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Both Italy and New Zealand geographically
are long narrow and angular with
International ski resorts at one end and subtropical climates
at the other ::
Rome is the Capitol, Historical and
Geographical center of Italy, Lat.
42 deg. N.
Wellington is the Capitol, Historical and geographical center
of New Zealand, Lat. 42 deg. S. ::
Northern area of Italy has the Italian Alps and the "Dolomites"
where the rare Edelweiss flower is found -
the average peak 10,000 ft, - highest peak Mt Rosa 15217 ft -
Southern area of New Zealand has the Southern Alps and the "Remarkables"
where the rare Mount Cook Lilly
is found - the average peak 10,000 ft, - highest peak Mt Cook
12349 ft ::
Italy has three major active volcanos,
Vesuvius, Etna and Stromboli,
New Zealand has three major active volcanos, Tongariro, Ngauruhoe
and Ruapehu ::
Extensive pine forests abound in both countries, Italian &
New Zealand Scientists colaborate in developing the science
of genetically cloning the perfect variety of pine tree that produce
the most super ft (volume) with the least blemishes,
in the shortest time ::
Active Geothermal fields in Italy and New Zealand have been harnessed
to produce substantial supplies of electricity to
the national grids and lead the world in geothermal energy development
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Italy has 60 million people, New Zealand has 4 million people
and 50 million sheep & 60 million cows ::
Italy has one of the highest number of cars in the world per capita,
New Zealand has one of the highest number of pleasure boats in
the world per capita ::
Although they dont share the same
political stability, both have adopted
a very similar M.M.P ( mixed member parliament ) system of Government
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A brief history of the earliest Human habitation of New Zealand
Historians beleive that
the peopling of New Zealand began between 250bc and 1150ad.
At some point between these two dates a group of Polynesians became
the first New Zealanders.
Precisely who they were and where they came from has intrigued
historians.
Modern research favours south east Asia and locates the Polynesian
homeland somewhere between Taiwan
and New Guinea, within the BismarkArchipelagoof the coast of New
Guinea.
Melenesian and Polynesian Pacific Island society developed side
by side.
As the capacity for ocean voyaging developed, people from this
culture moved through the Pacific islands
reaching Tonga and Samoa by 1000bc and the society islands and
the Marquesas by 200bc and 300ad and
it was from here, these great navigators struck off for Hawaii,
Easter Island and New Zealand.
Can we be more precise about the origins of the Maori ? Yes ! - DNA research carried out in
2006 established
beyond doubt that the origins of the "MAORI" people
were found to descend from a sub tribe of the abotiginal
inhabitants of TAIWAN !
Early European researchers who transcribed Maori myth and legends
in the late nineteenth century
provided us with a simple chronology of Kupe a heroic explorer,
discovering New Zealand in 925ad to settle it
about 1150ad and a great fleet of seven canoes arrived via Raratonga
about 1350ad.
After the 1950s the availability of carbon dating put this tidy
romanticised account under increasing scrutiny.
The notion of the Great Fleet as a deliberate single act of settlement,
was countered by a view which stressed
accidental drift and desperate flight into the unknown.
while the former was soon discredited, the credibility of the
latter was strengthened by calculations that as few
as six first settlers had a 48 percent chance of establishing
a viable population.
Although there may have been some earlier Polynesion contact,
on-going human settlement of New Zealand
probably occured in the late eleventh century.
First settlement was likely to have been mainly in the far north
of the North Island and later spreading rapidly to the South Island
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A very brief history history of the earliest Human habitation of Italy
The Town of FIESOLE in Tuscany was
first Inhabited during the Bronze age (circa 2000 BC),
The city reached its cultural height during the Iron Age (circa
7th - 4th cent. BCE) when Etruscan civilization flourished there.
A people whose language and culture shows connection and integration
with that of ancient Greece, the Etruscans operated a
prosperous and complex economy and organized their territorial
settlements politically into city-states - called lucumonies by
modern writers. During the Hellenistic period (late 4th - early
3rd century bc.) Fiesole added a city wall. Strategically, the
city
controlled traffic between south-central Etruria (Tuscany, Umbria
and Latium) and the Etruscan settlements of the Po valley.
In the Roman Age, Fiesole defended successfuly against invasions
from the north and allied with Rome against Hannibal in 217 bc.
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