Plegable Hawaii (Ingles)

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HISTORY: It is the only U.S. state where coffee is harvested. The first colonization of Hawaii came from islands in the South Pacific, probably from the Marquesas. By conquering Hawaii,this settlers-of-foreign origin became "Hawaiian." For about 800 years, these people lived in times in peace and war times, as they were expanding their colonial territories by the eight main islands.In this period, the Hawaiian people developed a complex social structure based on a caste system, governed by a wide range of religious taboos and social type, known as "kapu system." There aredifferent versions of the first Europeans to arrive in Hawaii. The most frequent and documented is that the English explorer James Cook was the first to arrive in 1778. However, according to somehistorians, it is possible that members of the Spanish expedition of Ruy Lopez de Villalobos they did two centuries ago, in 1555.2 There Spanish maps of the time showing some islands in the latitude of Hawaii,but 10 degrees in length further east. In the manuscript, the Island of Maui appears as "The Wretched" and the island of Hawaii appears as "La Mesa". Other islands, much like Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokaiand appear with the name of "The Monks. King James Cook Kalaniopuu receives. Watercolor by John Webber, artist aboard the ship.
When Cook arrived in Hawaii by chance in the eighteenth century, KingKamehameha I, who would go down in history with the name of Kamehameha the Great, had begun its gradual rise to power. After a series of battles that ended in 1795 and the assignment Pacific island ofKauai in 1810, the Hawaiian Islands were united for the first time under a single ruler who died en1819. Kamehameha I founded the House of Kamehameha, the dynasty until 1872. The death of KingKamehameha V, single and without naming an heir, led to the holding of a referendum that gave the election to King Lunalilo against Kalakaua. Finally, the power would end up in the hands of Kalakaua...
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