- Purple: nomadic pastoralists
- Yellow: hunter-gatherers
- Brown: empires
- Green: simple farming societies
- Orange: complex farming societies/chiefdoms
- Blue: state societies
- Dark green: Iranian/Persian, Greek and Hellenized states and empires
- Red: Roman Republic and its dependencies
- White: uninhabited
Author: Briangotts?
Yep, NZ was the last place to be settled by humans. Polynesians only reached it about 1250AD. So a thousand years after this map!
Polynesians had reached South America and come back with kumara (sweet potato) before reaching NZ.