Eastern Pacific Case Study

Question 1: What evidence indicates that the Polynesian settlement of the islands of the eastern Pacific was the result of planned expeditions rather than accidental wandering?
Both DNA evidence and linguistic similarities indicate that the Polynesian settlement of the islands of the eastern Pacific was planned and not an accident. 


Question 2: How, and by whom, were the islands of the Caribbean settled?
In the Americas, early Amerindian voyages form South America colonized the West Indies, and there were limited maritime contacts between Pacific coast populations in South American and Central America. By the year 1000 Amerindians known as the Arawak had followed the small islands of the Lesser Antilles to the Greater Antilles as well