For at least six millennia the only humans to know Taiwan were the Aboriginal peoples who called it home. But in the short span of the 1600s, it was transformed into a multicultural and multiethnic land, and into an internationally known and coveted hub in the world economy.
從考古學所知，台灣石器時代至少起於六千年前，六千年來南島語族原住民家鄉，在十七世紀荷蘭人的敲門下，進入一個多元文化與民族的時代，成為一個廣為人知的世界貿易轉運站。