Hawai'i unit
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15 Terms
Ali'i
Hawaiian word for chiefs. They were seen as gods themselves
Kapu
The system that governed Hawaiian society. It determined what people could and couldn't do.
Pa'oa
A Tahitian priest who brought the Kapu system to the Hawaiian islands
Marqueseans
Believed to be the earliest people to arrive to the Hawaiian islands from the Marquesas islands
Dormant
A volcano that is no longer active and will not likely erupt again
archipelago
a chain of islands. Hawai'i is an archipelago.
Atoll
a ring-shaped reef, island, or chain of islands formed of coral. Hawaii has many atolls in the archipelago
seamounts
An underwater mountain rising from the ocean floor and having a peaked or flat-topped summit below the surface of the sea.
territory
an area of land under the control of another country or ruler.
annexation
the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation putting the place under control of the annexing power.
Navigation
the science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship. Called wayfinding or path finding by the Polynesians
canoe
called a wa'a in Hawaiian.
Kamehameha
Hawaiian prince; with British backing he created a unified kingdom by 1810; promoted the entry of Western ideas in commerce and social relations. Is the first king of Hawai'i
Pearl Harbor
United States military base on Hawaii that was bombed by Imperial Japan, bringing the United States into World War II. Pearl Harbor was attacked on December 7, 1941.
hot spot theory
the theory that small melting spots in the mantle send magma up through the crust; these spots do not move in relation to the tectonic plate above it and this is how the Hawaiian islands are believed to have been formed.