During the more recent episodes of the History of the World Podcast, we have explored the medieval

history of the Far East and of Southeast Asia. Beyond the Asian landmass which contains China and Indochina in its

eastern most fertile reaches are a number of islands of different shapes and sizes and of varying distances from the major

land masses of planet Earth, across the vast Pacific and Indian oceans.

The most discussed original migration into this area of the world was discussed way back in

volume one when we speculated about the journey of humankind from mainland Asia

to the huge island of Australia and the origins of the peoples that we call Aboriginal Australians and this may have

happened around 50,000 years ago. In contrast Australia's neighbours in New Zealand recall that the first humans to settle their

lands were the Maori Polynesians, only around 750 years ago. Do historians know the story of how the islands to the south of

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Volume 4, The Medieval World

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