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===Pre-Colonial=== | ===Pre-Colonial=== | ||
The islands that would become Sarolasta began to be populated by ancient Polynesians around 2400 BC. Racially and ethnolinguistically, the first wave of Polynesian settlers were of {{wp|Micronesians|Little Polynesian}} stock. They were later partially displaced by a second wave of {{wp|Polynesians|Greater Polynesian}} stock migrating out from what is now {{wp|Stenza}} around 1450 BC. Greater Polynesians would conquer and settle primarily in modern-day Svonga-Ngatra, Tarunua, and Leviti State, and explorers from Svonga-Ngatra would later sail south to colonise the remote [[Katorue]] archipelago. | The islands that would become Sarolasta began to be populated by ancient Polynesians around 2400 BC. Racially and ethnolinguistically, the first wave of Polynesian settlers were of {{wp|Micronesians|Little Polynesian}} stock. They were later partially displaced by a second wave of {{wp|Polynesians|Greater Polynesian}} stock migrating out from what is now {{wp|Stenza}} around 1450 BC. Greater Polynesians would conquer and settle primarily in modern-day Svonga-Ngatra, Tarunua, and Leviti State, and explorers from Svonga-Ngatra would later sail south to colonise the remote [[Katorue]] archipelago. | ||
In the outer islands, geographic and ecological constraints arrested the political development of indigenous societies beyond the level of chiefdoms, and a relatively egalitarian society regulated primarily through kinship networks would remain in place there until the colonial era. On Grand Sarolasta, however, the more agriculturally productive areas of the island supported the establishment of more complex and stratified polities which Occidental scholars distinguish from mere chiefdoms as ''principalities''. | |||
===Colonial=== | ===Colonial=== | ||