Timeline (1 AD - 300 AD) (Tongkoko)

''Following the rapid change precipitated by the introduction of new technologies and crops in the 200s BC, the first states had emerged in Papua, dependent upon trade in luxury goods carried on through the Malay states of Java and Sumatra. Yet the just-established certainties of this period were already dissolving, as the arrival of the sweet potato from Polynesia drove a population explosion in the hitherto decentralized highlands, and as resentment from the margins of the centralizing lowlands at the rulers of the lowland states, and as these rulers' resentment at the dominance of their Malay trading partners pushed them into conflict with the source of their wealth. Meanwhile, instability in Asia would make clear just how dangerous reliance on trade could be...''