| We know that the ancient Austronesians grew rice, millet, and sugar cane. |
| Austronesians migrated to Timor, and are thought to be associated with the development of agriculture on the island. |
| Fiji has been inhabited since the second millennium BC, and was settled first by Austronesians and later by Melanesians, with some Polynesian influences. |
| Although settlers from China took over the western plains, Qing administrators forbade settlers from entering the mountainous territories of the Austronesians. |
| Other Austronesians sailed further south of the Philippines to southern islands such as Western New Guinea. |
