Editing Micronesia (section)

===Early European contact===
[[File:Reception of the Manila Galleon by the Chamorro in the Ladrones Islands, ca. 1590.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|[[Manila galleon|Manila Galleon]] in the [[Mariana Islands|Marianas]] and [[Caroline Islands|Carolinas]], c. 1590 [[Boxer Codex]]]]
The earliest known contact with Europeans occurred in 1521, when a Spanish expedition under [[Ferdinand Magellan]] reached the Marianas.<ref>{{Cite book |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8V3vZxOmHssC&q=ferdinand+magellan+mariana+islands&pg=PA379 |title = The Encyclopedia of the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars: A Political, Social, and Military History |isbn = 9781851099511 |last1 = Tucker |first1 = Spencer |year = 2009 | publisher = ABC CLIO | location = Santa Barbara, California}}</ref> This contact is recorded in [[Antonio Pigafetta]]'s chronicle of Magellan's voyage, in which he recounts that the Chamorro people had no apparent knowledge of people outside of their island group.<ref>{{cite book | editor-last = Levesque | editor-first =  Rodrigue | year = 1992–1997 | title = History of Micronesia: A collection of source documents, Vols. 1–20 | location = Quebec, Canada | publisher = Levesque Publications | pages = 249, 251}}</ref> A Portuguese account of the same voyage suggests that the Chamorro people who greeted the travellers did so "without any shyness as if they were good acquaintances".{{sfn|Rainbird|2004|p=13-14}}

Further contact was made during the sixteenth century, although often initial encounters were very brief. Documents relating to the 1525 voyage of [[Diogo da Rocha]] suggest that he made the first European contact with inhabitants of the Caroline Islands, possibly staying on the [[Ulithi]] atoll for four months and encountering [[Yap]]. Marshall Islanders were encountered by the expedition of Spanish navigator [[Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón]] in 1529.<ref>{{Cite report|first1=Kenneth O.|last1=Emery|first2=J I.|last2=Tracey|first3=H. S.|last3=Ladd|title=Geology of Bikini and Nearby Atolls|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CegqAQAAIAAJ&q=%C3%81lvaro+de+Saavedra+marshall+islands&pg=PA3|series=Geological Survey Professional Papers|volume=260|number=1|page=3|year=1954}}</ref> Other contact with the Yap islands occurred in 1625.{{sfn|Rainbird|2004|p=14}}