A Brief History of Hawaii

Hawaii was admired for his heavenly islands and its rich history and culture. It continues to attract tourists from around the world to visit it again and again. Its beaches are often hosts international surfing champion. However, there are formidable chain of volcanoes as the Pacific is located in Hawaii is also a rich source of natural resources such as bananas, coconuts and sugar cane products. Besides the beaches, volcanoes and natural, Hawaiiis proud of his people called the Kanaka Maoli. Are you a happy and warm group, which operates the Kingdom before the British colonization.

The archipelago of the Hawaiian islands are inhabited, the most in the world. They are located at a distance of about 2,400 miles from California, 2,400 miles from the Marquesas Islands and 3,800 miles from Japan. The Marquesas Islands is probably the place where the first settlers came to be known as Menehune about 300-400 AD. Later a group of Tahiti displaced settlers from the settlement and overturned the people because the people Tahitian Menehune were bigger and physically stronger.

Hawaii's isolation from the rest of the world is why it was discovered one of the last places to be. E 'was built in 1778 by Captain James Cook discovered the search for the passage between Asia and Alaska. He called them the Sandwich Islands. A lot of Americans and Europeans to explore the islands after Cook.

The first people> Hawaii, which were called Kanaka Maoli lived thousands on a system that was highly organized, self-sufficient, subsistent social. This number is reduced to less difficult than 40,000 people since first contact with explorers and missionaries.

War and disease caused declining numbers. Kanaka Maoli were prepared basically healthy people, but not for diseases such as smallpox. Unless the people were divided as Hawaiian kingdom started beforeFight more aggressively with the availability of weapons such as swords and guns. Although after 32 years after the arrival of Captain James Cook and his crew, weapons received in the United Kingdom of Hawaii Kamehameha I with the help of a powerful army and abroad.

Succeeded by his son named Liholiho Kamehameha II also changed not only politically Hawaii, but also socially. Put the system to break a taboo Kapu called in his government as one of them to eatwith his stepmother and the other women of higher rank. Men and women were forbidden to eat together and became one of Kapus, punishable by death.

Liholiho Hawaii was the successor of Kamehameha III's family continue to carry the torch for the slope and make the political, governance and developmental changes. Gave the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights and the Constitution promulgated in Hawaii, the Government has changed the Hawaiian monarchy by a completefor a constitutional monarchy.

Kamehameha III was followed by two others, the Hawaiian monarchy ruled. Kamehameha V. tries to persuade her daughter like this, ascend the throne when he died. However, she refused and went to a private life with her husband to live English. Despite this rejection, a woman, Queen Lili'uokalani could govern the country. She was the only woman and the last monarch of Hawaii has decided, before the kingdom was overthrown by foreigners.

The AmericanEuropean merchants and traders overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii, where its dominance ended the monarchy in 1893. E 'became an independent republic 1894-1898, when it was annexed to the United States. Later in the year 1959, Hawaii was the 50th U.S. State under President Dwight D.. Eisenhower signed a bill to his government quickly became a modern state under the rule and there was a rapid increase in construction and industry.