| Hawaii has been admired for its heavenly islands | | | | Kanaka Maoli lived in thousands in a system that |
| and its history of rich culture. It continues to | | | | was highly organized, self sufficient and subsistent |
| attract tourists from around the world to visit it | | | | social. This number has been severely reduced to |
| again and again. Its beaches frequently host | | | | less than 40,000 people since first contact with |
| international surfing champions. However, there is | | | | explorers and missionaries. |
| also fearsome chain of volcanoes as it is located | | | | War and diseases caused the reduction in |
| in the Pacific. Hawaii is also rich in source of natural | | | | numbers. Kanaka Maoli were basically healthy |
| resources like bananas, coconuts and sugarcane | | | | people but were not prepared for the diseases |
| products. Apart from beaches, volcanoes and | | | | like smallpox. Besides that, the Hawaii people who |
| natural products, Hawaii takes pride in its people | | | | were divided earlier as kingdoms started to fight |
| called the Kanaka Maoli. They are a happy and | | | | with more aggression with the availability of |
| warm group who managed the kingdom before | | | | weapons like swords and guns. Although after |
| the British colonization. | | | | thirty two years of the arrival of Captain James |
| The islands of Hawaiian Archipelago are the most | | | | Cook and his crew, Hawaii got united under the |
| inhabited in the world. They are situated at a | | | | kingdom of Kamehameha I with the help of a |
| distance of nearly 2400 miles from California, | | | | mighty army and foreign weapons. |
| 2400 miles from the Marquesas Islands and 3800 | | | | He was succeeded by his son Kamehameha II |
| miles from Japan. The Marquesas Islands is | | | | also named Liholiho, not only changed Hawaii |
| believed to be the place where the first settlers | | | | politically but also socially. He eradicated the a |
| known as the Menehune arrived around 300 to | | | | taboo system called kapu in his reign breaking one |
| 400 AD. Later, group of settlers from Tahiti | | | | of them by eating with his stepmother and other |
| displaced this settlement and they overthrew the | | | | higher ranked women. Men and women eating |
| Menehune people because the Tahiti people were | | | | together was forbidden and was one of the |
| taller and physically stronger. | | | | kapus, punishable by death. |
| Hawaii's isolation from the rest of the world is the | | | | Liholiho was succeeded by Kamehameha III who |
| reason why it was one of the last places to be | | | | continued to carry the torch for the family's |
| discovered. It was discovered by Captain James | | | | propensity and make political, governance and |
| Cook in 1778 searching for passageway between | | | | evolutionary changes in Hawaii. He issued the |
| Asia and Alaska. He named them Sandwich | | | | Hawaiian Declaration of Rights and promulgated |
| Islands. A lot of Americans and Europeans | | | | the Constitution for the Hawaiian Islands, this |
| explored the islands after Cook. | | | | changed the governance of Hawaii from a |
| The first people of Hawaii who were called | | | | complete monarchy to a constitutional monarchy. |