History 288: Pacific Islands

Instructor: Colette Higgins

Topics: First Contact, Age of European Discovery, Disease & Depopulation, Trade & Social Change, Missionaries & Christianity, Unified Kingdoms

After completing the assigned readings and attending class, you should be able to:

describe:
1. the “discoveries” of European explorers in the Pacific, and the legacy of Captain James Cook.
2. the dynamics of first contact between islanders and Europeans.
3. how and why diseases impacted the populations of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia differently.
4. the varioius forms of trade in the Pacific and how they changed islander societies.
5. the spread of Christianity in the Pacific (i.e. organizations, missionaries, strategies).
6. the kingdoms of Tahiti, Hawaii, and Tonga (i.e. unification, political structures, missionary influence).

know the importance of:
Treaty of Tordesillas
Magellan
Medana & Quiros
Tasman & Roggeveen
Wallis & Bougainville
Captain James Cook
Parkinson, Hodges & Webber
Southern Continent
Northwest Passage
malaria & influenza
the Bounty & Bligh
breadfruit & pork
sandalwood
Boki
James Paddon & John Geddie
beche-de-mer
whaling industry
Melanesian labor trade
Kwaisulia of Malaita
John Williams, John Thomas & Hiram Bingam
Pita Vi & Ta’unga
Bishops Selwyn & Patteson
Florence Young
Pomare II & IV, Kamehameha I & III, Taufa’ahau
Ka’ahumanu I
Aleamotu’a
Battle of Feipi
Kaua’i Rebellion
“holy war” on Tongatapu
Henry Nott & George Pritchard
William Richards & Gerritt Judd
Shirley Baker

define:
Los Ladrones
La Mesa
Terra Australis
Chamorros
“Blackbirding”
“Peruvian slave trade”
Polynesian Labouers Act
Pacific Islanders Protection Act
Protestant Evangelicals
LMS
WMS
ABCFM
Takamoa Theological College
Malua Training Institution
faife’au
“fifth column”
Queensland Kanaka Mission
South Seas Evangelical Mission
Oro, maro, marae
Kukailimoku & Pu’ukohola
diarchy
kuhina nui
Great Mahele
Tu’i Tonga
Tu’i Ha’atakalaua
Tu’i Kanokupolu
hau

locate on a map & know the importance of:
Guam & Marianas
Pitcairn Island
Kosrae & Pohnpei
Mota
Matavai Bay
Tahiti
Vanua Levu
Chuuk
Vava’u
Kealakekua Bay
New Zealand
Erromanga
Aneityum
Ha’apai
Queensland
New South Wales
Samoa
Tongatapu