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Cause: Skilled navigators used star paths, swells, and bird signs to sail across the Pacific. Effect: Hawai‘i became settled, with new communities starting farming, fishing, and cultural traditions.
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Cause: Navigation allowed people to travel between islands to hsare food, tools, and traditions.
Effect: Trade and cultural links kept communities united, even though they lived far apart. -
Cause: Knowledge of stars, swells, and clouds was passed down orally to younger Polyneisan generations.
Effect: Navigation became a respected skill that presevered culture and kept people safe on long voyages. -
Cause: Navigators countied long-distance sailing to Tahiti and other islands.
Effect: Hawaiians shared relgion, stories, and customs with other Polyneisan societies, showing culrutral continuinty. -
Cause: Hawaiians believed voayging linked them to Gods, ancestors, and the ocean.
Effect: Navigation became more than survival, It shaped culrtual identity and spiritual practies. -
Cause: European exploration expanded acorss the Pacific Ocean.
Effect: Hawaiians first met Europeans, leading to big change in trade, weapons, and diseases. -
Cause: Hawaiins started using European ships, tools, and maps instead of traitional skills.
Effect: The ancient knowldge of star naviagtion nealry disappeared showing change over time. -
Cause: Hawaiians wanted to revive traditonal naviagtion and porve it still worked.
Efftect: The Hokule'a caneo was built, and voyegs showed the world that Polyneisan wayfinding was accurate and powerful, reconnecting morden Hawaiians with their ancestors. -
Cause: Navogators wanted to show the global importance of traditional wisdom and evirovemntl care.
Effect: The canoe sialed around the world, inspiring pride in Hawaiian culrutre and proving the lasting signifcane of Polyneisan navigation.