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The Sandalwood Trade
Sandalwood is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnaliopsida, order Santalales, family Santalaceae.Sandalwood is a root parasite. It feeds on the nutrients of other plants , which grows around it.Sandalwood oil is used for flavoring alcoholic beverages and even some food items , soaps , detergents.It takes 30 years to harvest a sandalwood tree , althought 60 years is normal.Sandal wood is used to carve things too, for example fans , turtles , tiger , anything -
Young and Davis , his friends
Young and Davis , his friends , Many ships stopped at the islands to rest and to trade for supplies , from such ships came two Englishmen , John Young and Isaac Davis . Kamehameha saw that they were wise and honest and added them to his staff of advisors and warriors . -
Overturn Naha Stone
Overturn Naha Stone , In 1775 high ranking cheifs watched as the young Kamehameha proved that he was very strong . He overturned the Naha stone which weighed nealry five thousand pounds . According to prophecy he who overturned the Naha stone would conquer all of the islands. -
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How Long Kamehameha Ruled As King
As king, Kamehameha took several steps to ensure that the islands remained a united realm even after his death. He unified the legal system and Young and Davis became advisors to Kamehameha and provided him with advanced weapons that helped in combat. Kamehameha was also a religious king and the holder of the war god. When Kamehameha died May 8 or the 14th, 1819, his body was hidden by his trusted friends, Hoapili and Hoʻolulu, in the ancient custom called hūnākele The mana, or power of a person -
Battle of Nuʻuanu
Battle of Nuʻuanu , In April 1795 King Kamehameha and his army sailed to O'ahu and landed on the shore of Wai'alae to Waikiki . They fought their way up Nu'uanu Valley where some O'ahu warriors were pushed over the cliff . King Kamehameha won the battle of Nu'uanu and was ruler of all the islands except Kaua'i. -
The arrival of the first missionaies
The first missionaries to arrive ,14 missionaries and four Hawaiian boys left Boston, funded by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. They arrived in Hawai'i after 164 days. During the time they were at sea, Kamehameha I had died, his son Liholiho had become ruler, and the ancient kapu system had been abolished , with no alternative belief system provided to take its place. -
Kamehameha attempts attack on Kauai
Kamehameha attempts attack on Kauai , The invasion never took place. In the face of the threat of a further invasion, in 1810, Kaumuali‘i decided to peacefully unite with Kamehameha and join the rest of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi until his death, -
Kaumuali’i makes agreement with Kamehameha
Kaumuali’i makes agreement with Kamehameha , In 1810 Kamehameha and Kaumuali'i, ruler of Kauai and Ni'ihau , met in Honolulu , they agreed to placethe two islands under Kamehameha's control and allow Kaumuali'i to continue ruling Kauai and Ni'ihau until his death . Therefore , no battles were fought for Kaua'i. -
Kamehameha , King of the Sandwich Islands
Kamehameha , King of the Sandwich Islands , when it qas known that Kamehameha had died another portrait of the king was revealed . Kamehameha owned the most precious of the long feather cloaks . Its nearly half a million yellow feathers came from eighty thousand mamo birds . -
End of Kapu
After the death of Kamehameha 1 in 1819 and before the arrival of christain missionaries , doubts about the anceint religion led to its abandonment by the regent. Ka'ahumanu and Liholiho (Kamehameha 2) .Traditionallist custodian of the war god , The kapu system was finally destroyed by the Hawaiian Monarchy and the priests & kahunas were overthrown, killed or dispersed, temples were demolished and the kapu’s shattered. This was the end result of the bondage and pain caused by the kapu system an -
Death of LihoLiho
Kamehameha II 1797 – July 14, 1824 was the second king of the Kingdom of Hawaii. His birth name was Liholiho Shortly after the death of Kamehameha in 1819, Liholiho brought both the kapu system and the ritual system to an abrupt end. In 1820, with the advisement of his father's advisor, John Young, Liholiho tentatively allowed the first New England Protestant missionaries to settle in the Island. -
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The Whaling Economy
The whailing trade was a dangerous and uncertain one . It depended upon luck and upon the changing prices for whale oil . But it had a great effect on the life of the islands. -
History of the Hawaiian Monarchy
The Kingdom of Hawaii was established in 1795 with the subjugation of the smaller independent chiefdoms of Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, and Lānaʻi into one government. In 1810 the whole of the islands were finally unified when Kauaʻi and Niʻihau joined the kingdom willingly and without bloodshed or war. The Kingdom was overthrown in January 17, 1893 and the Republic of Hawaii was established, eventually to become the U.S. state of Hawaii. -
How Kamehameha Unified The Hawaiian Islands
Legend has it that the man who moves the Naha Stone would be the one to unite the islands. Many have tried and failed to get the stone to move from its original spot and those who have tried were of high ranking "naha’’ blood line. Kamehameha was of the descent believed Kamehameha was not worthy of attempting to move the stone. Kamehameha ignored all negativity and in the end, not only had he moved the stone but legend says the stone had been been overturned.
