wanted to leave England because of the bad living conditions, working conditions and bad pay