Its major industry is tourism, followed by defense and agriculture. Hawaii’s post is still present today and now is the 50th state of the Union since Aug. Captain Cook in his diary said knowing the rigors of ocean voyaging he could not comprehend how a race of people in canoes fostered together with coconut fiber rope and possessing no maps or navigational gear, such as a compass and a sextant, could have colonized such widely separated island groups, spreading itself over the vast ocean. Further digging revealed that the village had been a thriving community of about 200 people who engaged in ship manufacture for trade, and the families living on the land had access to every elevation for the cultivation of various crops and fishing and fought for the rights to the ocean.Įxplorer Captain James Cook was the first Western to find the Hawaiian islands in 1778 and breaking centuries of isolation for the Hawaiian people. It has come to be called “the Polynesian Pompeii” as archaeologists found the hull of an 80-foot canoe along with artifacts connecting the site to the Polynesians. a tidal wave swept across a coastal village burying it in just the right mixture of sand and silt to preserve into material culture.
Their achievement launched a cultural renaissance, as evidence shows that around 850 A.D. They sailed using ancient Polynesian navigational skills, guided only by the stars, wind, waves and seabirds.
Scientists believe from linguistic and archaeological research that the Polynesian people ventured to the island between 20 B.C. In sharing what I learned while visiting Hawaii and Pearl Harbor, one can never learn enough about our history and its struggle to become the land of the free and the home of the brave.The history of Hawaii reads like a good novel with explorers, heroes, gods, villains, kings and queens, the rise of a star-covered kingdom, invasions of Eastern and Western cultures, with great migrations that led to treachery, greed and war. “ALOHA” – On the history of Hawaii and of the attack on Pearl Harbor many people don’t know what led up to its attack by Japan.
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